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China suspects 4 Japanese entered military zone
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September 24, 2010, Friday
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CHINA is investigating four Japanese suspected of entering a military zone without authorization and illegally videotaping military targets in northern Hebei Province.
The state security authorities in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, have taken measures against the four.
"Currently, the case is being investigated," the state security authorities in Shijiazhuang said in a statement yesterday.
No further details were provided.
China-Japan relations are at their worst in several years after Japan arrested a Chinese fishing boat captain whose trawler collided earlier this month with two Japanese patrol boats near China's Diaoyu Islands.
China has cancelled high-level contacts and exchange visits by Japanese students in protest over the detention.
On Tuesday, Premier Wen Jiabao threatened further action against Japan if it does not immediately release the captain. Japan "bears full responsibility for the situation, and it will bear all consequences," Wen told a gathering of overseas Chinese in New York, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website.
Emotions have run high over the issue in China, where memories of Japan's brutal World War II occupation stoke public anger.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official confirmed four people were being investigated but did not give details. Kyodo news agency said the four were in the construction business.
Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara earlier brought up the boat issue in his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in New York City.
"The secretary's response was just to encourage dialogue and hope that the issue can be resolved soon," Reuters quoted Crowley as saying. Clinton and Maehara are in New York for the UN General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders.
Earlier yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce denied a report by the New York Times that China had banned shipments of rare earth minerals to Japan.
Chen Rongkai, a ministry spokesman, denied that China had ordered a ban specifically on exports of rare earth elements to Japan.
"I don't know where The New York Times got that information, but we did not issue any ban of that sort," he said.
Both Chinese and Japanese rare earth traders contacted by Reuters said they were unaware of any ban, but that quotas for exports of the minerals had already been used up, slowing trade.
The state security authorities in Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei, have taken measures against the four.
"Currently, the case is being investigated," the state security authorities in Shijiazhuang said in a statement yesterday.
No further details were provided.
China-Japan relations are at their worst in several years after Japan arrested a Chinese fishing boat captain whose trawler collided earlier this month with two Japanese patrol boats near China's Diaoyu Islands.
China has cancelled high-level contacts and exchange visits by Japanese students in protest over the detention.
On Tuesday, Premier Wen Jiabao threatened further action against Japan if it does not immediately release the captain. Japan "bears full responsibility for the situation, and it will bear all consequences," Wen told a gathering of overseas Chinese in New York, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry's website.
Emotions have run high over the issue in China, where memories of Japan's brutal World War II occupation stoke public anger.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official confirmed four people were being investigated but did not give details. Kyodo news agency said the four were in the construction business.
Japanese Foreign Minister Maehara earlier brought up the boat issue in his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in New York City.
"The secretary's response was just to encourage dialogue and hope that the issue can be resolved soon," Reuters quoted Crowley as saying. Clinton and Maehara are in New York for the UN General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders.
Earlier yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce denied a report by the New York Times that China had banned shipments of rare earth minerals to Japan.
Chen Rongkai, a ministry spokesman, denied that China had ordered a ban specifically on exports of rare earth elements to Japan.
"I don't know where The New York Times got that information, but we did not issue any ban of that sort," he said.
Both Chinese and Japanese rare earth traders contacted by Reuters said they were unaware of any ban, but that quotas for exports of the minerals had already been used up, slowing trade.
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