China has lodged a protest with New Zealand about the activities of a military aircraft near its coast, suggesting it had put commercial airlines at risk.<\/p>\n
Foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Friday that a P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft had \u201cconducted continuous close-in reconnaissance and harassment in the airspace and waters of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said such actions undermined China\u2019s security interests, heightened the risks of misunderstandings and miscalculations and severely disrupted civil aviation operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina urges New Zealand to strictly abide by international law and basic norms governing international relations, respect China\u2019s sovereignty and security concerns, and safeguard the safety and order of civil aviation,\u201d Guo said.<\/p>\n
It was the first public comment about the patrol and New Zealand has yet to respond to the accusations.<\/p>\n
However, last month Japan said a New Zealand P-8A stationed at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa would be monitoring illicit maritime activities \u2013 including ship-to-ship transfers involving North Korean-flagged vessels that may breach United Nations sanctions \u2013 between mid-March and mid-April.<\/p>\n
It is the ninth time New Zealand has carried out such patrols since 2018, although it is not known if the plane China complained about was involved in the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has lodged a protest with New Zealand about the activities of a military aircraft near its coast,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44455,4177,607,11508,199416,115598,1759,199417,111,43,139,69,199415,199418,199419,99965],"class_list":{"0":"post-384215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-andrew-hampton","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-christopher-luxon","12":"tag-east-china-sea","13":"tag-guo-jiakun","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-kadena-air-base","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-p-8a","21":"tag-peoples-republic-of-china","22":"tag-yellow-sea","23":"tag-zhao-leji"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}