Discovering Chinese military UAV, Japan deployed fighter jets to monitor

The Japanese Ministry of Defense said the Chinese UAV originated in the East China Sea north of Taiwan and flew toward the Bashi Channel, which lies between Taiwan and the Philippines.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense said it dispatched a fighter jet to track the Chinese UAV. There is no information yet on China's response.

A Japanese fighter jet

Earlier, the Japanese Ministry of Defense also dispatched fighter jets to track two UAVs that they believed "may be Chinese" flying between Yonaguni Island and Taiwan on August 25.

Also on August 25, the Japanese Ministry of Defense stated that it had detected two Chinese H-6 bombers flying over the strait between Okinawa and Miyako islands, connecting the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean , that morning.

Okinawa is home to one of the largest U.S. military bases in the Asia- Pacific and is a center for increased defense efforts by Japan and the U.S. to deter China from attacking Taiwan or nearby Japanese islands, according to Reuters.

Taiwan's defense ministry said that starting around 7 a.m. local time on August 25, they detected 22 Chinese military aircraft, 13 of which flew into Taiwan's "response zone," but the ministry did not provide details, according to Reuters.

By the morning of August 26, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that in the previous 24 hours, they had detected 20 Chinese air force aircraft flying into the island's air defense identification zone, according to Reuters.

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