Chinese Ships

Japan lodged a formal protest via China's embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship into its territorial waters Saturday, the Japanese foreign ministry said. The ministry expressed strong concern after the ship was spotted near Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, early in the morning. The Chinese ship, confirmed in territorial waters at 6 am local time, left shortly before 8 am, according to Japan's Defence Ministry, adding it was monitored by a Japanese military vessel and plane. Recently, China's increasingly assertive activity around Japanese waters and airspace has caused unease among Japanese defence officials, also concerned about the growing military cooperation between the Chinese and Russian air forces. This follows Tokyo's protest after a Chinese military aircraft briefly entered Japan'ssouthwestern airspace on Monday. It was the first time the Japanese Self Defence Force detected a Chinese military aircraft in Japan's airspace. Chinese .

China's foreign ministry has said research by the vessel was "exclusively" for peaceful purposes to benefit scientific understanding

They do not affect the security and the economic interests of any country and should not be obstructed by any third party," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

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Stoppages of a vessel at any port of the affected countries only for refuelling will not be considered for the calculation of 14 days.

Singh said anyone operating in "our region, will have to notify the Indian Navy".

The ships were received in a formal ceremony at Gwadar Port