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Publication Date : 18-09-2014

Japan claims that more Chinese fishing boats have intruded into its territory

The number of intrusions into Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture by Chinese fishing boats has been rapidly increasing since the start of this year, suggesting a change in Chinas strategy.

Two years have passed since Japans nationalisation of the Senkaku Islands. Chinese government vessels, which carry similar equipment to Japan Coast Guard (JCG) patrol vessels, have been less active.

But the number of intrusions into territorial waters by Chinese fishing boats in 2014 has increased more than 25-fold compared with that of 2011, before the nationalisation of the islands.

Japanese authorities assume that Beijing intends to make its insistence that the islands are part of Chinas territory an established fact, by continuing illegal fishing activities.

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Senkakus see rise in Chinas fishing forays