Beijing has defied Tokyo’s repeated demands to remove a buoy set up within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, leaving the impasse in uncharted waters for about 10 months.

“A few weeks ago, the community of Perros-Guirec in Brittany, France, found a yellow can buoy washed up on their rocky coastline,” Dry Tortugas National Park wrote in a June 4 Facebook post.