China slams Japan over close military jet encounter

‘The Chinese Defense Ministry expressed “grave concern” over what it called “two Japanese F-15 fighter jets’ interference” in Chinese Air Forces’ training in the Western Pacific. The incident resulted in a close encounter between Chinese and Japanese military jets.
According to a statement released by the Chinese ministry, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) scrambled two F-15 fighter jets to shadow Chinese warplanes that were flying over the Miyako Strait as part of a “routine training exercise in the Western Pacific.”
The ministry’s spokesman, Senior Colonel Yang Yujun, said in the statement that the Japanese jets “endangered the safety of the Chinese aircraft and the crew” by approaching at a close range and “launching jamming shells.”’
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