TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said that the U.S.-Japan security treaty covers islands at the centre of a Sino-Japanese dispute but that he had not drawn any new "red line" over the islands, emphasising the need to resolve maritime disputes peacefully.
Sino-Japanese relations have long been plagued by conflicting claims over a group of tiny East China Sea islets, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
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