Ministry of National Defense: Chinese ships are completely legitimate and legal

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28 (Reporter Zhang Yan and Li Xiaoming) Wu Qian, director of the Ministry of National Defense News and spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, said on the 28th that the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islands are China's inherent territories, and China's will to safeguard national sovereigntyFirmly.The Chinese ship's activities in the Diaoyu Islands' waters are completely legitimate, and the Japanese side has no right to say three.We ask the Japanese side to stop all provocative actions, and to avoid different incidents at sea through dialogue and negotiation.

At the regular press conference on that day, a reporter asked that according to reports, the Chinese naval ships have recently entered the Diaoyu Islands to navigate. The Japanese Defense Minister said that China ’s move is a unilateral exacerbation of the tension.The Ministry of Defense will maintain normalized alert monitoring.It is also reported that the Raihai Security Department and the Maritime Self -Defense Force recently conducted joint training in the waters east of the East Island of Tokyo to respond to the "gray situation" of Chinese warships approaching the Diaoyu Islands.what opinions do the Chinese have on this issue?Wu Qian made the above statement when answering.

[Editor in charge: Zhou Chuqing]

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