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China slams japan over jet ‘lies’

CHINA’S Defense Ministry yesterday criticized Japan’s accusation that a Chinese military aircraft had “approached unusually close” to two Japanese warplanes, saying it’s “a thief who cries thief.”

Geng Yansheng, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said Japan’s YS11EB and OP3C aircraft tailed China’s Tu-154 plane as it was conducting a routine patrol over the East China Sea about 10am on Wednesday.

The actions of the Japanese fighters, which came within 30 meters of the Tu-154, seriously threatened the safety of China’s plane, Geng said in a statement.

Japan’s accusation “was aimed at further deceiving the international community, smearing the image of our military and generating tensions in the region,” he said.

“Japan’s vile practice disregarded the facts and talked black into white.”

According to the spokesman, the Chinese pilots’ operations were professional, standard and restrained while those of the Japanese counterparts were dangerous and obviously provocative.

Japan has long conducted close tracking, surveillance and interference over Chinese warships and airplanes, which is the root of Sino-Japanese security issues, Geng said.

“Rather than reflecting on its own faults, the Japanese side often makes irresponsible and deceitful expressions to slander China,” Geng said.

Its actions “completely unmasked its hypocrisy and it should make clarification to China and the international community,” he said.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily press yesterday that it was Japan’s long-term close surveillance and scouting of China’s aircraft that led to tensions over the East China Sea.

“The tension was completely triggered by dangerous acts of Japanese warplanes toward a Chinese warplane, while Japan disregards the facts and makes a false countercharge, openly defames China and hypes up the so-called China threat,” she said.




 

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