China-Japan Aerial Clash: Beijing Slams ‘Dangerous’ Move By Japanese Aircraft After ‘Unusually Close’ Encounter

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China has slammed “dangerous behaviour” by a Japanese military aircraft over the Pacific, after Tokyo said Chinese fighter jets flew “unusually close” to its aircraft.

“The root cause of the risk to maritime and air security was the close reconnaissance of China’s normal military activities by a Japanese warplane,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

“The Chinese side urges the Japanese side to stop this kind of dangerous behaviour,” he added.

Earlier, Japan said on Thursday that it had expressed serious concerns to Beijing after Chinese fighter jets flew “unusually close” to a Japanese military patrol plane in the Pacific last weekend.

The incident followed the sighting of two Chinese aircraft carriers sailing in the Pacific simultaneously for the first time, including in Japan’s economic waters.

Japan said this week that the aircraft carriers’ activity — described by China as “routine training” — showed the expanding geographic scope of Beijing’s military.

A Japanese defence ministry spokesman told AFP on Thursday that Chinese fighter jets had flown “unusually close” to the Japanese patrol plane.

On Saturday, a Chinese J-15 fighter jet from the Shandong aircraft carrier followed a Japanese P-3C patrol plane for 40 minutes, then on Sunday two J-15 jets did the same for 80 minutes, the spokesman said.

“During these long periods, the jets flew unusually close to the P-3C, and they flew within 45 metres” of the patrol plane at the same altitude on both days, he said.

On Sunday, the Chinese jets cut across airspace around 900 metres in front of the Japanese patrol plane — a distance that a P-3C can reach within a few seconds at cruising speed, the spokesman added.

American P-3 Orion
File Image: P-3 Orion

“Such abnormal approaches can lead to an accidental collision, so we have expressed serious concerns” to the Chinese side, including Beijing’s ambassador in Japan Wu Jianghao, and asked them to prevent a repeat, top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters.

“The government will continue communicating with the Chinese side at various levels, while doing its best to patrol and monitor airspace around our country in order to defend Japan’s territorial soil, waters, and airspace,” he said.

Japanese military personnel had not been injured, the defence ministry said in a statement.

Similar incidents were last reported over a decade ago in May and June 2014, when Chinese Su-27 fighter jets flew within 30 metres (100 feet) of Japan’s military planes in the East China Sea.

At the time, Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador while the two sides traded accusations of blame.

Daisuke Kawai, director of the University of Tokyo’s economic security and policy innovation program, told AFP earlier this week that the timing of the aircraft carrier movements could be linked to US-China economic tensions.

“Beijing calculated that the United States would be less willing or able to respond militarily at this precise moment, seeing it as an opportune time to demonstrate its expanding military capabilities,” he said.

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