Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said publicly on Tuesday during a meeting with Joseph Young, chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Japan, that Japan “has great concern and must not accept” the Maritime Police Law, which allows the Chinese Communist Party to use weapons against foreign ships.
Japan’s Kyodo News Agency noted that The Japanese defense minister’s public statement sent a signal to the international community while restraining the Chinese Communist Party.
The report said that in response to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s clear statement at the House Budget Committee recently, “It is totally unacceptable (for China) to increase tensions in the East and South China Seas by applying (the maritime police law).” For his part, Nobuo Kishi said that it is not the application of the Maritime Police Law, but the intolerability of the implementation of the law. With this move, the Japanese side can be said to have intensified its criticism.
Also on Tuesday, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a joint meeting of the diplomatic and defense panels and others to discuss the issue of Chinese Coast Guard Bureau vessels sailing into Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands (known in China as the Diaoyu Islands). In view of the implementation of the Marine Police Act, which allows the Chinese side to use weapons, on the first of this month, members of the meeting have expressed their opinions and asked the government to launch a clear response through diplomatic publicity and improvement of the law.
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