China on Monday urged Japan to cease interfering in China-Russia joint maritime patrol and stop its irresponsible phrases and deeds that hinder the wholesome growth of China-Japan relations and undermine regional peace and stability.
The remarks had been made by Wu Qian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, at an everyday press briefing.
Chinese and Russian naval vessels held their third joint maritime patrol within the western and northern waters of the Pacific Ocean just lately. It was reported that Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force despatched ships and plane to trace the Chinese and Russian naval vessels as they sailed by means of the Soya Strait to the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Chairman of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee Mike Rogers claimed in a press release that China-Russia naval patrol close to Alaska had been “meant to intimidate” the U.S.
In response, Wu stated that the patrol, deliberate in step with annual cooperation between the Chinese and Russian armed forces, doesn’t purpose at third events and has nothing to do with the present worldwide and regional scenario.
The Chinese and Russian vessels have navigated on the excessive seas all through the patrol with strict adherence to worldwide regulation, stated Wu, who warned that shut monitoring and surveillance by the Japanese facet is extraordinarily harmful and will simply result in miscalculations and accidents.
Noting that cooperation between the Chinese and Russian forces is open and clear, which goals at defending worldwide justice and sustaining regional and world safety and stability, Wu stated that that is utterly completely different from the method of some nations that adhere to the Cold War mentality, and interact in bloc confrontation and hegemony and bullying.
(Cover: File picture of Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense. /Chinese Ministry of National Defense)
Source: CGTN