Japan scrambled fighters after a Chinese Y-8 was tracked heading toward the Okinawa prefecture.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets to intercept a Chinese surveillance aircraft on Monday.The Y-9 electronic intelligence-gathering plane carried out a circular patrol as it passed near islands belonging to Japan's southwesternmost prefecture, Okinawa, the U.S. ally said in a press release.
It too threaded the needle between Okinawa and Miyako and traversed the strategic Miyako Strait, but it then flew west after traversing the strategic Miyako Strait and entered airspace over the Philippine Sea.The Miyako Strait is a strategic point of interest for Beijing. It is one of the few waterways—along with the Luzon Strait between Taiwan and the Philippines—through which China's naval forces can exit the group of islands known as the first island chain and reach the open Pacific.
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