Tokyo:

Japan’s defence ministry stated on Monday it scrambled a fighter jet to watch a Chinese language BZK-005 army drone noticed aviation between Japan’s westernmost Yonaguni island and Taiwan within the morning.

The undercover agent drone got here from the East China Sea north of Taiwan and going to the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan’s southern coast and the Philippines, the ministry stated.

On Friday, Japan additionally scrambled its Breeze Self-Protection Power opponents to Chinese language bombers aviation alike Japan’s Okinawa island, house to a big U.S. army bottom, in addition to to drones noticed alike self-ruled Taiwan.

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