CHINA-JAPAN: MARITIME TALKS

Quoting government sources Japan's Asahi Shumbun reported on June 13, 2017, that Japan and China will discuss joint resource development in the East China Sea and setting up a hotline to avoid unintended clashes at the senior-level maritime talks to be held as early as late June. It said the officials are expected to discuss establishing a Japan-China air-maritime communication mechanism, a so-called hotline between their defense authorities, as a conflict prevention measure. It is also likely the officials will discuss the resumption of the much-delayed negotiations over concluding a treaty for a joint development project of gas fields in the East China Sea. According to a report by China's Global Times newspaper, an affiliate of the Communist Party’s organ People's Daily, a Chinese official said they are “placing great importance on discussing setting up the hotline for both maritime and air forces (of the two nations), and are hoping their Japanese counterparts will show a flexible attitude.”


(Comment: The maritime talks, which were first held in May 2012, were resumed in 2014. The upcoming meeting will be the first since the one held in China in December.)







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