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.
China is literally aggressive in both active and passive ways
Are we doing the “Chinese Weather Balloon” hysteria again?
Japan isn’t “occupied territory” they are a US ally
Starting in which year?
Taiwan is a country the only one contesting it is China
Where does Taiwanese airspace end and Chinese airspace begin? Would it surprise you to discover that Taiwan claims airspace over the south end of China?
I know folks on here love making the “East Taiwan” joke, but are you seriously going to argue that Xiamen and Fuzhou are also part of Taiwan?
It’s called strategic boundary pushing
Are we doing the “Chinese Weather Balloon” hysteria again?
If the US sent a bunch of weather balloons into Chinese airspace without any warning and they approached government and military sites, would you say the same thing?
Without explicit permission from the government it is a breach of sovereignty. The US had the right to annihilate all of those balloons the instant they passed into US airspace – just like China has the right to destroy the hypothetical US balloons as soon as they pass into Chinese airspace.
For how often China beats the drum about sovereignty, they should know this.
If the US sent a bunch of weather balloons into Chinese airspace without any warning
The US had the right to annihilate all of those balloons the instant they passed into US airspace
The US feds panicked at the bad press and created a rain of falling debris over South Carolina. Heck of a job.
And China would’ve been completely in the right if they shot those balloons down. It was a violation of their sovereignty. An ironic one, considering China did it first, but nonetheless, it enters their airspace without permission. China would be totally justified in shooting them down. I’m not sure why you think this is some sort of gotcha.
Additionally, they didn’t panic at bad press. They were waiting for the balloon to clear land so that when they shot it down, the debris wouldn’t rain down on anyone.
Once again, if these were truly just weather balloons for research, the university conducting the research and the Chinese government are incredibly negligent for not at least informing the US. For innocuous scientific research, there should be no problem with open communication.
Why does this picture place a US military base in Hong Kong?
Edit: also, identification zone =/= claimed airspace
Are we doing the “Chinese Weather Balloon” hysteria again?
Ah yea, when people are concerned when a near-hostile country sends over unknown aircraft unannounced it’s just “hysteria”. Not like those weather balloons are perfectly capable of carrying bombs or biowarfare contagions or anything…
Starting in which year?
April 28, 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty that was signed on September 8, 1951 went into effect.
Here’s a wikipedia article all about US-Japan relations since you appear to have flunked highschool history
a near-hostile country sends over unknown aircraft
A country’s biggest trading partner losing control of a very-well-established-as-weather-balloon aircraft.
April 28, 1952 when the San Francisco Peace Treaty that was signed on September 8, 1951 went into effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course
Fascinating stuff for a fully democratic and not-at-all militarily occupied country to undergo. If you’re into Wikipedia articles, you should give it a read. Full consolidation of economic power under a few US-loyal Zaibatsus that dominate the country into the modern day. Rearming of a police force loyal to the occupying US government, which was dedicated to busting up unions and crippling the nascent labor-rights movement in the country. And rapid expansion of military bases, in the run up to the US invasion and aerial bombardment of the Korean Peninsula.
