{"id":14589,"date":"2014-06-12T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14589"},"modified":"2014-06-12T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:00:58","slug":"japan-slams-china-over-close-encounter-of-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/12\/japan-slams-china-over-close-encounter-of-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan slams China over close encounter of jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14590\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/japan-china.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14590\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/japan-china.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/japan-china.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/japan-china-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Japan lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing on Wednesday after Chinese military jets flew near Japanese military aircraft over the East China Sea, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said two Chinese SU27 fighters approached as close as 30 meters (100 feet) to Japanese aircraft on Wednesday morning. He said the Chinese planes posed a danger to the Japanese aircraft and a serious incident could have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Japanese planes were on a regular surveillance mission in international airspace, and that Japan would continue to defend its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to the Chinese defense ministry&#8217;s press office rang unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have increased patrols by ships and military planes to press their conflicting territorial claims in the East China Sea. They had a similar incident on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between the two Asian rivals worsened in recent years over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Japan controls the islands but China also claims them.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese fighter jets were scrambled in response to foreign aircraft 810 times last year, more than half of them Chinese, according to a recent Defense Ministry report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 Japan lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing on Wednesday after Chinese military jets flew near Japanese military aircraft &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[420,667,5063],"class_list":["post-14589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","tag-china","tag-japan","tag-jets","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}