MILTECHNO - Japan said on Monday it had sent fighter jets and aircraft carriers and warships in the past two weeks to stay at China's Liaoning air base and five warships that have carried out naval and air operations in the Pacific.
Japan is monitoring the activity after Chinese naval forces, including guided-missile destroyers, sail between the main island of Okinawa and the island of Miyakojima in the western Pacific through the East China Sea and December 29. On the 16th, the Ministry of Defense of Japan said in a press release.
Before returning home on the same route on Sunday, Chinese carriers carried out more than 300 take-offs and landings of planes and helicopters, the ministry added, although it did not report any attacks on the sea or airspace. . While China has carried out similar operations in the past, including in May, the latest large-scale military exercises near the Japanese islands come as Japan announced it will double its defense spending in for the next five years. its forces to push regional claims in the region, including against neighboring Taiwan.
Japan also said it had spotted a Chinese WZ-7 aircraft near Miyakojima on Sunday and again on Monday, the first time it had seen the aircraft at high altitude in the area.
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