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Scouting, Signaling, And Gatekeeping: Chinese Naval Operations In Japanese Waters And The International Law Implications, Peter A. Dutton
Scouting, Signaling, And Gatekeeping: Chinese Naval Operations In Japanese Waters And The International Law Implications, Peter A. Dutton
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In October 2008, a month after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan stepped down and the more hawkish Taro Aso took office, a Chinese flotilla of four People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) ships transited from west to east through Japan's narrow Tsugaru Strait en route to the Pacific Ocean. The vessels were observed together in the Sea of Japan, headed east toward the strait, by a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) P-3C patrol aircraft; they were about twenty-five nautical miles west-southwest of Tappizaki, the cape at the northern tip of the Tsugaru Peninsula, where the Sea of Japan enters the …