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Diaoyu Dispute Sparks Anti-Japanese Protests

Anti-Japan protests swept across China on Sunday, after Japanese activists landed on the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea and unfurled Japanese flags just days after Japan detained a group of activists from Hong Kong for attempting to similarly assert China’s sovereignty on the disputed territory. From The New York Times: The Chinese state news media portrayed the demonstrations as fairly