Sino-Japanese Military Tensions Escalating Rapidly From 2011
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Apr 22, 2014 | Views: 155 | Score: 4
Times Japanese Aircraft Scrambled Against China | |
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2011 | 156 |
2012 | 306 |
2013 | 415 |
Sources:
businessinsider.com
Times Japanese Aircraft Scrambled Against China | |
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2011 | 156 |
2012 | 306 |
2013 | 415 |
Perennially tense relations between Japan and China have drastically worsened in recent years over conflicting territorial claims to a string of uninhabited islands. There has been a near 300% increase in the scrambling of Japanese fighters against so-called Chinese infringements of Japanese sovereignty. Further exacerbating tensions, is the growing tendency to embrace aspects of Japan's past militarism by political elites.