Alert 5

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’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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The Tu-214R spy plane that Russia deployed to Syria in late July has return home on Dec. 9, tracking data from Flightradar24 shows.