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DM: China blames Japan for hyping up "close encounter" of military aircraft
(Source:MOD) 2014-06-12
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The picture shows a scene of an F-15 fighter of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces that closely follows the Chinese aircraft Tu-154. When the aviation unit of the Air Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAAF) conducted routine patrol missions in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone on June 11, two Japanese F-15 fighters flew very close to and followed the Chinese aircraft Tu-154 with the closest distance of 30 meters from 10:17 to 10:28 and seriously influenced Chinese aircraft’s flight safety.

 BEIJING, June 12 (ChinaMil) -- On June 11, Japan hyped up that the Chinese fighters were extremely close to the reconnaissance aircraft of Japanese Self-Defense Forces and played up the fallacy of the so-called "China's military threat". This is another groundless accusation of Japan to deceive the international community, smear the images of China and the Chinese military, and create regional tensions after Japan claimed that China’s fighter flew extremely close to Japan’s military aircraft on May 24. The bad practices that Japan had done totally ignore the facts and call white black. Just as the Chinese saying goes that the villain brings suit against his victim before he himself is prosecuted.

   The truth of the fact is quite clear. When the aviation unit of the Air Force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAAF) conducted routine patrol missions in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone on June 11, two Japanese F-15 fighters flew very close to and followed the Chinese aircraft Tu-154 with the closest distance of 30 meters from 10:17 to 10:28 and seriously influenced the Chinese side’s flight safety. On the morning of the same day, the reconnaissance aircraft YS-11EB and OP-3 of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces conducted reconnaissance in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone. In accordance with the related regulations, China dispatched two J-11 fighters to identify and verify the Japanese aircraft with a distance of more than 150 meters. The Chinese pilots’ operations are professional and standard with restraint. What Japanese pilots had done is dangerous and provocative.

   For a long time, Japan tracks, monitors and interferes the Chinese warships and military aircraft, which endangers the Chinese warships and military aircraft and it is the root of the China-Japan naval and air security issues. Rather than conducting soul-searching itself, Japan often deliberately claims irresponsible, deceptive and agitational remarks to attack China maliciously, which totally exposes its hypocrisy and dual character in relations with China. The Japanese side is requested to clarify it to China and the international community. The Chinese side reserves rights to take further steps.
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Japan denies brush with Chinese planes, demands Beijing withdraws footage
PUBLISHED : Friday, 13 June, 2014, 6:02pm
UPDATED : Friday, 13 June, 2014, 6:54pm


Japan on Friday denied Beijing’s claims that its Self-Defence Force planes came “dangerously close” to Chinese aircraft in an incident over the East China Sea on Wednesday, and demanded China take down the footage allegedly showing the incident.

On Thursday, China said two Japanese F-15 planes followed a Chinese Tu-154 aircraft and came as close as 30 metres, “seriously affecting China’s flight safety”.

It posted a video on the defence ministry website allegedly showing the incident in an area where the two countries air defence identification zones overlap.

“We believe there is no truth in China’s assertions that Japanese fighter planes came within 30 meters of a Chinese plane and severely affected the flight’s safety,” Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.

Watch: Japanese F-15 fighters tailed a Chinese TU-154 plane
Video on website


“The airplanes [in the video] are different,” he said in response to a reporter’s question about the rationale behind Japan’s assertion, adding that Japan had lodged a protest late on Thursday and demanded that Beijing take down the footage.

The latest exchange followed a protest lodged by from Tokyo on Wednesday, when Japan said two Chinese Jian-11 fighter jets from the PLA Air Force flew “abnormally close” to Japanese military aircraft over the East China Sea.


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Beijing rejected this charge while accusing Tokyo of trying to “deceive [the] international community”.

A Chinese defence ministry spokesman, Geng Yansheng, dismissed that claim, saying “the guilty party files the suit first”, according to a statement.

Geng said two Chinese Tu-154 jets were tailed by a pair of Japan Air Self-Defence Force F-15 jets before 10.30am on Wednesday “as close as 30 metres”.

Later the same morning, two Japan Air Self-Defence Force reconnaissance planes entered China’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), prompting the People’s Liberation Army to scramble two Jian-11 fighter jets to check their identities, Geng said in the statement.

“[PLA jets] kept a distance of at least 150 metres from the Japanese planes,” the statement continued, adding that the Chinese pilots were “professional”, whereas their Japanese counterparts were “provocative”.

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The row is the latest flare-up in a long-running territorial dispute between Asia’s largest economies. It follows a similar incident on May 24, when Japan said Chinese aircraft had come within a few dozen metres of its warplanes.

China lays claim to Japanese-administered islets in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. China declared its air defence zone covering most of the East China Sea last year despite protests by Japan and the United States.

Suga reiterated Japan’s request to quickly establish emergency communication mechanism between the two countries so that they could deal with crisis situations.

Japan scrambled fighter jets against Chinese planes 415 times in the year ending in March, up 36 per cent on the year, while in waters near the disputed islands, patrol ships from both countries have been playing cat-and-mouse, raising fears of an accidental clash.

Japan denies brush with Chinese planes, demands Beijing withdraws footage | South China Morning Post
 
So long no one is shooting, everything is good.

Typical North Eastern Culture. From face to face confrontation to jet fighters confrontation, nobody wants to throw the first punch.
 
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