Japan's 'island' definition dismissed
By Zhao Shengnan and Zhang Yunbi | China Daily | Updated: 2012-05-17 08:08
Move by international body hits Tokyo's bid for new economic zone
Tokyo's bid to upgrade the status of a Pacific atoll into an island, and claim an outer continental shelf with an exclusive economic zone, was dismissed by an international body.
China welcomed the decision as "fair and reasonable".
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