Re: Japanese ships dusrupted chinese naval exercicies
While that is true, I think both sides seriously need to consider a more stringent code of conduct.
Japanese ships and planes have constantly harried Chinese ships both during exercises and excursions beyond the first island chain, and led to that infamous incident where a PLAN frigate supposedly locked on to a JMSDF ship and helicopter. Without a code of conduct that both sides can adhere to and where the captains and men aboard ships can guide their actions with, such events will only escalate as the PLAN executes more and more exercises and blue water operations beyond its shores.
Otherwise each transiting PLAN ship is effectively left without having robust, mutually accepted policy to stand on, and must rely on their own judgement as to whether that JMSDF seahawk or P-3 buzzing close to them, or that destroyer closing in to nervous range, holds any hostile intent.
The reverse is also true of course, that is to say, JMSDF ships could also be harried by PLAN and PLAAF ships and planes, but geography inevitably means it is JMSDF or JASDF ships and planes which inevitably moves to intercept transiting PLA vessels and aircraft.
I wonder how big a news it is in Japan whenever a PLAN taskgroup or a Y-8 or H-6 plane transits between islands and airspace on way to blue water or for surveillance missions? Eventually it's going to become old news and normal, just like how the USN constantly does exercises in westpac out of yokosuka.
While that is true, I think both sides seriously need to consider a more stringent code of conduct.
Japanese ships and planes have constantly harried Chinese ships both during exercises and excursions beyond the first island chain, and led to that infamous incident where a PLAN frigate supposedly locked on to a JMSDF ship and helicopter. Without a code of conduct that both sides can adhere to and where the captains and men aboard ships can guide their actions with, such events will only escalate as the PLAN executes more and more exercises and blue water operations beyond its shores.
Otherwise each transiting PLAN ship is effectively left without having robust, mutually accepted policy to stand on, and must rely on their own judgement as to whether that JMSDF seahawk or P-3 buzzing close to them, or that destroyer closing in to nervous range, holds any hostile intent.
The reverse is also true of course, that is to say, JMSDF ships could also be harried by PLAN and PLAAF ships and planes, but geography inevitably means it is JMSDF or JASDF ships and planes which inevitably moves to intercept transiting PLA vessels and aircraft.
I wonder how big a news it is in Japan whenever a PLAN taskgroup or a Y-8 or H-6 plane transits between islands and airspace on way to blue water or for surveillance missions? Eventually it's going to become old news and normal, just like how the USN constantly does exercises in westpac out of yokosuka.
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