China rekindles row over disputed islands

China's declared air control zone over disputed islands has tested America's resolves.

The Chinese government has triggered a diplomatic crisis by including a chain of disputed islands that lie between it and Japan in a new air control zone'.

While the area known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China is uninhabited, this is more than just a symbolic issue, since ownership of the islands also entails control of the adjoining territorial waters and their natural resources.

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