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Yesterday (24th), I was informed that Chinese and Russian military planes entered our air defense identification zone, Cadiz, without permission.
China released this video in an unusual way, and it seems to have a strong character of armed protests against Korea, the United States, and Japan.
Correspondent Kim Ji-sung, Beijing.
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This is a video of the joint training of the Chinese and Russian air forces released by the Chinese state-run CCTV military channel.
Russian TU-95 bombers leave the runway, followed by Sukhoi-30 fighters taking off.
Fighters patrol the bombers and escort them.
China received a video made by Russia and released it in an unusual way, and the bombers and fighters in the video are military aircraft that entered our air defense identification zone, Cadiz, yesterday.
Chinese and Russian military aircraft entered the Air Defense Identification Zone twice, and Korean F-15 and KF-16 fighters and Japanese fighters were also scrambled, resulting in a situation in which about 10 military aircraft from four countries gathered in the East Sea.
Although the air defense identification zone is not airspace under international law, it is customary to notify the relevant country upon entry, but China and Russia did not notify it.
China claimed it was a routine joint exercise.
[China CCTV Broadcasting: In accordance with the annual military cooperation plan of the two armies of China and Russia, a normal combined aerial strategic flight was conducted.]
However, given that the China-Russian air force joint exercises were held in winter for the past two years, analysis prevails that this time around, the demonstrations were aimed at the US President Biden's visit to Korea and Japan.
China also sent the Liaoning carrier group to the southern Japanese waters for military training, and on the 23rd, when the US-Japan summit was held, two frigates equipped with guided missiles also passed through the Korean Strait.
(Video coverage: Choi Duk-hyun, video editing: Park Chun-bae, CG: Seo Seung-hyun)