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China's 'little green boats' have Japan on the alert

News, Eli Lake, Published on 02/09/2016

» In early August, Japan's Coast Guard witnessed an unconventional Chinese assault on its territorial waters. According to Japanese officials I met with last week, at least 300 Chinese "fishing vessels" began incursions into the exclusive economic zone around the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, territory administered by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan as well.