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Japan’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that a flotilla of Chinese naval vessels that entered waters near Japan’s Tsushima Strait on June 12 had completed a circumnavigation of the archipelago after a nearly three-week mission that saw how the ships ended their voyage near Taiwan, Kyodo News reported.
The Tokyo-based news agency outlined the development on June 30 and wrote:
Two [Chinese] guided missile destroyers and a cargo ship sailed through waters between Okinawa’s main island and Miyako Island in southwestern Japan and entered the East China Sea on Thursday [June 30] after circulating through the country for about 20 days, and the ministry is analyzing China’s intentions, according to the ministry’s joint staff.
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces’ vessels and aircraft guarded the Chinese navy’s flotilla, which was seen sailing into the Sea of Japan after crossing Tsushima Strait along Japan’s southern island of Kyushu from June 12 to 13. around the archipelago clockwise, according to the Joint Staff.
The Chinese flotilla sailed through Japan’s Miyako Street on Thursday, which is a narrow maritime passage between Okinawa and Miyako. The island of Miyako lies 277 miles east of Taiwan.
Beijing claims Taiwan as its legitimate territory despite the island’s status as a sovereign nation. China’s ruling Communist Party has repeatedly promised to “reunite” Taiwan with “the mainland”, that is, China, and regularly conducts military exercises near the island as a form of intimidation. Beijing also claims Japan’s Senkaku Islands, located 219 miles northeast of Taiwan. Chinese vessels often sail through waters near the uninhabited but strategically located islands.
Japanese nationalists carry national flags and posters during a rally on the Senkaku Islands issue, known as the Diaoyu Islands in China, in Tokyo on September 18, 2012. (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP / GettyImages)
China’s state administration Global Times suggested on June 21 that the Chinese navy first spotted on June 12 in Japan’s Tsushima Strait is likely to bypass the Japanese archipelago in the coming days.
To confirm the naval unit’s presence in waters near Japan, the Communist Party-led newspaper wrote:
Led by the Type 055 major destroyer Lhasa, a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) navy allegedly sailed from northwest to east and south of Japan on Monday [June 20] and Tuesday [June 21] after making transits in three strategic straits near the island island, and the vessels are expected to make a full circle around Japan if they want to continue on their way and return to base.
The Chinese naval mission to circle Japan lasted 18 days from June 12 to June 30. Beijing has not yet officially commented on its intentions with the exercise, although the Global Times on June 21 proposed the law was intended to counter Japan’s recent public support for Taiwanese sovereignty.
The newspaper quoted an unnamed “Chinese military expert” as saying he believed the latest Chinese naval activity near Japan served as a “warning” to Japan and the US, which is still an unofficial ally of Taipei. is what Chinese military aggression has repeatedly condemned. against the island.
“[W]when Japan and the US made repeated provocations on China over the Taiwan issue, the PLA’s naval activities serve as a warning to them, as some of the major Japanese and US military bases are located on the east side of Japan, such as the US naval base in Yokosuka, ”said the Chinese military analyst.
“The US and Japan should realize and become accustomed to the fact that the PLA is fully capable of protecting China’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests, and they must stop pursuing the so-called ‘China threat’ theory. and try to constrain China militarily. and interference in the Taiwan issue, which is an internal matter of China, ”he added.
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