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Japan's unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security. On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The vessel then rammed two patrol boats, escalating a decades-long territorial feud. Japan responded by arresting the captain, Zhan Qixiong, under domestic law, a move Beijing considered an unacceptable…
Japan’s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan's economic security. On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan's coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The vessel then rammed two patrol boats, escalating a decades-long territorial feud. Japan responded by arresting the captain, Zhan Qixiong, under domestic law, a move Beijing considered an unacceptable …
As the Far East rages, tensions between China and Japan have reached a dramatic boiling point not seen in decades. It all began with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s statements that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be an “existential crisis” for Japan, a statement that sparked outrage in Beijing. The Chinese response was sharp and swift: blunt diplomatic threats from the Chinese consul general in Osaka, large-scale live-fire military exercis…
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