US ‘warning’ in islands row with Japan irks China
21 Jan 2013 6:39 AM IST
China on Sunday said it is ‘strongly dissatisfied’ with US' veiled warning to Beijing not to challenge Japanese control of disputed islands, as it sent a fresh fleet of surveillance ships to the area at the centre of the bitter territorial row.
Strongly reacting to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments that the US is opposed to any ‘unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration’, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang said that China is ‘strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes’ the remarks.
China expressed strong discontentment on and firmly opposed the comment that the US side made about the Diaoyu Islands, Qin said in a statement here.
China on Saturday also sent a fleet of three Chinese marine surveillance ships which continued to patrol territorial waters of the Islands in East China Sea.
‘We urged the US side to adopt a responsible attitude in regard to the issue of Diaoyu Islands,’ Qin said, referring to the comments made by Clinton. In her media interaction with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington on Saturday, Clinton said that the US wants China and Japan to settle the issue peacefully. ‘We do not want to see any action taken by anyone that could raise tensions or result in miscalculation that would undermine the peace, security and economic growth in this region,’ she said, without directly referring to China.
‘The comments by the US side are ignorant of facts and indiscriminate of rights and wrongs,’ Qin was quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency as saying in the statement.
The US cannot deny its historical responsibility on the issue of the Diaoyu Islands, Qin said.
Strongly reacting to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comments that the US is opposed to any ‘unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration’, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang said that China is ‘strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes’ the remarks.
China expressed strong discontentment on and firmly opposed the comment that the US side made about the Diaoyu Islands, Qin said in a statement here.
China on Saturday also sent a fleet of three Chinese marine surveillance ships which continued to patrol territorial waters of the Islands in East China Sea.
‘We urged the US side to adopt a responsible attitude in regard to the issue of Diaoyu Islands,’ Qin said, referring to the comments made by Clinton. In her media interaction with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington on Saturday, Clinton said that the US wants China and Japan to settle the issue peacefully. ‘We do not want to see any action taken by anyone that could raise tensions or result in miscalculation that would undermine the peace, security and economic growth in this region,’ she said, without directly referring to China.
‘The comments by the US side are ignorant of facts and indiscriminate of rights and wrongs,’ Qin was quoted by state-run Xinhua news agency as saying in the statement.
The US cannot deny its historical responsibility on the issue of the Diaoyu Islands, Qin said.
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