TOKYO – Just days ago, Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships faced off – again – over rocky islets in the East China Sea that each nation claims as its own.
Called the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China, the Nov. 1 incident was a repeat of a similar incident on Oct. 17.
To ensure that this dispute and others like it do not escalate due to a lack of communications, Toyko and Beijing