Kishida Raps China For Threatening Japan's Sovereignty

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has criticized China for infringing on his country’s sovereignty in the East China Sea during a summit in Cambodia, Jiji Press reported.

Photo Insert: Kishida during a meeting with US President Joe Biden

China has been continuing and strengthening activity that infringes on Japan’s sovereignty in the East China Sea, Kishida said at the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Kishida also said that peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is important in terms of regional security, apparently referring to Beijing’s military pressure on Taiwan.

Japan had been clashing with Chiona’s Coast Guard and fisheries militia around the inhabited Senkaku Islands, which are occupied by Japanese citizens and patrolled by Japan’s Coast Guard.

China claims the islands, just as it claims scores of islets, reefs, shoals and submerged features in the Spratlys and Parcels Island in the South China Sea (SCS).

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