Putin and Xi Jinping Team Up Against Japan
Chinese and Russian warships hold live-fire drills
Post World War II dispute between Russia and Japan
Xi Jinping eyeing Japan-controlled senkaku islands
Alarming military drills off Japan northern coast
Russian and Chinese warships been conducting drills around Japan since Friday.
The Chinese and Russian warships held a live-fire anti-aircraft drill in the sea of Japan . Moscow halted peace talks with Japan sanctions in the wake of war in Ukraine .Dispute over 4 islands-Japan claims the soviet union illegally seized territory .
Russia-Japan Kuril Island Territorial Dispute
“The dispute over this volcand-intensive archipelago of 56 islands is the primary reason Japan and Russia have never signed a peace treaty to formalize the end of Word War II . At the end of the war the Soviet Union invaded the Kuril islands some of which imperial Russia had previously controlled
While the transfer of the islands to the Soviet Union was included in the Yalta agreements ,Japan continued to claim historical rights to the southernmost islands”
Not just Russia , Japan also battling a territorial dispute with belligerent China
For around 75 years China did not contest Japan sovereignty over Senkaku islands . Beijing altered its stance because of potential oil reserves in the East China Sea .Since 2008 China has repeatedly made incursions into Japanese territorial waters .
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