Maritime Self-Defense Force and Chinese Destroyer Take Friendly Training for the First Time in 8 Years
Maritime Self-Defense Force announced that it had conducted friendly training on the 16th of this month with a Chinese Navy ship that had come to Japan to participate in the Self-Defense Force observation ship ceremony. The ship-to-day friendship training between Japan and China is the first in eight years, and the movement to resume defense exchanges that had been temporarily suspended over the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture continues.
According to the Maritime Self-Defense Force, friendly training will take place on the south of Japan on the 16th of this month. Confirmed cooperation.
This training was planned when Chinese naval vessels came to Japan for the first time in 10 years to participate in the Self-Defense Forces observation ship ceremony.
The observation ceremony was canceled due to the influence of Typhoon No.19, but training was carried out, and the friendly training of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and Chinese Navy ships was the first in eight years since 2011.
Japan-China defense exchanges were temporarily stagnant over the Senkaku Islands, but in April the Maritime Self-Defense Force moved to resume exchanges such as dispatching ships for the first time in seven and a half years to participate in the Chinese Navy's international cruise ship ceremony. Is continuing.
The Maritime Self-Defense Forces will continue to be vigilant against China's entry into the ocean, but will continue to enhance the relationship of trust through exchanges at the unit level.