A few days ago, the activities of the Chinese and Russian navies around Japan can be said to have made Tokyo "uneasy." As we all know, Japan is extremely concerned about the movements of naval and air forces in neighboring countries. Whenever Chinese or Russian naval and air forces conduct ocean-going or long-distance training, the Self-Defense Forces will always dispatch ships and aircraft to follow them. Nowadays, as the relations between China, Russia and Japan and Russia become more and more sensitive, the Japanese government does not dare to relax at all.
According to Global Times news, starting last week, the Integrated Staff Supervision Department of the Japanese Ministry of Defense released relevant information saying that a Chinese naval intelligence collection ship was found entering the Sea of Japan through Tsushima Strait . At the same time, an electronic detection ship of the Russian Navy also sailed through the Soya Strait into the Sea of Japan. Soon, the Integrated Staff and Supervision Department announced that the Chinese Navy's fleet consisting of the Type 3055 destroyer "Lhasa", the Type 052D guided missile destroyer "Chengdu" and the Type 903A comprehensive supply ship "Dongpinghu" had been It sails northward through the Strait of Horses and into the Sea of Japan.
Just when the Japanese side was intensively tracking and analyzing the movements of the People's Liberation Army fleet, the Russian Navy seemed to have "happened" to dispatch a larger formation. It is reported that seven Russian Navy warships passed near the Izu Islands south of Tokyo. This is the first time that Russian warships have passed through the waters since the Sino-Russian joint maritime strategic cruise in October last year. After that, the Russian naval formation heading south on the Pacific side passed through the waters between the main island of Okinawa and Miyakojima4, which meant that it made more than half a circle around the Japanese archipelago.
You must know that although joint high-sea training between the Chinese and Russian navies has become more and more frequent in recent years, it is still very rare for the troops to split into two groups and cross the waterways around Japan at the same time. The intensity and scale are no less than last year's joint training. Maritime strategic cruise. Therefore, some Japanese media exclaimed: This is a "four-sided encirclement" of Japan by the Chinese and Russian fleets.
In fact, to be fair, the movements of the Chinese and Russian navies this time can hardly be said to be a coordinated joint operation, but more like a coincidence of training arrangements. But even so, it is still inevitable for the outside world to speculate. For Japan, which has always stood on the side of the Western camp since the Russia-Ukraine conflict and made "crazy noises" against Russia, it is natural to have a "guilty conscience". It is no wonder that the Japanese government is so afraid of this Sino-Russian naval fleet action.
In fact, in terms of military strength, Japan is also one of the world's largest conventional military powers, but this is the "East Asian monster house", and the size of the Self-Defense Forces is still far from comparable to that of the People's Liberation Army or the Russian Far East forces. . If the Fumio Kishida government still does not know what it means to be "low-key" and insists on following the United States to "show off its power", similar incidents of "humiliating oneself" and being "slapped in the face" may only happen more and more often.
