{"id":72273,"date":"2025-06-12T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/chinese-fighter-jet-in-near-miss-with-japanese-military-plane-as-pacific-tensions-rise"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:01:55","slug":"chinese-fighter-jet-in-near-miss-with-japanese-military-plane-as-pacific-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72273","title":{"rendered":"Chinese fighter jet in near miss with Japanese military plane as Pacific tensions rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J-15 fighter jet took off from Chinese aircraft carrier off Japanese coast and came within 45 metres of Japanese Self-Defence Force aircraft<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has voiced \u201cserious concern\u201d over a near miss involving one of its military planes and a Chinese fighter jet in the Pacific, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/chinese-aircraft-carrier-japan-exclusive-economic-zone-waters\">recent manoeuvres<\/a> by Chinese aircraft carrier groups have raised tensions across the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese aircraft took off from a moving aircraft carrier, the Shandong, and reportedly flew within 45 metres of a Japanese Self-Defence Force (SDF) patrol plane shortly afterwards. On Thursday, Japan\u2019s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, urged Beijing to prevent a repeat of the incident, which took place at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/chinese-fighter-jet-in-near-miss-with-japanese-military-plane-as-pacific-tensions-rise\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J-15 fighter jet took off from Chinese aircraft carrier off Japanese coast and came within 45 metres of Japanese Self-Defence Force aircraftJapan has voiced \u201cserious concern\u201d over a near miss involving one of its military planes and a Chinese fighter j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273","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\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72273\/revisions\/72317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}