Japan lodge protest with China over claim of air intercept incident

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Tokyo has lodge a protest with Beijing over the latter’s claim over the weekend that Japanese F-15s had fired flares close to Chinese aircraft on Dec. 10.

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Taiwan willing to let PLAAF aircraft land when having in-flight emergency

Taiwan’s Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan told lawmakers that the government is willing to let People’s Liberation Army warplanes divert to land on the island if any aircraft had an emergency during flight.

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