China disputes full production from gas field

Aug. 8, 2006
China has not yet started full production from the disputed Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, according to a senior Japanese government official (OGJ Online, Aug. 7, 2006).

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 -– China has not yet started full production from the disputed Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, according to a senior Japanese government official (OGJ Online, Aug. 7, 2006).

Vice-Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi Aug. 8 told reporters that his government had confirmed "through several routes that there is no truth" to reports that China had begun production from the field. Yachi did not identify which sources had provided the information.

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