{"id":72196,"date":"2025-06-09T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/chinese-aircraft-carrier-japan-exclusive-economic-zone-waters"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:38:58","slug":"chinese-aircraft-carrier-group-enters-waters-near-japans-easternmost-island-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72196","title":{"rendered":"Chinese aircraft carrier group enters waters near Japan\u2019s easternmost island for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Liaoning carrier, accompanied by two missile destroyers and a supply ship, entered Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone before exiting to conduct military drills<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese aircraft carrier group has entered an area of Japan\u2019s territorial waters for the first time, prompting concern in Tokyo over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>\u2019s expanding naval reach.<\/p>\n<p>The Liaoning carrier, accompanied by two missile destroyers and a supply ship, entered Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on Saturday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s defence ministry said, before exiting to conduct military drills.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/chinese-aircraft-carrier-japan-exclusive-economic-zone-waters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liaoning carrier, accompanied by two missile destroyers and a supply ship, entered Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone before exiting to conduct military drillsA Chinese aircraft carrier group has entered an area of Japan\u2019s territorial waters for the f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72197,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72196\/revisions\/72197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}