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China warns Japan against ‘playing with fire’ in South China Sea
japantimes.co.jp
China warned Japan on Thursday that it is “playing with fire” in the South China Sea after Tokyo said it would “increase engagement” in the contested waters.
The rebuke comes just days after China sent fighter jets — part of a group of more than 40 aircraft — through a key international entryway into the Western Pacific for the first time.
On a visit to Washington earlier this month, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said that Tokyo would “increase its engagement in the South China Sea through … Maritime Self-Defense Force joint training cruises with the U.S. Navy” and via maritime capacity-building with littoral states in the region.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun called Inada’s announcement an attempt by Japan to “muddy” the situation in the South China Sea for its own benefit.
“We must warn Japan that this is a miscalculation,” Yang said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website. “If Japan wants to have joint patrols or drills in waters administered by China, this really is playing with fire. China’s military will not sit idly by.”
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