Senkaku Islands: Japan Sends Jets in China Row -- SKY News
Fears grow that the row over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which China also claims, could draw in the United States.
Japan has scrambled fighter jets to head off a Chinese government plane flying towards islands that are the source of tension between the two countries.
The Chinese Y-12 propeller plane went into Japan's air defence identification zone around 99 miles away from airspace surrounding the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, which Japan controls but Beijing claims as its own and calls the Diaoyu Islands.
A Japanese defence ministry official said the aircraft headed back towards China without entering the contested airspace after the jets became airborne.
The incident in the East China Sea is the first since China created its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) in November, a move which further strained relations.
Chinese government ships and planes have been spotted off the islands numerous times since Japan nationalised them in 2012.
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My Comment: This action on the part of Japan will probably escalate even further their territorial dispute with China
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