War begins! US Ally Warship brutally intercepts China Navy near Miyako Strait

The Japanese Defense Ministry said it dispatched a ship and an aircraft to monitor the movements of a Chinese navy flotilla on Monday as it passed through its southwestern islands. The Joint Staff of Japan's Self-Defense Forces reported the following day that the Sugashima-class coastal minesweeper JS Shishijima was sent to shadow the Chinese vessels, which were also watched from the sky by a P-3C maritime patrol aircraft.
Photographs released on the same day confirmed the presence of the Type 052D or Luyang III-class destroyer Urumqi, the Type 054A or Jiangkai II-class frigate Linyi and the Type 903A replenishment ship Dongpinghu-all in service with China's North Sea Fleet. Tokyo, which routinely discloses the positions of foreign military vessels near its maritime borders, said the trio of Chinese ships was first detected at 4 p.m. local time on May 13 about 55 miles east of the Japanese island of Miyako.

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Always appears pro China?