The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    2 months ago

    Wheee.

    But in seriousness, if China learned anything from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine it’s that military corruption is a bitch and you need way more equipment than you thought. I expect it’s posturing. Sun Tzu: when you’re weak, appear strong.

    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

      China is facing a demographic crisis, but unlike Japan or Western nations, it still has a weak middle class seen with how domestic consumption has all but dried up.

      This posturing does nothing but quickens the pace that foreign development investment, the only tangible injection of wealth into the country, leaves.

      Unfortunately, due to Xi consolidating power, cult of personality, noone can say the obvious that his administration is retarded and needs to step down.