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By Joe Cash and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI, June 1 (Reuters) - China's Coast Guard on Monday said it had conducted "law enforcement" patrols in waters east of Taiwan in response to Japan and the Philippines' plans to launch maritime border delimitation talks,
Japan is treating Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with exceptional hospitality on his four-day state visit.
Beijing dispatched a coast guard flotilla after Japan and the Philippines announced plans to delimit maritime boundaries.
Japan has launched an anti-dumping probe into imports of key steel products shipped from China, South Korea and Taiwan, adding to signs of trade stress in a sector suffering from global overcapacity.
China views cooperation between U.S. allies Japan and the Philippines as undermining its longstanding claim to Taiwan.
The Chinese navy was spotted conducting aircraft carrier drills in the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines last week, Japan's defence ministry said in a bulletin on Monday.
Japan and the Philippines said last week they would begin talks on delimiting the maritime boundary of the exclusive economic zone, which overlaps with areas claimed by Beijing.
Japan's defence minister took a veiled swipe at China on Sunday, pledging to keep strengthening the military despite Beijing's criticism of Tokyo's increasingly muscular security stance.