DTN News - INDIA NEWS: Indian Fishermen Shot By Italian Marines Mistook For Pirates At Sea Off Coast of Kerala

DTN News  - INDIA NEWS: Indian Fishermen Shot By Italian Marines Mistook For Pirates At Sea Off Coast of Kerala
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 (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - February 25, 2012: India detained Italian marines for shooting two Indian fishermen to death in Kochi, India, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Latorre Massimiliano  and Salvatore Girone, members of the navy security team (marines) of  Napoli registered Italian merchant vessel Enrica Lexie, are taken for interrogation by the Indian police in the southern Indian city of Kochi February 19, 2012. 

Two fishermen were killed when a navy security team (marines) on an Italian merchant vessel opened fire on a boat it mistook for pirates at sea off the coast of Kerala, officials said on Thursday. A case of murder has been registered against the crew, said a senior official at Neendakara Coastal police station, where surviving fishermen sought help.

Italy Asks for marines’ Release.

Italian diplomats on Thursday asked a court to release two Italian marines charged with killing two Indian fishermen. The Indian police say the marines shot at an unarmed fishing boat last week as the oil tanker they were on, the Enrica Lexie, passed the Indian coast. Italian diplomats say the marines, who were acting as guards on the Italian-flagged merchant ship, fired only warning shots and did so in international waters. Indian officials have said the dead fishermen are Indian, which gives them jurisdiction to prosecute the case.

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DTN News - SOUTH KOREAN NEWS: South Korea Says 1 of 2 Coast Guard Officers Stabbed By Chinese Captain Dies

DTN News - SOUTH KOREAN NEWS: South Korea Says 1 of 2 Coast Guard Officers Stabbed By Chinese Captain Dies

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / SEOUL, South Korea - December 12, 2011: A Chinese fishing boat captain stabbed two South Korean coast guard officers Monday, killing one and injuring the other, after his boat was stopped for illegally fishing in South Korean waters, officials said.

The Chinese captain pulled an unidentified weapon after officers from two coast guard ships boarded the fishing boat over suspicions that it was illegally operating in Yellow

Sea waters rich in blue crabs, anchovies and croaker, coast guard spokesman Kim Dong-jin said.

A South Korean officer stabbed in the side was taken by helicopter to a hospital in the port city of Incheon but later died, Kim said. Also brought to the hospital were an officer stabbed in the abdomen, who was to undergo surgery, and the Chinese captain, who had minor injuries from the fight, he said.

South Korea’s Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador in Seoul later Monday and lodged a strong protest over the fight. Foreign Ministry officials said they had asked the ambassador last Thursday to make efforts to prevent illegal Chinese fishing from undermining bilateral ties.

Last week, South Korean authorities also raised fines levied on foreign fishing vessels caught operating in Seoul’s self-declared exclusive economic zone, an apparent reflection of the government’s impatience with a rising number of Chinese boats found fishing in the waters.

“Eradicating Chinese boats’ illegal fishing in our waters is a most urgent task to safeguard our fishermen and fisheries resources,” South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said in a recent editorial. “The government should mobilize every possible means and continue the crackdown on illegal fishing.”

Monday’s fighting isn’t likely to undermine overall ties, although Seoul is expected to pressure Beijing harder over illegal fishing activities, said Lee Chang-hyung of Seoul’s government-affiliated Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.

Besides the captain, eight other Chinese fishermen on the boat were arrested and taken to Incheon, the coast guard said in a statement.

The coast guard says it has seized about 470 Chinese ships for illegal fishing in the Yellow Sea so far this year, up from 370 last year. The coast guard usually releases the ships after a fine is paid, though violence occasionally occurs.

Chinese fishing fleets have been going farther afield to feed growing domestic demand for seafood.

With some 300,000 fishing vessels and 8 million fishermen, the Chinese fishing industry is by far the world’s largest, producing an annual catch in excess 17 million tons. But waters close to China’s shores have been yielding decreasing catches, forcing the Chinese fleet to venture farther away.

In 2008, one South Korean coast guard officer was killed and six others injured in a fight with Chinese fishermen in South Korean waters. Last year, a collision between a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese coast guard vessels led to a diplomatic spat between the countries over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Starting in 2009, China’s fishing fleet has also appeared to be acting in concert with the nation’s perceived intention to press forward with claims in disputed maritime areas — 2009 was the deadline imposed by a U.N. treaty for continental seabed contestants to file formal undertakings — and by a sense that the financial crisis in the West had opened the door to more assertive Chinese behavior in areas it had long regarded as falling within its legitimate sphere of influence.

In March of that year several Chinese fishing trawlers accompanied by two Chinese fisheries enforcement ships and at least one Chinese naval vessel harassed an American surveillance ship 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of China’s Hainan island.

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Associated Press writer Peter Enav in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this report.

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DTN News: Japan Hopes For U.S. Help In Row With China

DTN News: Japan Hopes For U.S. Help In Row With China

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(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - November 13, 2010: The key topic of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit may be trade, but on the sidelines, host nation Japan is stressing the need for U.S. support in its strained relations with China.

And analysts say while the U.S. attempts to play peacemaker, it may see its future with China in Japan's current relationship with the rising superpower.

Japan's prime minister, briefing reporters about his meeting with the U.S. president on Saturday, thanked Barack Obama for his support in territorial disputes with Russia and China.

The disputes with both countries surround islands that Japan claims as sovereign territory, and began with a September skirmish at sea with China.

A Chinese fishing crew collided with two Japan coast guard vessels near islands in the East China Sea. Japan and China both claim the island as their territory. The Japanese coast guard detained the Chinese crew and captain, sparking an international dispute between the two countries and dragging relations to new lows.

China, flexing its growing economic muscle in the region, canceled high level ministerial meetings and, according to multiple Japanese importers, cut off supply of rare earth materials Japan relies on to produce high tech products. Thousands of Chinese tourists canceled vacations to Japan, an increasingly important source of income for Japan's tourism trade.

Japan's prosecutors eventually released the Chinese crew and captain, citing concerns over more diplomatic fallout with China.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's administration stressed the need to move forward with an important economic powerhouse in the region, a nation Japan's economy relies on more and more.

China is Japan's number one trading partner.

Weeks later, Russia's president visited another set of disputed islands between Japan and Russia, seen largely as Russia taking an opportunity to take a stand against a weakened Japanese prime minister.

Japan's prime minister has seen his approval ratings plummet in the wake of the disputes with China and Russia.

Tokyo based analyst Keith Henry of the Asia Institute says there are lessons learned by Kan's government, but there is also a lesson in this dispute for Obama.

"I think the U.S. will find an economic partner, which China is, that will be a little less willing to bend to the will of the U.S. In fact, they're going to expect the U.S. to bend to their will," Henry said.

Japan serves as an example of how not to conduct diplomacy with China, increasingly muscling into prominence in the world economy, according to Henry.

"I think what they (the United States) can learn is, don't apologize. Be as adamant and confident in terms of the national self interests of the U.S. and approach the Chinese in an equally aggressive way. Failure to do so will put the U.S. in a position that Japan is finding itself with China."

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DTN News: China Hits Back At Japan After Boat Captain Freed

DTN News: China Hits Back At Japan After Boat Captain Freed

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(NSI News Source Info) TOKYO/BEIJING - September 25, 2010: China on Saturday demanded Japan apologize for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing few outward signs of softening in a dispute between the two Asian economic powers after Japan gave ground and released him. The fishing trawler captain, Zhan Qixiong, flew out of Japan on a chartered plane that took him to the coastal Chinese city of Fuzhou, but Beijing's response suggested it still harbored some rancor. The release followed the detention of four Japanese nationals on suspicion of violating Chinese law regarding the protection of military facilities, though Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku has denied a link between the two incidents. China's Foreign Ministry said Beijing was angry at the detention of the captain, arrested by Japan over two weeks ago after his trawler collided with two Japanese patrol boats in waters near islands that both sides claim. "This was an action that gravely violated Chinese sovereignty and the human rights of a Chinese citizen, and the Chinese government strongly protests," said a ministry statement issued after Zhan flew back to China. China said its claim to the islands -- which it calls the Diaoyu and Japan calls the Senkaku -- was "indisputable." "It is unlawful and invalid for Japan to detain and investigate the boat captain and to take any legal measures against him," said the statement said, which was issued on the Ministry's website (www.mfa.gov.cn). "Japan must offer China an apology and compensation over this incident." It did not specify what compensation it wanted. China's statement also said, however, that the two countries should solve their disputes through dialogue. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan also said it was time for Asia's two biggest economies to put relations back on a steady footing. "I believe it is necessary for Japan and China to handle matters calmly," he said in New York, where he attended the U.N. General Assembly. The dispute has underscored the brittleness of ties long troubled by Chinese memories of Japanese wartime occupation and territorial disputes over parts of the East China Sea that could hold rich reserves of gas. Some Japanese newspapers decried Zhan's release as a backdown that would encourage Chinese assertiveness. "There is a possibility that it has left an impression that Japan will cave in when pressured," a leading daily, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial. Sun Cheng, an expert on relations between the two countries at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, said it would take time for relations to improve. "China will want to keep up its case over the Diaoyu islands. Whether Japan actually apologies or gives compensation is not so much the point as making it clear that China won't compromise on sovereignty," he said. A Japanese national resources and energy agency official said it was highly possible that China had started drilling in a gas field in another disputed part of the East China Sea, Kyodo news agency reported late on Friday. But the report also cited a Foreign Ministry official as saying there was no confirmation. Before the captain's release, China canceled diplomatic meetings and student visits. Tokyo had said it feared a prolonged dispute could hurt ties between the world's second and third largest economies, now swapping places as China overtakes Japan to the No.2 spot. Japan's sluggish economy has become increasingly reliant on China's dynamism for growth. China became Japan's biggest trading partner last year. China also wanted to ensure that the lingering tensions did not badly damage trade ties, said Sun, the Chinese professor. "It's not just Japan that needs China. China also needs Japan's markets, technology, investment," he said. "But this (dispute) will hurt relations for while yet." ($1=85.15 Yen) (Additional reporting by Yoko Nishikawa and Chikako Mogi in Tokyo and Andrew Quinn in Washington; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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DTN News: North Korea Seizes South Korean Fishing Boat

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(NSI News Source Info) SEOUL, South Korea - August 9, 2010: North Korea seized a South Korean fishing boat in waters near their eastern sea border, the South Korean Coast Guard said Sunday, straining already high tensions between the two Koreas. The 41-ton squidding boat was believed to have been detained after entering the North’s exclusive economic zone, where foreign fishing boats are banned, the coast guard said in a statement. Four South Koreans and three Chinese crew members were on board.

South Korea’s national news agency, Yonhap, quoting an unnamed coast guard official, said that the ship was being towed to Songjin, a port on the eastern coast of North Korea, for interrogation of the crew. “Our government hopes for the safe return of our ship and crew according to international laws,” the coast guard’s statement said. Inter-Korean relations have plunged to their lowest in years since a South Korean ship was sunk in March, killing 46 sailors. South Korea attributed the sinking to a North Korean torpedo attack, which the North denies, and is conducting a major naval exercise off of the west coast of the divided peninsula. North Korea has vowed retaliation against the naval drills. In the years immediately following the 1950-53 Korean War, North Korea was accused of prowling into South Korean waters and kidnapping South Korean fishing boats. Hundreds of South Korean fishermen from those ships never returned home. Such incidents have become rarer in recent decades. But fishing boats from either side have occasionally drifted into the other’s waters, often after engine trouble. How fast they were released often depended on the tenor of bilateral relations at the time. The South Korean squid ship left Pohang, a port on the east coast of South Korea, on Aug. 1 and was scheduled to return to port on Sept. 10. It made its last daily radio report to the South Korean Coast Guard on Saturday evening.

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