China sends patrol ships to islands held by Japan

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

BEIJING -- A territorial flare-up between China and Japan intensified as two Beijing-sent patrol ships arrived near disputed East China Sea islands in a show of anger over Tokyo's purchase of the largely barren outcroppings from their private owners.

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