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Japan's PM warns China on use of force as jets scrambled
AFP
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan's leader warned China on Sunday against forcibly changing the regional balance of power, as reports said Tokyo had scrambled fighter jets in response to Chinese military aircraft flying near Okinawa.
Verbal skirmishing between Asia's two biggest economies, who dispute ownership of an island chain, escalated as Beijing warned Tokyo that any hostile action in the skies against Chinese drones would be construed as an "act of war".
"We will express our intention as a state not to tolerate a change in the status quo by force. We must conduct all sorts of activities such as surveillance and intelligence for that purpose," Abe said in an address to the military.
"The security environment surrounding Japan is becoming increasingly severe. This is the reality," he said. "You will have to completely rid yourselves of the conventional notion that just the existence of a defence force could act as a deterrent."
Abe presided over an inspection of the military at which a US amphibious assault vehicle was displayed for the first time, an apparent sign of Japan's intention to strengthen its ability to protect remote islands.
The defence ministry plans to create a special amphibious unit to protect the southern islands and retake them in case of an invasion.
"There are concerns that China is attempting to change the status quo by force, rather than by rule of law," Abe earlier told the Wall Street Journal in an interview following a series of summits this month with regional leaders.
"But if China opts to take that path, then it won't be able to emerge peacefully," he said in the interview published Saturday.
"So it shouldn't take that path, and many nations expect Japan to strongly express that view. And they hope that as a result, China will take responsible action in the international community," Abe added.
On Sunday Jiji Press and Kyodo News reported that Japan had deployed jets for two days running in response to four Chinese military aircraft flying over international waters near the Okinawa island chain.
Two Y8 early-warning aircraft and two H6 bombers flew from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean and back again but did not violate Japan's airspace, the reports said.
The Japanese defence ministry was not immediately available for confirmation.
Japan's military is on increased alert as Tokyo and Beijing pursue a war of words over the disputed islands in the East China Sea that lie between Okinawa and Taiwan.
On Saturday China responded angrily after a report said Japan had drafted plans to shoot down foreign drones that encroach on its airspace if warnings to leave are ignored.
Tokyo drew up the proposals after a Chinese military drone entered Japan's air defence identification zone near the disputed islands in the East China Sea last month, Kyodo said.
"We would advise relevant parties not to underestimate the Chinese military's staunch resolve to safeguard China's national territorial sovereignty," China's defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said in comments posted on the ministry's website.
"If Japan takes enforcement measures such as shooting down aircraft, as it says it will, that would constitute a serious provocation, an act of war of sorts, and we would have to take firm countermeasures, and all consequences would be the responsibility of the side that caused the provocation."
Tokyo and Beijing both claim the small uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. Japan administers them and calls them the Senkakus. China refers to the islands as the Diaoyus.
One of Abe's first decisions as prime minister was to increase the defence budget for the first time in 11 years.
Tokyo also plans to hold a major air and sea exercise next month to bolster its ability to protect its remote islands.
source: http://news.yahoo.com/japans-pm-warns-china-force-jets-scrambled-064532644.html (http://news.yahoo.com/japans-pm-warns-china-force-jets-scrambled-064532644.html)
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:-\ iba na ang indications nyan... walang panalo sa kanila.. pareho silang talo.... kaya dapat mag-isip isip sila...
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I don't see how Japan is in the wrong. They have every right to shoot down any planes that invade their air space. One cannot just go in willy nilly without repercussions.
This had happened with Russian and US spy planes and drones in the past, it didn't really make that much of a wave but it was very frowned upon. Anyway I would think the dynamic between the US and Russia is quite different from China and Japan.
The other guy though a great power is not its former self, and the second guy an up and coming power which has a lot to prove and vying for complete hegemony here in Asia at least.
We'll see how this pans out, but when push comes to shove, the sleeping dragon might be biting more than it could chew on this one. Not too long ago Japan had most of us in the region by the balls, so there might be more to Japan than meets the eye even in this weakened state.
Chuugoku try to chill out.
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I don't see how Japan is in the wrong. They have every right to shoot down any planes that invade their air space. One cannot just go in willy nilly without repercussions.
This had happened with Russian and US spy planes and drones in the past, it didn't really make that much of a wave but it was very frowned upon. Anyway I would think the dynamic between the US and Russia is quite different from China and Japan.
The other guy though a great power is not its former self, and the second guy an up and coming power which has a lot to prove and vying for complete hegemony here in Asia at least.
We'll see how this pans out, but when push comes to shove, the sleeping dragon might be biting more than it could chew on this one. Not too long ago Japan had most of us in the region by the balls, so there might be more to Japan than meets the eye even in this weakened state.
Chuugoku try to chill out.
:-\ very nice observations tol Prime... the Japs have really made promise that they will never start a war again... so even though their airspace has been breached by the @#$!# chinese, still they held their own...
ahhh... what do these chinese people want to prove...
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wala talaga sa ayos yung China
ang kukulit
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China really need this so that they will stop forcing other smaller country to their liking...... Tama lang para sa akin ang ginawa ng Japan... masyado ng napapagbigyan ang mga Chinese...this has to stop
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maganda i nuke yung military camp ng china para maubos gamit nila. sabay sabay! pak$h%t na mga chinese yan! uhaw sa giyera!
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Kung dati umuubra sila ngayon hindi na pwede, dahil marami ng mas malakas sa china mga aktibista talaga sila .. tama isang nuke lang sa kanila ngayon lalo na bulok na ang kagamitan nila ..
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Its time to deploy the mobile suits! Initiating launch sequence....
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Grabe na ang pagkabully ng china. Gusto nila hindi sila pwedeng pagalitan sa mga ginagawa nila, pag may pumalag sila pa ang magagalit. Padalhan na ng gundams yan.
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