China and Japan have repeatedly faced off around the Japan-administered islands, which Beijing calls Diaoyu and Tokyo calls the Senkaku.
A China coast guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a “rights enforcement patrol,” the coast guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions with Japan over its prime minister’s remarks about Taiwan.
A diplomatic spat between China and Japan has intensified since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Nov. 7 that a hypothetical Chinese attack on democratically ruled Taiwan could trigger a military response from Tokyo.
The remarks sparked an angry response from Beijing, which has signaled that it expects Takaichi to retract them in some fashion.
China is such a dick. I know, I know, a lot of countries are dicks, I get that. But good Buddha they go out of their way to antagonize. And then they respond super belligerently in an official response to questions about said dickishness.
China’s got that colonizer stink
