The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    924·
    3 months ago

    Meh, Turkey shot down a Russian jet and nothing happened a handful of years back. Can you really be that mad when a fighter breaching protected airspace is shot down?

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      261·
      3 months ago

      It’s not about “mad”, it’s about pushing boundaries. If they decide they want to…

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
        35·
        3 months ago

        it’s about pushing boundaries.

        China is going to keep pushing boundaries until they get punched in the mouth.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          They need a bigger plane that can just drop a net on the other plane and tow it in to Japan and give the pilot a stern talking to, and then they take the plane apart and send it back in a box. Dismantling the pilot optional.

    • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      Yes, you can.

      Russia and Turkey have very different political dynamics than China and Japan.

      Also, these types of airspace incursions, followed by intercepts, are pretty standard amongst major powers.

      It doesn’t mean they’re benign, but that shooting down Chinese planes intentionally as a response, is something you do if you’re willing and ready for the escalation path to result in open conflict, not simply an escalation.

        • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          They have been a staple of great power competition since the Cold War, as a means of political signaling, military posturing, and gathering of intelligence.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          3 months ago

          I mean, sure. When you have the world by the balls because you produce nearly 100% of all the worlds goods, what are you going to do? Say no?

          • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            China’s manufacturing capability is economically important in the short term but should hardly be looked at as a stranglehold on the entire world. Different countries have previously held the crown for “manufacturer of the world’s cheap rubbish” and India and Vietnam are currently vying for their turn to wear it. China will lose their supremacy before they’re able to do anything f politically strategic with it on the global scale.

    • VilianEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s Russia, they are getting invaded, and they started the invasion lmao, not sure if Chinese military is as bad