The sheer number of Chinese warships and warplanes patrolling a disputed East China Sea island chain threatens to overwhelm Japan’s own ships and planes.
The imbalance could get worse for Japan.
The Senkaku islands, which are uninhabited, lie east of mainland China, northeast of Taiwan and west of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture. Their location makes them strategically valuable to China and Japan. Both countries claim the islands.Read More…
