Posted on 11/09/2005 5:23:57 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Japan Scrambles Fighters 30 Times to Repel Chinese
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
TOKYO — Japanese fighter jets have been scrambled 30 times to turn away Chinese planes approaching Japan's airspace in the last six months, more than twice the 13 times in the same period last year, officials said Wednesday.
The increased defensive posture reflects the growing tensions between Japan and China, which are squabbling over interpretations of their wartime past, undersea gas deposits, and ownership of East China Sea islands.
An Air Self Defense Force spokesman said Japan's fighter jets had scrambled 30 times in response to what were believed to be Chinese military planes in the six months from April to September. Japan's fiscal year starts in April.
The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with agency policy, added that fighter jets also have been deployed since October, but declined to say how many times.
That would surpass the record-high 30 scramblings in response to Chinese planes in all of 1998. Japan began keeping track of the number of fighter jet mobilizations against specified countries in 1995.
Another official of the Air Self Defense Force declined to comment on the types of Chinese planes or what they were doing. He said there have been no major confrontations between Japanese fighter jets and foreign military planes in 2005.
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<< Wont be a whole lot left to stop em. >>
Just in case they ever get the amphibious means to try, there will always be the FRee Taiwanese.
And the United States Navy.
That'll stop the bastards.
AND make their eyes water.
True. But I think we're screwed in East Asia.
<< True. But I think we're screwed in East Asia. >>
I spend 80% of the year based in East Asia and have lived among Asia, Africa and Middle-East/Gul/Arabia for decades. My most passionate desire is that our nation Absolutely Refuse to treat the predatory Peking-based pack of lying looting thieving mass-murdering warlord-wannabe gangster bastards that calls itself "china" as if even one member of that obscene shower of **it belonged to anything even remotely associated with the Family of Civilized Nations.
And, unless we turn around -- in that the bloody idiots who run our abjectly Peter Principled corporations and the evil bloody idiots who effectively own and operate and control our even less in touch with reality and/or more actively anti-American State Department and Foreign Service and other feral-gummint departments are all either in morbid denial of the threat to all free men posed by "china" or are willingly in the Peking Pack's pockets -- we may well indeed be screwed.
Somehow having a lot of western desert didn't stop the USA from growing in that direction.
So Brian, how does the rest of Asia really feel toward China? Serious question.
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