How China deployed aircraft to monitor US, France, Canada, and Japan naval drill: Report
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China deployed a reconnaissance aircraft to monitor and gather intelligence on the joint naval drill by the US, France, Canada, and Japan
China deployed a reconnaissance aircraft to monitor and gather intelligence on the joint naval drill by the US, France, Canada, and Japan.
China deployed a reconnaissance plane over Pacific waters east of Taiwan last week that Chinese media said monitored and gathered intelligence on an exercise involving the navies of the United States, Japan, France, and Canada.
A Y-9 cargo aircraft variant fitted with intelligence-gathering equipment most likely monitored and collected intelligence on the exercise, Chinese state-backed Global Times reported on Sunday, citing analysts.
Two US aircraft carriers, the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, had been operating around the geopolitically important Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea since Thursday, Global Times cited a Beijing-based think tank as saying.
The islands separate the East China Sea from the Philippine Sea, and dot the West Pacific between Japan and Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.
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On Friday, the US kicked off the exercise in the Philippine Sea, with two carrier strike groups jointly operating for the first time since June 2020, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement.
The Japanese defense ministry reported the sighting of one Y-9 reconnaissance variant in the Pacific on Thursday.
Military encounters between China and the United States and its allies in the Western Pacific have risen in recent years as China has grown increasingly assertive in the East and South China Seas, as well as around Taiwan.
Days before the quadrilateral exercise, the coast guards of the Philippines, United States, and Japan held their first trilateral exercise off the coast of a western Philippine province.
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