Diaoyu Islands

US calls for peace over China-Japan island row

Campbell and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a closed-door meeting on Thursday with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai.

Tokyo protests four Chinese ships near disputed islands

Tensions over the tiny islands intensified after Tokyo bought them from their Japanese private owners in September, prompting Chinese to hold demonstrations and boycott Japanese products.

China daily warns Japan of 'bitter fruit' in island dispute

China won't allow any country to "seize even half inch of Chinese territory", said a state-run Chinese daily, warning the Japanese government that "it will have to swallow the bitter fruit" if it continued to act arbitrarily.