Japan and China accused each other of violating an airspace around the disputed Eastern China Sea Islands. world News

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Tokyo: Japan and China are accusing each other of violating an airspace around the Japanese controlled eastern China Sea Islands that Beijing also claims.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that it had opposed Beijing after a Chinese helicopter, which flew from one of the four Coast Guard forces in China, which on Saturday, violating the Japanese airspace for about 15 minutes, entered the regional water of Japan around the island of Senkaku.
The Ministry of Defense said that in response to the airspace infiltration, Japan’s self -defense force scrambled fighter jets.
China regularly sends Coast Guard vessels and aircraft to the water and airspaces around the islands, which China called Diyu, forced the Japanese ships to harass the area and forced Japan to scrape Jets in response.
The latest regional flap comes when Japan and China had warm relations as the two countries want to reduce losses from American tariff war.
The Japanese Foreign Ministry said it lodged “very serious protest” through the Chinese Embassy in Japan, claiming that the action of China Coast Guard violated the sovereignty of Japan and urged the Chinese government to ensure preventive measures.
China also said in a statement that it took a similar step and opposed Japan on a Japanese national aircraft in Japan, violating its airspace around the islands, saying that it was “strongly dissatisfied” about the Japanese violations of China’s sovereignty.
Japanese officials are investigating a possible relationship between small Japanese citizens aircraft flying in the area around the same time between the aerial infiltration of the Chinese Coast Guard helicopter and small Japanese citizens aircraft.
Saturday’s infiltration was the first by China as a Chinese reconnaissance aircraft violated the Japanese airspace from the southern province of Nagasaki. Chinese aircraft have also violated the Japanese airspace around Senkaku twice in the past.