CHINA & JAPAN: China has sovereignty over disputed gas field, Yang tells Okada

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi reiterated to his Japanese counterpart Katsuya Okada on Sunday that Beijing has sovereignty over a disputed gas field it is developing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said Monday. Okada told Yang during a meeting in Tokyo that Japan will take countermeasures if China begins gas production in the Chunxiao gas field, arguing that Japan will regard such action as a violation of a 2008 agreement to jointly explore gas resources in the East China Sea. (AP)

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