{"id":2661,"date":"2013-07-01T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:54:21","slug":"three-chinese-ships-in-disputed-waters-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Three Chinese ships in disputed waters of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TOKYO, June 14.<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 Three Chinese government ships sailed into waters around disputed islands controlled by Tokyo on Friday, for the first time since late May, Japan\u2019s coastguard said.   <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese maritime surveillance vessels were spotted inside the 12-nautical-mile zone off the Senkaku islands, which China calls the Diaoyus, in the East China Sea shortly before 9:30 am (0030 GMT), the coastguard said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese government ships have frequently plied the contiguous waters \u2014 a zone outside territorial waters \u2014 near the disputed islands, but it was the first time they had entered Japanese-controlled waters since May 26, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n<p>Ships from the two sides have been involved in a chronic stand-off as Beijing and Tokyo jostle over ownership of the strategically important and resource-rich islands.<\/p>\n<p>A territorial row that dates back four decades reignited last September when Tokyo nationalised three islands in the chain, in what it said was a mere administrative change of ownership.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/source\/agence-france-presse\">Agence France Presse<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, June 14. \u2014 Three Chinese government ships sailed into waters around disputed islands controlled by Tokyo on Friday, for the first time since late May, Japan\u2019s coastguard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}