China-Russia bomber patrol ‘a serious security’ concern, Japanese minister says
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Defence chief Shinjiro Koizumi said the exercise was ‘clearly intended to be a demonstration’ against Japan at a time of heightened tension.

A joint patrol by Chinese and Russian nuclear-capable bombers near Japanese airspace is a serious national security concern, the country’s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has said. In a social media post on Tuesday, Koizumi wrote that two Russian Tu-95 bombers had rendezvoused with two Chinese H-6 bombers over the East China Sea. These aircraft then conducted a joint flight around Japan from the airspace between Okinawa’s main island and Miyako Island in the Ryukyu chain to the waters off…

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