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A white Japan Coast Guard patrol ship with a blue diagonal hull stripe sails on calm blue water with green hills on the horizon.

Chinese survey ship Kexue leaves Japan's EEZ off Ishigaki after coast guard warnings

Japan's coast guard says the Chinese research vessel Kexue left Japanese waters north of Ishigaki and Yonaguni after a week of unauthorised survey work, the 14th such case this year.

TaiwanDefence · 2h ago · 3 min read