Long-range air force drills recently conducted above the East and South China seas, that rattled Taiwan and Japan, are routine and normal military activities, the Chinese Air Force said yesterday.
Chinese military aircraft on Saturday flew between Japan’s Okinawa Island, the Miyako Islands and over waterways near Taiwan.
Japan protested to China over a Chinese complaint that Japanese fighter jets had engaged in “dangerous and unprofessional” behavior when they scrambled as the Chinese aircraft flew near Japanese islands.
In a statement on its official microblog, the Chinese Air Force said the drills were normal military activities.
“This is the air force’s mission, its responsibility, it is lawful, reasonable and fair, and happened as in the past according to plan,” it said.
The air force said it noted foreign media reports of the aircraft types involved, including the H-6K strategic bomber and Su-30 fighter, and that this had “attracted public attention at home and abroad.”
While it did not confirm what aircraft flew in the drills, it showed photographs of both aircraft as part of its microblog statement, without saying when or where the pictures were taken.
“In the past two years of the Chinese Air Force’s holding drills far out at sea, we have dealt with and handled various forms of interference and obstruction, carrying out reconnaissance and early warning, patrol, attack, air refueling and other drills,” it said.
It had improved the air force’s ability to wage battle far out at sea, enabling it to protect the nation’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, it said.
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