China slams Japan for resolution on airspace zone


  • World
  • Friday, 06 Dec 2013

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry criticised Japan's lower house of parliament on Friday for passing a resolution demanding that Beijing scrap its air defence zone over the East China Sea, saying Japan had no right to "talk nonsense".

China's decision last month to declare an air defence identification zone in an area that includes islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan has triggered protests from the United States and its close allies Japan and South Korea.

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