China's Ministry of National Defense on Friday denounced Japanese military aircraft's disturbing routine patrols by Chinese administrative aircraft.

The ministry confirmed that China scrambled two J-10 fighters to the East China Sea after a Y-8 aircraft was closely followed by two Japanese F-15 fighters when paroling the southwest airspace of the East China Sea oil platform on Thursday.

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