{"id":18900,"date":"2013-02-05T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18900"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:14:36","slug":"japan-lodges-formal-protest-after-chinese-ship-targets-japanese-ship-near-senkakudiaoyu-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/japan-lodges-formal-protest-after-chinese-ship-targets-japanese-ship-near-senkakudiaoyu-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan lodges formal protest after Chinese ship targets Japanese ship near Senkaku\/Diaoyu islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-21337444#TWEET583849\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> has the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On 30 January, something like fire-control radar was directed at a Japan Self-Defence Maritime escort ship in the East China Sea,&#8221; Mr Onodera told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said Japan&#8217;s Yuudachi vessel and the Chinese frigate were about 3km (one mile) [ed: conversion error here, 3km is about 2 miles] apart at the time, Japan&#8217;s Kyodo News reports.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the delay in filing the protest, Mr Onodera said it took the ministry until Tuesday to determine that a fire-control radar had indeed locked on the Japanese ship.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a Japanese military helicopter was also targeted with a similar type of radar by another Chinese frigate on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Directing such radar is very abnormal. We recognise it would create a very dangerous situation if a single misstep occurred,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/65680000\/gif\/_65680824_chunxiao_gas_464x386v2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Senkaku-Islands.gif\" alt=\"Senkaku\/Diaoyu Islands\" width=\"464\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has the details: &#8220;On 30 January, something like fire-control radar was directed at a Japan Self-Defence Maritime escort ship in the East China Sea,&#8221; Mr Onodera told reporters on Tuesday. The minister said Japan&#8217;s Yuudachi vessel and the Chinese frigate were about 3km (one mile) [ed: conversion error here, 3km is about 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24,5],"tags":[432,881,30],"class_list":["post-18900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-japan","category-military","tag-diplomacy","tag-eastchinasea","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4UQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18904,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18900\/revisions\/18904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}