I totally agree it is not a sovereignty dispute but saying it is 200 miles away from japan... or 173 NM away is really the farther end of the EEZ that Japan can claim and it seems like it overlaps with Korea's or Russia's as well.
Do you know if China is claiming the EEZ from the Qing border or the current one?
No, unfortunately with a grand gesture that the newly founded PRC "gifts" the last portion of Tumen river end (出海口) to the "brothers" of Koreans, it seals the doorway for China (
for both PRC & ROC actualy, this is BS history to be mentioned, it originating under the chest-thumbing of Soviets, way back when ROC just founded) to have any defacto coast line among "Sea of Japan". This has been discussed in another thread somewhere of South China Sea security thread I believe. - When, may I get everyone's attention here? The NAMING of "
Sea of Japan" took place exactly at that time, when China (Qing) is at her weakest and Japan just beat the crap out of czar and seize power over the whole said sea.
Not if this was within Japan's EEZ.
So you're recognising the US as the world's policeman? Really?
There were others already made interesting comparison for US's understanding of "who to mess", so I would like to say only this - the next door thread, South China Sea thread, people from free world state their demands that even the area is claimed
sovereignty water of China, not merely EEZ, US should have the "right of sea" in despite...
Oh make no mistake, we do recognize
US as the world's policeman all the time back when Internet getting invented... We just having problems with
police brutality.
the only dispute is if they're really within 200km or just right outside. it really seemed like japan had taken a serious and confident shift in antagonizing china for everything except economic. their incompetent government will regret it
I suppose it depends if they were really fishing boats.
Remember the Impeccable within 75 km of Hainan? Yeah foreign militaries can conduct activities "in waters beyond the territorial sea of another state without prior notification or consent"
First, till now Chinese media has reported this incident but no "finger pointing" took place yet.
Second, I didn't read any Chinese official replys yet.
If I am not wrong, the "problem" if any, for the japanese authority to arrest Chinese fishers, is that while not necessary China claims any currently,
japan have no jurisdiction over this place too. It's an overlapping EEZ wather remember? like hell japan can do the arresting at 175km far from its coast.
And Bltizo, that's the point I am talking about, the Impeccable operates at the nose of 75km away, right inside non-overlapping EEZ, for
you-know-what-they-did business; this one, SK, Russian, japanese (maybe even NK) coastal guard can crush each other (if not firing, you know the russians...) and all make their own storey, in a sense. So why a sudden when Japan's nuclear reactors found new historycal high leaks and the "reconstruction" plan found itself in toilet, and when people having problems figure out "who stays who leaves" at japan's power houses struggle - in this sudden, japanese coastal guards made such a patriotic arrest, way beyond where they usually conducting their business...?
Sober people, who lost more? When China have a few (everyone is doing this) illegal fishers behind bars, while SK, NK, Russia having their EEZ
seeing actions of japanese law and order. - My stone into the water.
