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The territorial violation by China is the latest in a series of events amplifying tensions between Beijing and Japan.

A Chinese military surveillance plane breached Japanese airspace off the country’s southwestern coast on Monday, marking what Japan’s defense ministry described as the first known incursion by China’s military into its territorial airspace.

According to a ministry official, a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft briefly entered Japanese territory near Nagasaki Prefecture around 11:30 a.m. on Monday. In response, Japan’s Self-Defense Force put fighter jets on high alert and issued a warning to the Chinese aircraft.

While Chinese planes frequently appear in international airspace around Japan, this incident represents the first confirmed entry of a military aircraft into Japan’s territorial airspace.

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Western reporting coverage of Chinese military operations is slanted to paint China as an aggressor

China is literally aggressive in both active and passive ways, maybe some news outlets are exaggerating a little for clicks, but it's not by much

You don't read about American military aircraft invading Japanese airspace because Japan is occupied territory.

Japan isn't "occupied territory" they are a US ally who allows us to have a base there for rapid response and protection.

You don't read about Taiwanese aircraft invading Chinese airspace, because there's no defined territorial line between them on account of Taiwan being contested territory.

Lol, nah, Taiwan is a country the only one contesting it is China in the same way that Russia is "contesting" that Ukraine is their territory.

This reeks of wolf warrior diplomacy.

China sending a single Rambo-esque supersoldier in to liberate native peoples from an evil mercenary army?

  1. It's called strategic boundary pushing China has been known to do such things with their other neighbors

  2. You reek of a China apologist

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