Japan Monitoring China-Russia Military 'Show of Force' Around Country

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Japan Monitoring China-Russia Military 'Show of Force' Around Country​

BY JOHN FENG
ON 6/28/22 AT 10:44 AM ED

BY JOHN FENG ON 6/28/22 AT 10:44 AM EDT

Japan says it's monitoring an ongoing "show of force" by the Chinese and Russian navies, whose warships have sailed in a circle around the country in recent weeks.

The seemingly coordinated operations by China's People's Liberation Army Navy and the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet have not been officially acknowledged by either Beijing or Moscow. Tokyo, meanwhile, has published regular updates about ship movements off Japanese islands.

Between June 15 and 21, between five and seven Russian warships sailed in a southwesterly direction along southern Japan before returning north via the Sea of Japan, the Japanese Defense Ministry said in a tweet on Tuesday. From June 12 to 21, a flotilla of Chinese naval vessels, numbering between three and four, also circumnavigated Japan from the northwest.

Another two PLA Navy surface action groups, numbering two to five, sailed between the East China Sea and the Western Pacific from June 21 and 24, said the statement, which was accompanied by two illustrations showing the movements of the Chinese and Russian vessels.

According to the ministry, the first group of Chinese ships sailed through the Miyako Strait, an international waterway between the Japanese islands of Miyako and Okinawa, where the balance of the 50,000 or so forward-deployed U.S. forces in Japan are stationed. The second surface group made the rare choice to sail in the 70-mile-wide corridor between Japan's westernmost island of Yonaguni and Taiwan.

A map published by Japan’s Defense Ministry on June 28, 2022, illustrates the movements of Chinese warships around Japanese islands since mid-June 2022. Ministry of Defense, Japan
"This is a display of military presence around Japan and can be considered a show of force," the ministry's statement said, echoing concerns articulated last week by Japanese Defense Ministry Nobuo Kishi.

Separately, the office of Japan's Joint Staff reported one Chinese warship sailing between the uninhabited Izu Islands, south of Tokyo, on Sunday. The constant presence since mid-June is the longest since China and Russia announced a 10-ship joint patrol around Japan in October 2021.

The Japanese government under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced its intention to play a more active role in preserving regional security in light of what Tokyo sees as challenges posed by an increasingly aligned Beijing and Moscow, especially since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Japan has territorial disputes with both China and Russia, the former over the Senkaku or Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea; the latter over the Kuril Islands or Northern Territories separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the Northern Pacific.

 

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Monitoring, so what? Everyone monitors Everyone. What is special about that? Disputes you say ? China and Russia has have a territorial disputes with every single country around them and the countries which are not around them, so they do with Japan. All of that while you repeatedly say that intergities of countries must be respected.
 

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Monitoring, so what? Everyone monitors Everyone. What is special about that? Disputes you say ? China and Russia has have a territorial disputes with every single country around them and the countries which are not around them, so they do with Japan. All of that while you repeatedly say that intergities of countries must be respected.
China has 14 land neighboring countries, most of them are good friends, what do you mean every single country? Japan indeed has territorial disputes with every neighbor, namely China ( PRC+ROC ) Russia, North Korea, South Korea.

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Oh yeah? South China Sea to Malasya or bit of Kashmir, Kashmir it is so traditional Chines , even name indicates that. Oh forget, you want an observer status in North Pole, does South China Sea comes close to it? If not now , I am sure it will soon. The Nature has remarkable prowess to expand
 

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Oh yeah? South China Sea to Malasya or bit of Kashmir, Kashmir it is so traditional Chines , even name indicates that. Oh forget, you want an observer status in North Pole, does South China Sea comes close to it? If not now , I am sure it will soon. The Nature has remarkable prowess to expand
SCS is many claimants staking claims against each other, China actaully holds the least number of islands in SCS, western media makes it sounds like several claimants make claims against China, which is very absurd.

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Oh thank you, I learn something every day.
I know I teach you something you didn't know everyday, the best thing of being bilingual is getting balanced sources of information from both sides.
 

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I know I teach you something you didn't know everyday, the best thing of being bilingual is getting balanced sources of information from both sides.
What a silly answer, bilingual you say ? Pay attention to my country of origin and my resident country, it is not too difficult even for you to notice the difference. Which other languages I speak or understand is just technicality
 

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PRC also has disputed land problems with India, RF, Taiwan.
 

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