(Reuters) – Japan scrambled fighter jets on Wednesday after a Chinese military aircraft flew for the first time through international airspace near its southern islands out over the Pacific, in a move seen by Japan as underlining China’s maritime expansion.
Ties between China and Japan have been strained by a territorial dispute over uninhabited East China Sea islets and hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a decisive victory in upper house elections on Sunday.
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Kiyoshi Takenaka, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/iCAiJEhq1AE/
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