(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi urged the United States to correctly understand the Diaoyu Islands issue and be cautious with words and deeds. While meeting with visiting US senators John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse, Yang stressed that China has indisputable sovereignty over the Diaoyu Island and their affiliated islets, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry press release.
McCain said that the United States does not take a position on the sovereignty of the islands, which was different from his controversial remarks in Japan on Wednesday.
A Kyodo report quoted McCain as saying on Wednesday that the islands as "Japanese territory" and China is violating Japan's fundamental right to the islands at a news conference in Tokyo. US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki reiterated at a press briefing on Thursday that the United States does not take a position on the underlying question of the ultimate sovereignty of the islands.
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