Japan warned over fighter jets at Diaoyu isles
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December 28, 2012, Friday
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CHINA is "highly vigilant" about Japanese jet fighter flights over the Diaoyu Islands and Japan must bear responsibility for any consequences, Chinese military and maritime officials said yesterday.
The officials were responding to Japan sending jet fighters several times in the past two weeks to intercept Chinese patrol planes approaching airspace above the islands.
"We will decisively fulfill our tasks and missions while coordinating with relevant departments ... so as to safeguard China's maritime law enforcement activities and protect the country's territorial integrity and maritime rights," Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a news conference.
Japan's Defense Ministry has acknowledged scrambling F-15 jets on several occasions in recent weeks to intercept Chinese marine surveillance planes approaching the islands.
Shi Qingfeng, a spokesman for China's State Oceanic Administration, confirmed yesterday that a Chinese marine surveillance plane was "disturbed" by Japanese military aircraft while patrolling airspace near the islands. Japan's action was a bid to escalate the situation, and it should bear the consequences of the action, Shi said. The Chinese plane was conducting a routine patrol in "China's undisputed airspace" about 150 kilometers away from the islands, he said.
Yang said it was justifiable for the Chinese military to provide security in waters under China's jurisdiction, and other countries were "in no position" to make irresponsible remarks in this regard.
"China-Japan defense relations are an important and sensitive part of bilateral ties, and the Japanese side should face up to the difficulties and problems that currently exist in bilateral ties," he said.
Yang also called on Japan to take concrete steps to properly handle relevant issues and maintain the overall situation of Sino-Japanese ties.
Meanwhile, China yesterday sent an ocean-going patrol vessel equipped with a helipad to the South China Sea, first of its kind to be put into service there. Haixun 21 will monitor maritime safety, investigate accidents, detect pollution, carry out search and rescue work and fulfill international conventions, said Huang He, deputy head of the Ministry of Transport's maritime bureau.
"In the past, Hainan provincial maritime law enforcement entities could only cover coastal waters and never reached the high seas. The newly enlisted Haixun 21 ends the history of no large oceangoing patrol vessels in South China Sea," said Ruan Ruiwen, head of the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration.
The officials were responding to Japan sending jet fighters several times in the past two weeks to intercept Chinese patrol planes approaching airspace above the islands.
"We will decisively fulfill our tasks and missions while coordinating with relevant departments ... so as to safeguard China's maritime law enforcement activities and protect the country's territorial integrity and maritime rights," Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a news conference.
Japan's Defense Ministry has acknowledged scrambling F-15 jets on several occasions in recent weeks to intercept Chinese marine surveillance planes approaching the islands.
Shi Qingfeng, a spokesman for China's State Oceanic Administration, confirmed yesterday that a Chinese marine surveillance plane was "disturbed" by Japanese military aircraft while patrolling airspace near the islands. Japan's action was a bid to escalate the situation, and it should bear the consequences of the action, Shi said. The Chinese plane was conducting a routine patrol in "China's undisputed airspace" about 150 kilometers away from the islands, he said.
Yang said it was justifiable for the Chinese military to provide security in waters under China's jurisdiction, and other countries were "in no position" to make irresponsible remarks in this regard.
"China-Japan defense relations are an important and sensitive part of bilateral ties, and the Japanese side should face up to the difficulties and problems that currently exist in bilateral ties," he said.
Yang also called on Japan to take concrete steps to properly handle relevant issues and maintain the overall situation of Sino-Japanese ties.
Meanwhile, China yesterday sent an ocean-going patrol vessel equipped with a helipad to the South China Sea, first of its kind to be put into service there. Haixun 21 will monitor maritime safety, investigate accidents, detect pollution, carry out search and rescue work and fulfill international conventions, said Huang He, deputy head of the Ministry of Transport's maritime bureau.
"In the past, Hainan provincial maritime law enforcement entities could only cover coastal waters and never reached the high seas. The newly enlisted Haixun 21 ends the history of no large oceangoing patrol vessels in South China Sea," said Ruan Ruiwen, head of the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration.
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