Posted on 07/03/2022 3:11:16 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Three Chinese warships completed a 17-day circuit around the Japanese archipelago on Wednesday, following a route similar to one taken by Russian warships earlier in June.
Two Chinese guided-missile destroyers and a replenishment oiler steamed through the Miyako Strait, between Okinawa and Miyako Island, around 11 p.m. Wednesday, Japan's Joint Staff said in a news release Thursday. The Joint Staff confirmed the same ships were spotted June 12 starting a journey that took them past Japan's largest islands.
A flotilla of seven Russian vessels began a similar journey June 15, of which five completed a circuit around Japan on June 21, Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said at a news conference June 22. Both the Chinese and Russian vessels effectively circumnavigated the Japanese archipelago, he said.
"The fact that about 10 Russian and Chinese ships sail around Japan on the same route in a short period of time is a display of the military presence of both countries around Japan," Kishi said in the news conference.
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one assumes that was expected and studied as far as sonar returns, if any.
I don’t think japan actually wants a problem with russia, but they are closely tied to the US in terms of the security arrangements vs. china, so they get dragged in. but they made a point of refusing to close down some energy project in russia and saying they had their own needs and would continue the project.
I think history will describe the Russian and Chicom navies as having spent more time at the bottom of the sea than on top of it.
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