Discovering Chinese military UAV, Japan deploys fighter jets to monitor

Japan's Defense Ministry said the Chinese UAV took off from the East China Sea north of Taiwan and flew toward the Bashi Channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.

Japan's Defense Ministry said it had scrambled a fighter jet to monitor the Chinese drone. There was no immediate word on China's response.

Phát hiện UAV quân sự Trung Quốc gần Đài Loan, Nhật triển khai chiến đấu cơ - Ảnh 1. — A Japanese fighter plane

Previously, the Japanese Defense Ministry also dispatched fighter jets to monitor two UAVs that they said "may be Chinese" flying between Yonaguni Island and Taiwan on August 25.

Also on August 25, the Japanese Ministry of Defense said it had detected two Chinese H-6 bombers flying over the strait between Okinawa and Miyako islands, connecting the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the same morning.

Okinawa is home to one of the largest US military bases in the Asia-Pacific and is at the heart of a defense buildup between Japan and the US aimed at preventing China from attacking Taiwan or nearby Japanese islands, according to Reuters.

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that starting at around 7 a.m. on August 25 (local time), they detected 22 Chinese military aircraft, of which 13 flew into Taiwan's "reaction" zone, but the agency did not provide details, according to Reuters.

By the morning of August 26, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that in the previous 24 hours, they had detected 20 Chinese air force aircraft flying into the island's air defense identification zone, according to Reuters.

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