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"Provocative" Japanese drilling condemned
By Hu Xiao and Cao Desheng (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-16 07:10
Cui reiterated that China has never recognized the so-called "middle line"
and will never recognize it.
The sea area to the east of the "middle line" is under dispute, and Japan is
not entitled to take unilateral action there. China will firmly oppose and never
accept any Japanese attempts to impose unilateral action on China, Cui stressed.
He said China and Japan should handle their disputes reasonably and explore
resolutions through dialogues and consultations on an equal footing.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said in April that Japan and China
should solve the oil and gas drilling dispute in the East China Sea through
dialogue.
"We need to continue talks from a big point of view, without inflaming
conflicts," Kyodo News quoted Koizumi as saying.
Japan has unilaterally demarcated a controversial exclusive economic zone
along the "middle line."
China holds the demarcation should be determined by the continental shelf on
China's side, over which China claims exclusive rights.
Japan has previously opposed China's exploration of oil and gas at locations
within Chinese territory, worried that China's Chunxiao oil and gas field in the
East China Sea could affect Japan's own reserves.
Although the Chunxiao field is on the Chinese side of the "demarcation line,"
Nakagawa claims that it will enable the Chinese to siphon off Japan's share of
the resource deposits.
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