Japan intercepts PLAAF Y-8 near Japan

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after a Chinese military aircraft flew for the first time through international airspace near its southern islands out over the Pacific, in a move seen by Japan as underlining China's maritime expansion.

Ties between China and Japan have been strained by a territorial dispute over uninhabited East China Sea islets and hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a decisive victory in upper house elections on Sunday.

Japan's Defense Ministry said a Chinese Y-8 airborne early warning plane flew through airspace between Okinawa prefecture's main island and the smaller Miyako island in southern Japan out over the Pacific at around noon and later took the same route back over the East China Sea.

"I believe this indicates China's move toward further maritime expansion," Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters, in comments carried on public broadcaster NHK.

Chinese government spokesmen were not immediately available for comment.

The waters around the disputed islands, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and which are to the west of Okinawa's main island, are rich fishing grounds and the sea floor around them could hold big oil and gas reserves.

Tension between China and Japan escalated last September when Japan bought three of the disputed islands from a private Japanese owner.

Since then, patrol ships and aircraft from both countries have been shadowing each other in the sea and skies around the islets.

That has raised fears of an unintended collision leading to a broader clash.

Abe has pledged to take a firm stance in the territorial dispute, but said in his news conference following the upper house election win that Japan's door was open to dialogue.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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Blackstone

Blackstone

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

So the PLAAF send ELINT assets near places it wants to gather intelligence, what's the big deal? We and the Japanese have been doing the same to China for decades.
 
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Equation

Equation

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

Blackstone said:
So the PLAAF sends ELINT assets near places it wants to gather intelligence, what's the big deal? We and the Japanese have been doing the same to China for decades.
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It's Shinzo Abe and his hawkish goons that wants it to make it a big deal that's why.
 
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joshuatree

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

Japan's response shows that no country likes having reconnaissance done on them.
 
plawolf

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

Chinese plane flies through international airspace and the Japanese make such a hissy fit about 'expansionism'? What next? Chinese tourist sneeze in Japan being treated as a biological attack? :rolleyes:
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

International waters... space... whatever... Good! It should happen regularly.
 
plawolf

plawolf

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

Ps, I think the title of this thread is a little misleading since the PLA plane clearly didn't overfly anything Japanese.

To state overflight would be suggesting that the Chinese did something aggressive to trigger it when in fact all the Chinese plane did was fly in international airspace, and as such did absolutely nothing wrong.
 
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no_name

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Re: Japan Flies Alert Aircraft Against PLAAF Y-8 Over-flight

Just a little trick the right wings played. They made the same fit when 3 PLAN ships transit through public waters not long ago. The kanji word they use was 'invaded water'
 
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