Japan urges China to cease flying fighter jets too near Japanese army plane

Beforehand, Beijing has alleged Japan flew near its plane and was spying on China’s unusual army exercise and demanded Japan cease its actions.

Japan is worried about China’s acceleration of its army buildup, particularly in Japan’s southwestern areas.

Japan’s Overseas Ministry mentioned in an announcement late Thursday that its vice minister Takehiro Funakoshi expressed “severe concern” to Chinese language Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao and strongly requested Beijing to cease the exercise that would “provoke unintended collisions” and strongly urged China to make sure that comparable actions should not repeated.

The international locations traded accusations over comparable shut encounters final month. Japan mentioned a Chinese language fight plane flew extraordinarily near Japanese navy P-3C surveillance plane over the Pacific Ocean, the place two Chinese language plane carriers had been seen working collectively for the primary time.