NEW YORK (Reuters) - Japan will make no concessions on sovereignty over Pacific islets also claimed by China, but Tokyo will not make any moves to escalate the situation, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday.
Tokyo is locked in a territorial dispute with Beijing over a group of East China Sea islets, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. They have become a theatre for cat-and-mouse operations by patrol vessels from both sides.
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