BEIJING: China has summoned an official from the Japanese embassy here to express “strong dissatisfaction” over Japan’s reported leasing of three disputed isles in the East China Sea, state media said yesterday.
A senior Chinese foreign ministry official on Friday urgently summoned the unnamed Japanese envoy over the move, which Beijing said “harmed” China’s territorial sovereignty, the China Daily said.
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