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  • Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:43 UTC

    Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands: Another Falklands?

    Chinese patrol vessels challenging the Japanese

    By Gwynne Dyer - Chinese survey vessels go into the waters around the disputed islands and Japanese patrol ships tail them much too closely. Twice last month Chinese maritime surveillance aircraft flew into the airspace around the Japanese-controlled islands and Tokyo scrambled F-15 fighters to meet them. On the second occasion, China then sent fighters too. Can these people be serious?