Posted on 10/27/2013 11:19:13 PM PDT by TexGrill
BEIJING: China on Sunday warned Japan that any attempts to shoot down its unmanned drones over disputed islands in the East China Sea would be considered as an act of war and will invite retaliation.
"If Japan took the so called moves, it would be a severe provocation to China and an act of war, and China will take resolute measures to strike back.
The Japanese side shall be responsible for the consequence", China's defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said.
He was reacting to reports that Japanese government has approved defence plans that envisaged using air force planes to shoot down Chinese drones in Japanese airspace.
"Chinese aircraft have never infringed on other countries' airspace, and China never allows other countries' aircraft to infringe on China's airspace," state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Geng as saying.
Both countries are involved in war of words over the disputed islands called Daioyu by China and Senkakus by Japan since last year and relations between them over it has strained considerably.
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Perhaps it is time for Japan to convert a portion of their huge stockpile of plutonium into miniaturized warheads.
MAD comes to Asia...
What makes you think they haven’t?
Proposed diplomatic note from Japan to China: Drones? Sorry. The only drones we have observed in the area appear to have crashed for unexplained reasons. No, you cannot have the wreckage for examination. In the interests of protecting this fragile planet we all live on, we have already recycled the metal and electronics.
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