Japan has formally protested to China, accusing it of exploring disputed oil fields in the East China Sea.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it had protested at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, accusing Beijing of building 17 drilling rigs in an area where the two countries’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) overlap in the East Sea.
“It is extremely unfortunate that the Chinese side is developing unilaterally in these waters,” the ministry said. “The borders of the EEZ and the continental shelf have not yet been defined in the East China Sea,” he said.
Japan considers that the middle line between the coasts of the two countries is the limit of their respective EEZs. But China estimates that the border is no longer close to the coast of Japan, given the continental shelf and other features of the ocean.
In 2008, Tokyo and Beijing agreed to jointly explore oil fields in the disputed areas and suspend unilateral exploration. However, negotiations to determine how to implement this agreement were suspended two and a half years later and have not been resumed since.
Source: Capital
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