Tokyo has lodged a protest with Beijing over new exploration activities at a gas field in a contested area of the East China Sea, the Japanese government said Monday.
A Chinese drill ship started operations believed to involve the sinking of a test borehole aimed at developing resources, near a Tokyo-proposed median line separating the countries’ exclusive economic zones in mid-November, Japanese officials said.
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