Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-03-05
The foreign ministry has lodged a strong protest against Japan over the harassment of a
Foreign ministry spokesman Andrew Lee appears in this CNA file photo.
Taiwanese fishing boat by a Japanese vessel. That was the word from foreign ministry spokesman Andrew Lee on Monday.
Lee said the Japanese vessel chased the Taiwanese boat on Saturday and Sunday while it was off Taiwan’s northeast coast. The Japanese vessel also threatened the Taiwanese boat with a water cannon.
Lee said the government lodged a strong protest against Japan on Monday because it had “enforced the law in an excessive manner”. Lee also accused the Japanese vessel of closely following the Taiwanese boat near Taiwan’s territorial waters. [FULL STORY]