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China and Japan press demands in sea dispute
Reuters - Wednesday, September 15
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By Chris Buckley
BEIJING - China and Japan pressed rival demands over a Chinese boat captain detained in disputed waters, with Tokyo saying the row should not be tied to talks over undersea gas beds claimed by both sides.
The quarrel between Asia's two biggest economies has stirred mutual distrust over sovereignty, national pride and influence and control of potentially valuable undersea energy reserves.
It has festered for more than a week since Japan arrested Zhan Qixiong, captain of a Chinese fishing boat seized after it collided with two Japan Coast Guard ships near small islands in the East China Sea that is claimed by both sides, as well as Taiwan.
Japan has also been preoccupied with domestic political contention and the heady levels of the yen currency. Prime Minister Naoto Kan beat a challenge to his leadership of the ruling Democratic Party on Tuesday.
China has repeatedly demanded that Japan immediately and unconditionally free Zhan, whose 14 crew members were released on Monday. Last week, Beijing bared its anger by cancelling planned talks over disputed gas beds in the East China Sea.
The Global Times, a popular Chinese newspaper, urged Kan to clear the way to ending the row that has renewed focus on competing claims to the East China Sea islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.
"We hope now that Kan does not face the pressure of an election battle, he can act decisively and immediately return the Chinese boat captain, calming the ructions over the Diaoyu Islands," said an editorial in the paper.
The latest meeting between senior diplomats from both sides brought no outward signs that either was giving ground.
In talks with Japan's ambassador in Beijing late on Tuesday, the Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister, Liu Zhenmin, again "demanded that Japan immediately release and return the boat captain," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said .
AVOIDING ESCALATION
The Japanese ambassador, Uichiro Niwa, told Liu that China should rein in actions that could worsen the row.
"We request that the Chinese side implement appropriate measures to avoid escalation of the situation," Niwa told him, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing a statement from the Japanese embassy.
Niwa chided Beijing for "taking unilateral action by deliberately linking the fishing ship collision case with several unrelated issues," Kyodo reported.
Those include China's postponement of the talks aimed at eventually reaching a treaty on joint development of the disputed undersea gas beds.
Chinese authorities have estimated reserves in the contested area of the East China Sea at nearly 17.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and more than 20 million barrels of oil, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
If these numbers are accurate, the gas reserves equal about 20 percent of China's "proved" reserves -- those that can be recovered given current techniques.
In 2008, Beijing and Tokyo agreed to try to solve the feud by jointly developing gas fields. But progress has been halting.
Relations between Beijing and Tokyo have long been dogged by mutual distrust and Chinese bitterness over Japan's occupation of much of China before and during World War Two. Chinese media have warned that public opinion could be inflamed by the boat dispute.
Both sides have made a determined effort to improve ties since 2005 and 2006, when Chinese anger with Japan erupted in sometimes violent protests and the two countries' leaders were barely on speaking terms.
So far, any Chinese protests over the boat dispute have involved only a dozen or so people watched closely by police.
Anonymous Beijing police sources said they were preparing for possible bigger anti-Japan demonstrations on Saturday, the 79th anniversary of an incident marking Japan's deepening occupation of northeast China, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported.
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