China began to implement the “Marine Police Law” on the first of this month, allowing the Chinese Marine Police Bureau to use weapons against foreign vessels, and the country dispatched four marine police vessels to sail in the waters around the Diaoyutai Islands at 6:00 a.m. today, two of which entered the waters of Diaoyutai for the first Time since the implementation of China’s “Marine Police Law”. The first time since the implementation of the “Maritime Police Law”. In response, The Japanese Maritime Safety Headquarters sent patrol ships to the alert, and expressed strong warnings to the Chinese ships in question, asking them to leave immediately.
According to NHK, four Chinese Coast Guard vessels were sailing in the waters around the Diaoyutai Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands) before 5:00 a.m. this morning, and two of them entered the waters of the Diaoyutai Islands and tried to approach Japanese fishing boats; in response, the Japan Coast Guard Headquarters sent its patrol vessels to be on guard and asked the Chinese vessels to leave.
According to the Maritime Security Headquarters of the 11th Administrative Region, two of the four Chinese maritime police vessels sailing around the Diaoyutai Islands entered the waters of the southern islets of the Diaoyutai Islands before 5:00 a.m. The Headquarters sent its patrol vessels to warn them to leave, and between 9:00 a.m. and about 12:00 p.m., the two Chinese maritime police vessels moved to the southern side of the Diaoyutai Islands and sailed about 2 meters away.
In response, the Security Headquarters said it would continue to be vigilant, and the Japanese government converted the “Information Liaison Office” of the Crisis Management Center at the Prime Minister’s residence into the “Residence Countermeasures Office” to continue to collect relevant information and vigilance to monitor the movement of events.
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