CHINA: Authorities stop anti-Japan protest in Beijing as Chinese fishing boats return from disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands area

Record ID: 1963088

  • Title: CHINA: Authorities stop anti-Japan protest in Beijing as Chinese fishing boats return from disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands area
  • Date: 20th September 2012
  • Summary: XIANGZHI, FUJIAN PROVINCE, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 18, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA) FISHING BOATS IN PORT FISHERMEN STANDING NEXT TO BOATS VARIOUS OF FISHERMEN PLACING CONTAINERS OF FISH ON BACK OF VEHICLE VARIOUS OF FISHERMEN HANDING DOWN NETS FROM BOAT FISHERMAN HANDLING NET FISHERMAN STANDING ON MOORED BOAT ANCHOR AND BOATS ON JETTY VARIOUS OF BOATS MOVING ON WATER VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF OFFICE OF THE XIANGZHI FISHING PORT POLICE OFFICE (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) OFFICIAL FROM THE VESSEL MANAGEMENT STATION OF XIANGZHI FISHING PORT GAO BO, SAYING: (PLEASE NOTE: PART OF SOUNDBITE IS OVERLAID WITH IMAGES OF COMPUTER SCREEN) "As we can see on the screen, many fishing vessels from Fujian have begun operations near the Diaoyu Islands, and there are also a number of vessels heading in the direction of the Diaoyu islands, preparing to fish at the Mindong and Minwai fisheries." VARIOUS OF COMPUTER SCREEN SHOWING MAP POSITION OF FISHING BOATS OFF THE COAST OF CHINA AND AROUND THE DIAOYU ISLANDS FISHING BOATS IN HARBOUR FISHING BOAT MOVING ON WATER
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  • Location: China
  • Country: China
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA2D7R4YNXT05552AO0CT7F69SF
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: China moved quickly on Wednesday (September 19) to snuff out more anti-Japan protests after days of angry demonstrations over a territorial dispute forced Japanese businesses to shut their doors and threatened an economic backlash.
    Riot police with barricades guarded the entrance to the Japanese embassy and vehicles passed freely after the road was closed to traffic on Sunday (September 16).
    Police lining the street moved one lone protester, as he shouted slogans, such as 'Down with little Japan".
    Anti-Japan protests have erupted in cities across China, triggered by the dispute over the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, which potentially could contain potentially large gas reserves.
    Many Japanese shops and restaurants remained closed after hundreds of stores were targeted by protesters on Tuesday (September 18), hurling bottles, waving Chinese flags and chanting anti-Japan slogans. Tuesday was especially significant as China marked the day Japan began its 1931 occupation of parts of the mainland.
    Mr. Zhou, a sixty-one-year-old Beijing resident, said a week of protests was enough, especially after the violence seen in some cities.
    "Everything comes in phases. You shouldn't disturb people's lives. In the end, they've already expressed your patriotism, and as we say: "If you go too far, you've stepped out of line," he said.
    But Chen Jie who works in a residential compound, wanted the protests to continue.
    "I don't think that just because we've passed September 18th, the sensitive day yesterday, you should stop. I personally feel that we need to organise more demonstrations," he said.
    Relations between Asia's two biggest economies have faltered badly, with emotions also running high out at sea where two Japanese activists landed on one of the islands, leading Beijing to lodge a complaint with Tokyo.
    Japan's coastguard said three Chinese maritime surveillance ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters around the islets on Tuesday (September 18), although they and seven other nearby ships had left the area by late evening.
    Chinese broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday that some fishing boats that had been to the area had now returned to a port in Fujian, eastern China, loaded up with fish.
    A flotilla of around 1,000 Chinese fishing boats was also reported by Chinese and Japanese media to have headed to the area.
    "As we can see on the screen, many fishing vessels from Fujian have begun operation near the Diaoyu Islands, and there are also a number of vessels heading in the direction of the Diaoyu islands, preparing to fish at the Mindong and Minwai fisheries," Gao Bo, an official from the vessel management station of Xiangzhi fishing port told CCTV.
    Chinese fishing boats go to the waters around the islands to fish around this time each year and CCTV said that of the 700-plus fishing boats at the port of Xiangzhi, over 100 large ones operate in the waters around the disputed islands.
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