Japanese netizens' helpless rage: Chinese People's Liberation Army warships circumnavigated the Japanese archipelago before returning
According to Yahoo News Japan, on the 1st, the Japanese Defense Ministry issued a statement confirming that a Chinese missile destroyer, the Shaoxing, and a supply ship, the Qiandaohu, were detected entering the East China Sea from the Miyako Strait on August 31st.
Japanese media pointed out that these two Chinese warships had been found crossing the Tsushima Strait on July 24th, then passed through the Soya Strait north of Hokkaido on August 8th, and sailed together with Russian naval vessels. Now, the Shaoxing and Qiandaohu have crossed the Pacific Ocean through the Miyako Strait into the East China Sea, meaning that this fleet has circumnavigated the Japanese archipelago.
As expected, in the comment section of this news report by Japanese media, a large number of Japanese netizens expressed their dissatisfaction with "the Chinese warships circling around the Japanese archipelago," shouting things like "Japan should be tough against China" and "The Self-Defense Forces should issue preemptive warnings to the Chinese People's Liberation Army warships."
For this, we can only say that the ranting comments from these Japanese netizens are pure "anything goes in dreams."
In fact, Japan is also one of the supporters of the U.S. "Freedom of Navigation" operations, and has repeatedly publicly supported and endorsed the "freedom of navigation" of U.S. and Philippine vessels in the South China Sea island reefs — so, since Japan likes to maintain the so-called "freedom of navigation rights," the Chinese navy can also conduct similar actions around the Japanese archipelago.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1842114864068744/
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