Japan stated on Monday it scrambled jet combatants and dispatched plane and warships over the last weeks to preserve tabs on China’s Liaoning plane service and 5 warships that performed naval manoeuvres and flight operations withinside the Pacific.

Japan monitored the operations after the Chinese naval group, which protected missile destroyers, sailed among the primary Okinawa island and Miyakojima island into the Western Pacific from the East China Sea on Dec. 16, Japan’s Ministry of Defence stated in a press release.

Before returning the equal manner on Sunday, the Chinese service performed greater than three hundred take-offs and landings of fixed-wing plane and helicopters, delivered the ministry, which did now no longer file any incursions into Japanese territorial waters or skies.

While China has performed comparable operations withinside the past, which includes one in May, the state-of-the-art large-scale navy drills near Japanese islands come after Japan introduced it’d double defence spending over the subsequent 5 years in a bid to discourage China from the use of its navy to push territorial claims withinside the region, which includes towards neighbouring Taiwan.

Japan additionally mentioned that it had detected flights via way of means of a Chinese WZ-7 drone near Miyakojima on Sunday and once more on Monday, the primary time it has noticed the high-altitude drone withinside the area.