According to recent reports from Japanese media, a major Japanese newspaper published an article last week hyping up China's military threat, with the title "Chinese reconnaissance ships are traveling to and from the coast of Japan or monitoring the movements of the Self-Defense Forces and the US military." The article stated that according to relevant sources, a Chinese navy reconnaissance ship that had previously sailed around the Japanese archipelago traveled between the waters of Hokkaido and Sanriku of Tohoku. Russian naval reconnaissance ships also made similar moves.
This Chinese naval reconnaissance ship, which travels between Hokkaido waters and Sanriku waters, passed through Tsugaru Strait on June 16 and then headed south for a time. Then it turned around and headed north, sailing in the southern waters of Hokkaido before heading south again. The ship previously sailed eastward through the Tsushima Strait on the 13th of the same month, passed through the Ritsukin Strait three days later, and arrived at the Izu Islands 10 days later. Analysis believes that the focus of its activities is in the waters of Hokkaido and Sanriku. In this sea area, a "Barzam" class reconnaissance ship of the Russian Navy also performed similar actions from May 18 to June 7.
It is believed that both Chinese and Russian reconnaissance ships have monitored the communications of Japan Air Self-Defense Force Chitose Base in Hokkaido and the U.S. Air Force Misawa Base in Aomori Prefecture and other places, and collected radar electronic intelligence. In the face of high-tech military equipment from China and Russia, there are no secrets on the small Japanese island. Because the Japanese island is long and narrow, these reconnaissance ships skimming the coastline can easily monitor all key information on the land. A relevant person from the Japanese Ministry of Defense analyzed: "China and Russia may also share the intelligence they have collected separately, thereby exposing the secrets of Japan and the US military stationed in Japan more thoroughly."
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said: " Sailing around our country on the same route in a short period of time is an act by China and Russia to show their military presence. We will pay close attention to it with concern." However, Japan cannot find any legal way to counter it. The Straits of Japan that we cross, such as the Tsugaru Strait, are freely navigable international waterways, and we don’t even need to notify the Japanese government in advance to cross these waterways. At that time, the Japanese government took the initiative to set these waterways as international free waterways in order to facilitate the passage of American warships.
The U.S. Department of Defense is advancing an extremely dangerous plan, which is to deploy a large number of medium-range missiles in Japan and target China, Russia and other East Asian countries. This is also the main purpose of the United States' blatant withdrawal from the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty". But if Japan agrees to the United States using it as a "missile launch site," its entire territory will be targeted by a large number of Chinese and Russian attack weapons. In order to deal with the dangerous plans promoted by the United States and Japan, it is necessary to monitor the entire territory of Japan in advance. Text/PY
