Additionally, Japan's Senkaku Islands could be a strategic target due to historical animosities and as a means to rally nationalist support within China amid economic downturns. -This approach ...

The Chinese coast guard on Monday set a record for the longest continuous presence inside territorial waters claimed by Japan around the Senkaku Islands, a disputed cluster of islets in the East ...

Four Chinese coast guard ships entered Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands early Friday morning and stayed for 92 hours and 8 minutes, marking the longest intrusion since Japan nationalised ...

Tensions have risen to dangerous levels between Japan and China over a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku by the Japanese and the Diaoyu by the Chinese.

At a regular news conference on Feb. 11, ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated that the “hydrometeorological buoy” had completed its task at the site near the Senkaku Islands, known as the ...

Emboldened by a law allowing wider weapons use, the Chinese Coast Guard has repeatedly and more brazenly tested Japan’s resolve to avoid escalating tensions around the Senkaku Islands in the ...

Chinese government ships continued to sail in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Monday afternoon. After starting before 2 a.m. on Friday, the intrusion ...

The first links round-up of 2014: hot air balloons, local government debt, and Xinhua’s take on the top events of 2013. The East China Sea has already seen a number of surprises in 2014.

Comparative quiet in China’s neighbourhood has given it the chance to rise peacefully. Will it keep flexing its muscles? The US, China and Southeast Asian nations look likely to keep clashing in ...