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Two more Chinese coast guard vessels enter Japan's waters near Senkakus
The two vessels intruded into the waters near the group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea at around 4:15 a.m. following a similar move Monday by a separate pair of Chinese ships that are still there, according to the Japan Coast Guard.
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China's Haijing 2502 patrol boat sails into waters near the disputed Senkaku islands, in the East China Sea on November 6, 2016. Japan protested to China after four Chinese vessels entered the waters surrounding the islets, called the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, around 10:00 am local time (0100 GMT), according to Japan Coast Guard. (Agence France Presse/Japan Coast Guard)
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wo more Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan's territorial waters near the China-claimed Senkaku Islands on Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to lodge a protest over repeated intrusions following Beijing's enactment of a new law that allows its coast guard to use weapons as the occasion demands.
The two vessels intruded into the waters near the group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea at around 4:15 a.m. following a similar move Monday by a separate pair of Chinese ships that are still there, according to the Japan Coast Guard.
The two new vessels pointed their bows toward a Japanese fishing boat and made a move to approach it, the coast guard said, adding that one of them is equipped with what appears to be an autocannon.
Japan's Foreign Ministry said it lodged a protest, as it did on Monday, with the Chinese government and urged it to withdraw the vessels immediately.
The two vessels left the area around 10:02 a.m. leaving the 9.97-ton fishing boat, with four people on board, under the protection of the Japanese coast guard, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference.
The repeated incursions come after a new law took effect in China at the start of this month explicitly allowing the Chinese coast guard to use weapons against foreign ships that Beijing sees as illegally entering its waters.
It is the seventh time this year that Chinese vessels have entered Japanese waters, according to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture.
