China urges Japan not to flare up regional tension

By Zhao Shengnan | China Daily | Updated: 2012-10-26 08:07

A Chinese maritime surveillance ship cruises near the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei on Thursday confirmed that Chinese maritime surveillance ships, in routine patrols, had entered the 12-nautical-mile zone around the islands. Japan Coast Guard via Agence France-Presse

Beijing on Thursday urged Tokyo not to "blindly show off military might" or to flare up regional tension by conducting frequent military drills with "extraterritorial nations" amid the festering dispute with China over the Diaoyu Islands.