Japanese envoy denounces Beijing’s ‘dangerous behavior’ in South China Sea | Global News

Japanese envoy denounces Beijing’s ‘dangerous behavior’ in South China Sea

By: - Reporter / @BPinlacINQ
/ 08:26 PM July 06, 2023

HARASSMENT ON HIGH SEAS This photo taken on April 23, 2023, shows the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Malapascua (left) maneuvering as a Chinese coast guard ship cuts its path at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea. —AFP

HARASSMENT ON HIGH SEAS  – This photo taken on April 23, 2023, shows the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Malapascua (left) maneuvering as a Chinese coast guard ship cuts its path
at Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea. —AFP

MANILA, Philippines — Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko on Thursday criticized Beijing’s “dangerous behavior” in the South China Sea. 

Koshikawa issued the statement a week after China Coast Guard ships maneuvered dangerously close to two Philippine Coast Guard vessels supporting a supply mission in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. 

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“As China’s unilateral actions such as repeated intrusions into Japan’s waters around the Senkaku Islands in the [East China Sea], China’s dangerous behavior in the South China Sea in defiance of the 2016 arbitration award is a grave concern for regional peace and stability,” Koshikawa said in a social media post. 

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The arbitral ruling of the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration rejected Beijing’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea, including the West Philippine Sea.

China, however, has repeatedly refused to recognize the historic decision.

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Japan also has its own maritime dispute with China over the uninhabited islets in the East China Sea that Tokyo refers to as Senkakus and Beijing calls the Diaoyu. 

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