領海侵入、最長また更新　中国公船―沖縄・尖閣沖

　沖縄県石垣市の尖閣諸島沖の領海に侵入していた中国海警局の「海警」２隻が７日、領海を出た。領海内に連続で滞在した時間は６４時間１７分で、２０１２年の同諸島国有化以降最長となった。海警は６月２１～２３日にも領海に６４時間侵入し、滞在時間の最長を更新したばかりだった。（2022/07/07-23:17）

Two Chinese coast guard ships left Japanese territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, southernmost Japan, on Thursday after staying in the waters for a record 64 hours and 17 minutes.
   It was the longest single intrusion by a Chinese government ship into the Japanese waters since Japan nationalized islands in the Senkaku chain in the East China Sea in 2012.
   According to the Japan Coast Guard's 11th regional headquarters in the Okinawa capital of Naha, the two Haijing ships crossed into Japanese waters southwest of Uotsurijima, an island in the Senkaku chain, around 4:35 a.m. Tuesday (7:35 p.m. Monday GMT) as they tried to approach a Japanese fishing boat operating there. The two ships left the waters around 8:50 p.m. Thursday.
   The previous longest stay in the waters by a Chinese government vessel was 64 hours, marked by two Haijing ships between June 21 and June 23.
   The Japanese-administrated Senkaku Islands are claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.