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Chinese ships in Japan. These photos, released September 18 by Japan’s Ministry of Defence Joint Staff Office Public Relations show the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning , and two Luyang III-class missile destroyers at sea in waters near Japan’s southern Okinawa region.
The Liaoning carrier and two Luyang III-class missile destroyers were seen sailing southwards between the islands of Yonaguni and Iriomote, the defence ministry’s joint staff said. Public broadcaster NHK and other media, citing unnamed defence sources, reported that it was the first time a Chinese aircraft carrier had entered Japan’s contiguous waters.
China’s growing economic and military clout in the Asia-Pacific region and its assertiveness in territorial disputes—most recently with the Philippines—has rattled the United States and its allies.
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