New Japanese PM stands firm on island dispute with China

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Incoming Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said December 17 there would be no compromise on Japan’s sovereign claim of Senkaku islands, which China is disputing and calling as Diaoyus. Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party convincingly won the December 16 elections having pushed a hawkish line on the island dispute throughout the campaign, pledging to boost Japan’s control over the strategically important, but uninhabited outcrops in the East China Sea.


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