Sentence examples for nearest dispute from inspiring English sources
(Perhaps the nearest dispute in our day was Gitta Sereny's apparent leniency on the subject of Albert Speer).
After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near disputed islands, China compounded tensions with Japan by bolstering its territorial claims at the United Nations.
Mr. Easton said deploying the drone near disputed waters and islands "was very much a first" for China and had caught Japanese officials off guard.
Beijing had earlier withheld these shipments to Japan, after a spat over a Chinese fishing vessel that collided with Japanese patrol boats near disputed islands.
And after promising to retaliate militarily should South Korea renew artillery drills near disputed waters, they have reacted — so far — only with words.
The countries are locked in an increasingly tense row over Japan's detention of a Chinese captain after his trawler collided with a coastguard vessel near disputed islands.
A territorial row between Japan and China worsened today after officials threatened to prosecute the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with Japanese patrol ships near disputed islands.
Recent polls show Mr. Kan's approval ratings dropping below 30 percent following widespread criticism that his government had appeared intimidated in handling a standoff with China over an arrested Chinese trawler captain near disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Nine Vietnamese fishermen detained by China near disputed islands in September, who were set free last week and then lost at sea, have been located and taken to safety, the Vietnamese government said Sunday.
BEIJING -- The Chinese foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, demanded Friday that Japan immediately release the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that collided with two Japanese patrol vessels near disputed islands.
TOKYO -- Japan freed 14 crew members of a Chinese fishing ship Monday, nearly a week after their vessel had collided with two Japanese patrol boats near disputed islets, but kept the captain in custody.
