Japan has accused the Chinese navy of aiming weapons at a Japanese warship in a “dangerous” escalation of the dispute over the Senkaku Islands.
“This is extremely abnormal behaviour,” Itsunori Onodera, Japan’s defence minister, said yesterday. “A small mistake could have led to a very dangerous situation.”
Mr Onodera said a Chinese frigate locked its fire-control radar on to a Japanese destroyer on January 30 – a move military commanders consider threatening because the device is used to calculate the firing range of missiles or guns. He added that two weeks earlier, a Chinese ship had aimed at a Japanese helicopter in the same way.
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