Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its exclusive economic zone | East Asia Tonight (Feb 13)

Japan says the captain of the vessel was arrested for evading inspection. Also on East Asia Tonight: North Korea warns of a “terrible response” should any South Korean drone intrude into its airspace again; and America’s and China’s top diplomats under the same roof as world leaders gather for the Munich Security Conference.

00:00 Headlines
01:37 Japan seizes Chinese boat
06:21 North Korea warns Seoul against drone incursions
08:01 Munich Security Conference
12:10 Taiwan’s GDP growth
12:58 US-Taiwan trade deal
17:26 Anthropic raises US$30b
19:50 Americans shoulder Trump tariff burden
24:00 Analyst Anja Manuel at Munich Security Conference
32:02 China reacts to CIA recruitment ad
33:25 Japan opens new visa centres in Russia

28 Comments

  1. Chinese boats have been invading Japanese territory regularly, but the Japanese government has hesitated to arrest them to avoid making problems. But, under the new prime minister, they decided to bring justice to those pirates. I hope that all countries that are enduring China's tyranny will follow Japan's example and change. China has no mercy on countries that bow down to it.

  2. @27:13… Level playing field? China's socio-economic rejuvenation is the result of profound and prolonged scarifice and laser focus on key strategic imperatives – stemming back to its Century of Humiliation by foreign powers and now manifested and amplified by US attempts to stymie and isolate Chinese and non-US aligned growth and development. Unfortuntely for Trump's America, China is not the vunerable Venezuela that can be pushed around and hegemonically isolated by the local playground bully. While Trump's America lazily justifies its bully-boy antics on the pretext of waging war on drugs and foreign corruption, behind thin veiled facades Pennsylvania Ave, Capitol Hill, the Banks of the Potomac, Langley and The Street blatantly wield corruption and extortion as everyday instruments of foreign, domestic and socio-economic policy.

  3. Good work, Japan & Taiwan! do NOT let bullies and pirates usurp your territorial rights.😮😮 😠

    The entire world now knows that these are all just part of the PLA’s insidious militia , thinly disguised as “fishing vessels “

    Beijing has drawn a clear circle around themselves , and all of us 🌍-citizens now uniformly identifies them as the world’s #1 pariah-state …
    🫠 🦇 😷 🤢 ☠️ 💀 ⚰️ ⚰️ 🪦 🧟

  4. CN TVV and SK do not recognize the boundaries of this Japan's designated exclusive economic zone.

    Chinese fishermen have been fishing in the dispute EEZ area for a considerable period, and Japan has not taken similar enforcement action in the past four years. The arrest at this time "has a clear provocative intent."

  5. Japan wants to Produce Nuclear bomb so instigates super China with the Support of idiotic Trump. Singapore pm said forgetting Japan war aggression in www two from the advice of dirty India.

  6. Japan did a good job; the Chinese are too greedy. Chinese fishing boats have even appeared in Peruvian waters. Someone must stop the Chinese.

  7. As a Japanese person, I think it is very difficult to strike a balance between facing up to the mistakes of the Empire of Japan and strengthening our military power.

  8. Thats good china thinks they can do whatever they want thru out the world without respecting unclos laws aisa europe africa america carribeian few days ago in south korea i want to see philippines will do the same

  9. So is the Japan EEZ recognized or self-proclaimed?

    If Japan can do this, then next time, no more complaints about the 9 dash lines in the South China Sea