Japan scrambled jets after the warplanes approached its airspace while Quad leaders were meeting in Tokyo.
Russian and Chinese military planes carried out joint exercises near Japan on Tuesday while leaders of the Quad group of countries were meeting in Tokyo, the Japanese defence minister has said, calling it “provocation”.
“Two Chinese bombers joined two Russian bombers in the Sea of Japan [known in South Korea as the East Sea] and made a joint flight to the East China Sea”, Nobuo Kishi, the Japanese defence minister, told reporters on Tuesday.
The planes did not breach Japan’s territorial airspace, the defence ministry said.
Japan scrambled jets after the warplanes neared its airspace while Tokyo was hosting the leaders of the Quad group of countries – the United States, India, Australia and Japan.
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