Chinese drones to monitor territories

China says it plans to use unmanned drones to conduct marine surveillance by 2015 as it tries to increase its presence around uninhabited East China Sea islands at the centre of a dispute with Japan.

While still years away, the planned deployment comes as relations between the sides continue to be roiled by fury in China over the Japanese government's purchase of the islands this month from their private Japanese owners.


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