Japan protests Chinese drilling rig in East China Sea

Japan has lodged a protest after China installed a mobile offshore drilling rig on its side of the median line in the East China Sea, suspecting that it is conducting exploratory drilling for a natural gas field, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. The protest, lodged Friday, followed the Japanese Defense Ministry’s discovery in late June that the rig had been fixed to the seabed about 400 kilometers northwest of Okinawa’s main island, the sources said. Japan and China have overlapping claims in the East China Sea. Tokyo regards the median line as the de facto boundary between the […]... Keep on reading: Japan protests Chinese drilling rig in East China Sea