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2023-08-13 11:11:42 UTC - HELPFUL
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This photo is from August 2012 and shows Japanese coast guard vessels commandeering a boat of Chinese activists who had planted flags on Uotsuri Island. https://archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/east-asias-sea-disputes-scar-tissue-from-war-wounds/ https://www.alamy.com/a-boat-center-is-surrounded-by-japan-cost-guards-patrol-boats-after-some-activists-descended-from-the-boat-on-uotsuri-island-one-of-the-islands-of-senkaku-in-japanese-and-diaoyu-in-chinese-in-east-china-sea-wednesday-aug-15-2012-regional-tensions-flared-on-the-emotional-anniversary-of-japans-world-war-ii-surrender-as-activists-from-china-and-south-korea-used-wednesdays-occasion-to-press-rival-territorial-claims-prompting-14-arrests-by-japanese-authorities-the-14-people-had-traveled-by-boat-from-hong-kong-to-the-disputed-islands-controlled-by-japan-but-also-claimed-by-china-and-tai-image537389973.html?irclickid=TnT2qjztGxyPRfDT3syLeScPUkF18VwsmV88wM0&utm_source=77643&utm_campaign=Shop%20Royalty%20Free%20at%20Alamy&utm_medium=impact&irgwc=1
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