A significant maritime event has recently unfolded in the Asia-Pacific region. For the first time, a Chinese aircraft carrier, known as the Liaoning, sailed between two Japanese islands. This passage took place within Japan’s contiguous zone—a maritime area extending 24 nautical miles from the Japanese coast.

China's Liaoning aircraft carrier conducted a training mission in the western Pacific, prompting a diplomatic dispute with Japan, which accused the vessels of entering its waters. China dismissed the claims,

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan's shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan,

TOKYO: A Chinese aircraft carrier briefly entered Japan's contiguous waters for the first time, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday,

China said on Thursday its Liaoning aircraft carrier had been on a routine training mission in the western Pacific and dismissed charges by Tokyo that the vessel and its escorts had entered Japanese waters.

China’s Liaoning carrier and two Type 052D guided-missile destroyers sailed from the East China Sea into Japan’s contiguous zones passing between the islands of Yonaguni and Iriomote on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defence.

The Japanese Defense Ministry announced that the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, accompanied by two missile destroyers, was detected navigati

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered Japan's contiguous waters for the first time on Wednesday, Japan's defence ministry said, the latest in a string of military manoeuvres that has ratcheted up tensions between the neighbours.