あいかわらず、根拠の無い領海権を主張する中国

あいかわらず、根拠の無い領海権を主張する中国

South Korea's presidential office rebuked  

China's criticism  of its decision to deploy

an advanced  anti-missile  defense, urging Beijing to

instead play a  stronger role against North Korea's

provocations on  the peninsula.

The statement by  President Park Geun-hye's office

marked an  escalation  of  diplomatic tensions  between

South Korea  and  China,  which has sharply criticized

Seoul's move to  host  a  Terminal High Altitude Area

Defence (THAAD)unit  with  the U.S. military.

Park's senior  press  secretary, KimSung-woo, said in

the statement  recent  commentary  carried by China's

state media  was  "out of place"  in blaming South Korea

for raising  tension on the Korean peninsula with the move

to deploy a THAAD  unit.

"Rather than taking issue with our  purely defensive

action,  China should raise issue in a stronger manner

with North Korea  which is breaking peace and stability

on the Korean  peninsula and  Northeast by conducting

four  nuclear  tests  and,  just  this year, launching  more

than  10  ballistic  missiles,"  it said.

    Japanese people believe  that  China is  breaking  peace

in  the Spratlys  in  the  South China Sea.

When President  Xi  Jinping  of  China visited  President

Obama  at  the White  House  last  September,  he startled

many  with reassuring words about his intentions for

the Spratly  Islands, a contested area where the Chinese

government  has  been piling dredged sand and concrete

atop  reefs for  the  past  few years  and  building housing

and runways  on  them. “China does not intend to

pursue  militarization,”  Mr. Xi said,   referring  to the

area  as  the Nansha  Islands,  a Chinese name for what

most  of  the  rest  of   the world  calls the Spratlys  in the

South China Sea.

   The  present  condition  of the Spratlys in the South

China Sea  is  completely different from  what Mr.Xi

has said. 

   Japanese  people  believe  that  Mr. Xi  is a liar.

A Chinese fishing boat collided with a  Greece-flagged

merchant ship near Senkaku Islands.  Japanese coast

guard  rescued  six Chinese crew members and  was

searching  for  eight missing  after the fishing boat sank.

Tokyo informed  Beijing  of  the incident and

the Chinese  side  “expressed  appreciation”  for the

operation, the  Foreign Ministry said  in  a statement.

On  Wednesday,  the  U.S.  State  Department

restated  that  the  Senkaku  Islands  fall under

Washington’s  treaty  of mutual defense  with Tokyo.

“We are  in  close  communication  with the Japanese

as  allies  and  are  also  concerned  about the increase

of  Chinese  coast  guard  vessels  in  the vicinity  of

the  islands.”  “We oppose any unilateral action

that  seeks to  undermine Japan’s administration

of  the  Senkaku  Islands,”   State Department

Spokeswoman  Elizabeth  Trudeau  said.