Japan’s Defense Ministry’s Unification Bureau of Internal Affairs and Communications said today that a total of six ships, including the Chinese Navy’s aircraft carrier Liaoning, were spotted sailing south between Okinawa’s main island and Miyako Island into the Pacific Ocean on the 3rd.
According to a report by the Central News Agency today, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and six other ships passed through Okinawa. Japan said to monitor the movement. The report cited the Japanese Sankei Shimbun news, Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of unification of the Shogunate said that at about 8:00 a.m. on the 3rd (7:00 a.m. Taiwan time), about 470 kilometers southwest of the male and female islands off Nagasaki Prefecture, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force frigate “Rangetsu” and P-1, P3C anti-submarine aircraft found the Chinese naval vessel Liaoning and other six ships. The six ships later passed between Okinawa’s main island and Miyako Island.
In addition to the Liaoning, there were three missile destroyers, one frigate and one high-speed combat supply ship. One of the missile destroyers, the Renhai class destroyer, sailed around the Sea of Japan for about a week in March.
The report said that Japan’s Defense Ministry judged that the six Chinese ships were sailing as part of China’s intensified maritime operations in the East China Sea, and Japan is stepping up monitoring of the six ships’ movements. The last time Japan spotted the Liaoning passing through these waters was last April. The Liaoning was commissioned in 2012 and sailed in the Pacific Ocean for the first time in 2016.
The Central News Agency said the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China responded in the evening that the national army has a good grasp of the dynamics of the sea and airspace around Taiwan, and the current situation is normal.
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