ThefactthattheDiaoyuIslandsbelongtoChinawillnotchange,nomatterwhatJapansaysordoes,ChineseForeignMinistryspokesmanGengShuangsaidTuesday.Gengmadetheremarksatarout
China rejected Japanese protest against a website for the Diaoyu Islands on Thursday, saying the Japanese demand to shut down the website is "unreasonable" .
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Thursday that the U.S. stance on the Diaoyu Islands is unchanged.
The US-Japan alliance, a bilateral arrangement made in the Cold War, should not undermine China's territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights, a Chinese spokesman said on Wednesday.
Japan, rather than China, is the country that has unilaterally "altered the status quo" in the East China Sea region in a longstanding dispute with China over the Diaoyu Islands.
In response to Japanese prime minister Abe's visit to disputed islands in the East China Sea, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman urged Japan to stop all provocative words and acts detrimental to China's sovereign rights.
A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry expressed China's demand that Japan return to the track of managing and resolving disputes over the Diaoyu Islands at an early date on Tuesday.
China is firmly opposed to comments made by the United States about the Diaoyu Islands, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here Sunday.
China says it's on high alert for any move by Japan to prevent its patrols around the Diaoyu Islands, after Tokyo suggested it would interrupt Chinese ships and planes in the area.
The latest on a territorial dispute between China and Japan over an island chain in the East China sea.
A flotilla of the People's Liberation Army Navy patrolled waters near the Diaoyu Islands on Monday, after returning from a training exercise in the West Pacific.
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