A Chinese government spokesperson suggested the incident may have been unintentional.
A Chinese military aircraft that briefly violated the airspace of neighboring Japan this week may have done so unintentionally, an official in Beijing suggested on Tuesday.Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a regular press conference that both governments remained in contact through existing channels to discuss the event Tokyo had earlier described as 'extremely regrettable.
'A Chinese embassy official in Tokyo was summoned for a formal protest, but Hayashi declined to go into detail about ongoing discussions with Beijing.Japan has declared a vast air defense zone around its archipelagic territory—comprising more than 14,000 islands. The self-declared buffer is used to detect and identify foreign military aircraft.
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