/ world today news/ Speaking to members of the Japanese Air Force at the Iruma Air Force Base in Tokyo’s neighboring Saitama Prefecture, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed considerable concern about air patrols by bombers from the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.
In reporting this, Japan’s Kyodo Tsushin news agency noted that the patrol was taking place over the Sea of Japan outside of the Land of the Rising Sun’s airspace. At the same time, the Japanese Prime Minister claimed that “Russia and China’s military activity is on the rise’.
As reported, in June, the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army of China conducted their sixth joint air patrol since 2019 over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, as well as over the Western Pacific Ocean.
In July, the Russian Federation and China held the North. Interaction – 2023″ in the Sea of Japan, and at the end of the same month, the Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy began joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean. A group of ships from both countries crossed the Sea of Japan, the Laperuse Strait, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Strait and the Bering Sea and proceeded to the northern regions of the Pacific Ocean to the coast of Alaska.
The agency recalls that whenever Russian and Chinese bombers fly within close proximity of Japan’s air and sea borders, fighter jets from the Air Self-Defense Force take off to intercept them. And the Japanese Foreign Ministry makes diplomatic statements about bomber flights and ship passages, portraying them as “acts of show of force”.
Moscow and Beijing deny similar accusations from Tokyo. Specifically, regarding the passage of Russian and Chinese ships through international straits near the Japanese coast, Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesman Wu Qian said that naval cooperation between Russia and China is in accordance with international law and aimed at maintaining of global and regional security.
„The cooperation between the Chinese and Russian militaries is open and transparent and aims to jointly protect international equality and justice… This is completely different from the practice of some countries that adhere to the Cold War mentality,” the spokesman said. He emphasized that “the action is not directed against third parties” and warned the Japanese side against “misconceptions and possible incidents at sea and in the air’.
It is noted that the aim of the naval exercises was to strengthen cooperation and support peace in the Asia-Pacific region. During the patrol, Russian and Chinese sailors practiced sea voyages in various formations, organizing all types of squad defense, replenishing water and fuel supplies on the go, as well as solving anti-submarine missions and conducting deck helicopter flights with takeoff and landing on various ships .
Moscow also rejects groundless protests by Japanese authorities who “demand” an end to routine training flights by Russian and Chinese aircraft that worry them. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes that such flights “are carried out in strict accordance with international law”.
One of the comments of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova regarding the Japanese “protests” reads: “Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen official Tokyo literally ‘cling’ to these now traditional teachings of the armed forces of both countries and distorts their objectives and content and even them associated with Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.
As for the above so-called protest, it was rejected by our diplomats as groundless and absurd in form and content. At the same time, regarding the absurd linking of this demarche with the special military operation in Ukraine, a counter-resolute protest was expressed to Tokyo.
The commentary also says that Moscow is watching closely “the hostile activities of the present Japanese government.” “We reserve the right to take appropriate measures in response to strengthen our country’s defense capability,” emphasized the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
However, Tokyo sees military interaction between two neighboring friendly countries as nothing more than a threat and uses exercises by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and China as justification for Japan’s revival policy as “great military power’.
Addressing the Japanese military personnel from the so-called self-defense forces because of the “insidious plans” of neighboring countries, Kishida called for “strengthening our defenses” and a readiness to repel enemies. To do this, he said, the government adopted a new strategic program to increase the combat capabilities of the “self-defense forces”, setting the task of doubling the military budget and purchasing from the United States as well as manufacturing Japanese offensive weapons.
He stressed that Japan is ramping up development of long-range missiles needed to launch counterattacks against targets on the territory of a potential adversary in the event of an attack on the country. Let’s recall that initially in the documents on the new military strategy it was not about counterstrikes, but about preventive strikes on the military bases of the enemy, as such the DPRK, PRC and Russia were declared/.
To achieve this, it is planned to increase the range of Type-12 missiles currently in service with the “self-defense forces”, purchase 400-500 American Tomahawk cruise missiles and develop its own hypersonic weapons. As Kyodo Tsushin acknowledges, such plans represent a radical departure from the provisions of the Japanese constitution, which rejects war.
Of course, conducting joint exercises, as they say in Tokyo, “next to Japan”, the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation and China do not take into account the peace plans of the USA and Japan to create a fist against these countries in the form of an “eastern version of NATO”, which, by the way, they do not hide it in Washington and Tokyo.
It can be said that the backbone of the military alliance in the Far East and East Asia as a whole has been built. Despite significant differences between Japan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), US President Joseph Biden managed to convince the leaders of these countries to unite in a military alliance directed against the PRC, the DPRK and Russia.
There are serious prerequisites for the involvement of Japan, and then possibly South Korea, in the Anglo-Saxon military bloc AUKUS (USA, Great Britain, Australia). The so-called Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) with the participation of the leaders of Japan, the United States, India and Australia has an openly anti-Chinese focus. This unification can also be used to unite pro-American forces in the region, although New Delhi declares its state’s non-aligned position.
Japan sees the danger of creating an “Eastern NATO” in the Asia-Pacific region to fight the opponents of the unipolar world of US hegemony and its satellites. Opponents of drawing the Japanese people into military confrontation with neighboring countries declared their intention to fight against these dangerous tendencies and plans.
This was stated by hundreds of participants in the protests against the G-7 meeting convened in Hiroshima. “Their actions are extremely dangerous. Japan and the United States are trying to wage a war of aggression against China.” the Japanese edition of Yahoo News quoted protest organizer Shunkichi Takayama. Protesters believe the G7 policy is pushing Japan into an unnecessary confrontation with the Celestial Empire.
In this situation, it would be irresponsible to ignore the anti-Chinese and anti-Russian plans of Washington and Tokyo. That is why the strengthening of interaction between the PRC and Russia not only in the political and economic fields, but also in the military is a timely and adequate response to the strategy of escalation of the confrontation and creation of new “hot spots” in East Asia.
Therefore, the joint Russian-Chinese military exercises must continue, since only a show of force can protect the supporters of maintaining dominance in this region of the world from provocative military blackmail, which is fraught with very serious consequences.
Translation: ES
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