Christopher Bodeen

China plans to send surveyors to disputed islands

BEIJING, March 12: China will send a team at an “appropriate time” to survey islands at the heart of an increasingly heated dispute with Japan, a Chinese official said on Tuesday in Beijing’s clearest statement yet Published 13 Mar, 2013 03:56am

China submits oceanic claims to UN

BEIJING: China provided the United Nations with detailed claims to waters in the East China Sea on Friday, apparently padding out its legal argument in an ongoing territorial dispute with Japan. Published 15 Dec, 2012 03:25am