Japan spots Chinese spy ship tailing Indian ships during Malabar war games

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

SOURCE: Express News service

A Chinese navy spy ship tailed two Indian warships during the trilateral Malabar naval exercise in Japanese territorial waters, where ships of the US, India and Japan are participating, according to Japanese authorities.

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshige Seko reportedly said that a Japanese P-3C patrol aircraft spotted the Dongdiao-class intelligence vessel sailing in territorial waters to the west of Kuchinoerabu Island at around 3.30 am (1830 GMT on Tuesday).

And the ship travelled on a southeasterly bearing and left Japan’s territorial waters south of the prefecture’s Yakushima Island around 5 am, Seko reportedly said. Trilateral maritime, with over 22 naval ships and 100 naval aircraft including nuclear submarine, are carrying out exercise in East China sea, few miles away from the disputed South China sea, with an aim to focus on deeper military ties and greater interoperability.

It was for the first time that a Chinese spy ship was detected in Japanese water since a submarine was spotted in 2004. The latest intrusion came less than a week after another Chinese naval vessel sailed near islands at the Centre of a Tokyo-Beijing sovereignty dispute in the East China Sea.

Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani reportedly said, “The Chinese military vessel moved in after an Indian ship sailed into Japan’s territorial waters as it participated in a Japan-US-India joint exercise.”

A senior Foreign Ministry official lodged a protest with the Chinese Embassy here. “We are concerned about the Chinese military’s recent activities,” Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said. Japanese officials said they are analysing China’s possible motives behind the two actions.

“The government will continue to exert every effort in warning and surveillance activities in the waters and airspace surrounding the country,” Seko said.

As to the spy vessel’s case today, the Defence Ministry said it entered the waters while tracking two Indian naval ships that were participating in ongoing Malabar naval drills.

In Beijing, Chinese officials defended the naval vessel’s entry into the waters, saying the passage was in line with the principle of freedom of navigation and international rules.


http://www.newindianexpress.com/nat...labar-war-games/2016/06/16/article3484421.ece

 

[BDforever]

SOURCE: Express News service

A Chinese navy spy ship tailed two Indian warships during the trilateral Malabar naval exercise in Japanese territorial waters, where ships of the US, India and Japan are participating, according to Japanese authorities.

Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroshige Seko reportedly said that a Japanese P-3C patrol aircraft spotted the Dongdiao-class intelligence vessel sailing in territorial waters to the west of Kuchinoerabu Island at around 3.30 am (1830 GMT on Tuesday).

And the ship travelled on a southeasterly bearing and left Japan’s territorial waters south of the prefecture’s Yakushima Island around 5 am, Seko reportedly said. Trilateral maritime, with over 22 naval ships and 100 naval aircraft including nuclear submarine, are carrying out exercise in East China sea, few miles away from the disputed South China sea, with an aim to focus on deeper military ties and greater interoperability.

It was for the first time that a Chinese spy ship was detected in Japanese water since a submarine was spotted in 2004. The latest intrusion came less than a week after another Chinese naval vessel sailed near islands at the Centre of a Tokyo-Beijing sovereignty dispute in the East China Sea.

Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani reportedly said, “The Chinese military vessel moved in after an Indian ship sailed into Japan’s territorial waters as it participated in a Japan-US-India joint exercise.”

A senior Foreign Ministry official lodged a protest with the Chinese Embassy here. “We are concerned about the Chinese military’s recent activities,” Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said. Japanese officials said they are analysing China’s possible motives behind the two actions.

“The government will continue to exert every effort in warning and surveillance activities in the waters and airspace surrounding the country,” Seko said.

As to the spy vessel’s case today, the Defence Ministry said it entered the waters while tracking two Indian naval ships that were participating in ongoing Malabar naval drills.

In Beijing, Chinese officials defended the naval vessel’s entry into the waters, saying the passage was in line with the principle of freedom of navigation and international rules.


http://www.newindianexpress.com/nat...labar-war-games/2016/06/16/article3484421.ece

it was done by naughty @cirr

 

[neem456]

Tailing, that is all they will do for rest of their lives.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Chinese actions here remind me of this pic:

That one insecure outcast kid that creepily stares and tries to eavesdrop on a group.

 

[Grevion]

Look who we found lurking around.

 

[Jamwal's]

Dongdiao-class.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Look who we found lurking around.

Lurking or sulking?

Considering some nation was very pissed off with these exercises in the first place.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/517406/china-reacts-sharply-japans-inclusion.html

China reacts sharply to Japan's inclusion in Malabar exercises
Beijing, Dec 14 , 2015, PTI:

Reacting sharply to India's move of including Japan in the Indo-US Malabar naval exercises, China today said it is hopeful Tokyo will not "provoke confrontation" and "heighten tensions" in the region.

"Our position is very clear. It is hoped that the relevant country will not provoke confrontation and heighten tensions in the region," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hong Lei told a media briefing while replying to a question on Japan's inclusion in the Malabar drills.

During Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to India last week, it was announced that Japan will be a partner in Malabar Naval Exercises, taking it from a bilateral naval exercise between India and the US to a trilateral level on a permanent basis.

In his briefing, Hong reacted mildly to references to the disputed South China Sea in the talks between Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as the agreement between the two countries to further civil nuclear cooperation.

"China respects freedom of navigation enjoyed by the all countries in the SCS according to the international law," he said.

He, however, defended China's construction of artificial islands with military facilities.
"Construction undertaken by China in the reefs and islands of the SCS is within China sovereignty. There is no impact on freedom of navigation and over flight," he said reacting to SCS references in the joint statement issued after Modi-Abe talks.

"We hope that countries outside the region will respect efforts being made by the countries in the region to maintain security and stability of the SCS rather than the other way around," he said.

Territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve both island and maritime claims among several states within the region like China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
On the India-Japan civil nuclear deal, Hong said, "with regard to nuclear cooperation between India and Japan we always believed that on the premise of respecting nuclear non-proliferation. All countries have the right to make peaceful use of nuclear energy and carry out relevant co-operation."

"The relevant corporation should help maintain the authority and effectiveness and international nuclear non-proliferation regime," he said.

Yet, despite its petulant whining the exercises continued