Japan, China to skirt mentioning Senkakus in communication mechanism

Japan and China are unlikely to mention that the waters and airspace around a group of uninhabited islets controlled by Japan and claimed by China are subject to a bilateral communication mechanism aimed at averting unintended clashes, Japanese government sources said Monday.Not making any specific geographic reference is a compromise on the part of both nations, whose relations have been buffeted by tensions over access to the waters and airspace around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the sources said.How the two countries address the matter will be one of the most closely scrut…READ FULL ARTICLE