Japan says China’s military activities could ‘seriously impact’ its security

SinoDaily.com reports: “Japan said Tuesday that China’s intensifying military activities could ‘seriously impact’ its security, citing the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace in an annual threat assessment.

The defence ministry said in its white paper that China was ramping up its activities in the entire region surrounding Japan.

A Chinese military aircraft entered Japan’s airspace in August last year, it said. Then in September, a Chinese aircraft carrier and two other naval ships sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan.

Beijing’s military ‘created a situation that could seriously impact Japan’s security’, the paper said.

It repeated its comment from last year’s paper that China’s military ambitions pose ‘an unprecedented and (the) greatest strategic challenge’ to Japan and the world…”

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