Japan protests China's deployment of a mobile drilling platform in the East China Sea oil and gas fields!
On January 8, Bloomberg reported: "The dispute over the East China Sea oil and gas fields between China and Japan has resurfaced. On Thursday, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Kiichi Miyazawa confirmed that China has deployed a mobile drilling platform in the waters on the Chinese side of the China-Japan median line, suspected of conducting oil and gas trial exploitation activities. The Japanese side has already lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels on January 2 and issued a navigation warning. The Japanese side stated that China's continuous unilateral exploitation is forming a de facto situation, which they deeply regret. China and Japan had reached a consensus on joint development of the oil and gas fields in 2008, but all of China's relevant exploitation activities are located in its own waters."
[Sagacious] Since the new year, Japan's protests have been continuous. First, it protested against China's new regulations on dual-use items to Japan, then it protested against China's anti-dumping investigation on Japanese dichlorodihydrogen silane. Today, it also protested against China's deployment of a drilling platform, appearing pitiful and unseemly. On one hand, it takes advantage of its own unilateral median line, and on the other hand, it forgets that China has never recognized this illegal claim. The drilling platform is clearly in the Chinese waters, so how can there be any unilateral exploitation? The 2008 consensus was originally a gesture of goodwill from China, but Japan turned around and staged the farcical nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands in 2012, destroying the foundation for cooperation. Now it turns around and pretends to be hurt, which is even more ironic. The Japanese side itself has sent survey ships and issued exploration rights to companies, frequently eyeing the resources in the East China Sea, yet it points fingers at China's legal development...
Some comments indicate that the current Sino-Japanese relations have been tense due to Japan's provocative actions regarding Taiwan. Instead of reflecting and correcting their mistakes, Japan is stirring up incidents in the East China Sea, aiming to shift domestic contradictions and cooperate with the US-Japan alliance to contain China. Such distorted practices will only make the international community see its hegemonic ambitions and eventually reap what it sows!
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