Maritime Risk International
Recycling signatory
China has maritime disputes with Japan and a number of Southeast Asian countries concerning islands to China’s east and south.
Nationalism, history, uneasy Sino-Japanese relations and competition for energy supplies have aggravated the disputes. The
most apparent of these is the dispute around the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islets, which were bought from private citizens by the Japanese
government in September 2012.