8/11/2005

China, that looks sly to Japan.

Did you read the article in BBC, which reported the Japanese protest against China's move to get oil gas buried in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, though the place where it began to dig it is within the EEZ of China. We have the rule that an exclusive economic zone should be within 370 km from the mainland of a country. But China stated it is not from the mainland but from the continental shelf to justify siphon the gas there. Moreover, after the Japanese protest, China told Japan to work together. Japan refused its offer because it is buried under the Japanese EEZ, and permitted a Japanese company to get the gas; then, China began to say that Japan was so agressive.

Japan has been avoiding exploring such area because it didn't want any trouble with China. Then, China began to do that. In this kind of case, many of Japanese think China should not do that if it doesn't want any trouble with Japan. But I know this kind of thinking looks a little bit abstinent to some of you. Do you think the Chinese move can be OK?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

China has found a good partner that would offer to China good updated weapons, Russia, that wanted money because it had been poor. Anyway, this was a good deal to the two countries each.