MALABAR 2016 was held in the East Sea area between Sasebo Naval Base (Nagasaki, Kyushu) and Okinawa (see Kadena and Futenma) which also hosts JMSDF Naval Base, Okinawa.
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The Indian Navy and USN have regularly conducted the annual bilateral exercise named ‘MALABAR’ since 1992. Since 2007, MALABAR has been held alternatively off India and in the Western Pacific. Japan became a permanent MALABAR participant in 2015.
On June 17, 2016 at 1:55 PM “S” commented on MALABAR, China intruding into India. Also see details of rises in the Japanese defense budget:
MALABAR 2016
The US Navy, Indian Navy and Japanese Navy (Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF)) conducted joint maritime Exercise “MALABAR 2016” – in the East Sea area between Sasebo Naval Base (Nagasaki, Kyushu) and JMSDF Naval Base, Okinawa, held between June 10, 2016 and June 17, 2016.
China made aggressive actions against India and Japan as follows:
A Chinese spy ship, of the Type 815 Dongdiao-class(weighing 6,000 tonnes, many radomes and antennas) had been tracking the Indian Navy ships participating in MALABAR when the spy ship infiltrated Japanese territorial waters on June 15, 2016. [For information also see a Japanese language Sankei News report of June 15.]
A Chinese Type 815 Dongdiao-class spy ship rather reveals its "secret" mission with all those antennas and "golf ball" radomes.
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Detailed participants in MALABAR 2016:
Indian vessels included INS Sahyadri and INS Satpura (both Indian built stealthy frigates), INS Shakti (fleet tanker and support ship) and INS Kirch (corvette).ity helicopters)
US Navy vesselsincluded supercarrier USS John C Stennis (CVN 74), Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Mobile Bay, Arleigh Burke class destroyers USS Stockdale and USS Chung Hoon, one SSN, Long Range Maritime Patrol (MPA) aircraft will also participate in the exercisez). [also see USN report].
JMSDF forces included the destroyer/helicopter carrier DDH-181 Hyuga, a US-2 Search And Rescue flying boat, Japanese designed and built P-1 MPA and a Japanese built Orion P-3C)(see a JMSDF Press Release in Japanese)
China Intruding on Indian Territory
In what appears to be a coordinated provocation more than 250 soldiers of the Chinese PLA intrudedinto the disputed Indian territory in the state of Arunachal Pradesh on June 9, 2016.
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Naturally China rejected the infiltration and incursion allegations made by Japan and India.
These over-reactions of China overt MALABAR reflect its impatience. This is due to diplomatic isolation of China caused by Chinese egotism in the South East Sea.
Japanese Defense Budget Increasing
The published Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) budget [according to Wiki] for 2015 was 4.98 trillion yen (approximately US$42 billion, and roughly 1% of Japanese GDP), a rise of 2.8 percent on the previous year.
On the 31st of August, 2015, the JMoD requested a military budget of 5.1 trillion yen for the 2016 financial year, a rise of 2.2% on the 2015 budget. If approved [?], this increase would raise Japanese MoD spending to it highest level in Japan's modern history, although still leaving it in 7th place in terms of military spending world-wide, behind its regional neighbour China. [couldn’t open http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20160616/k10010558741000.html]
Sources used:
Sources used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_815_spy_ship
http://time.com/4371133/china-japan-east-south-china-sea/
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/160615/plt1606150068-n1.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/china-arunachal-pradesh-incursion-army-patrol-2854803/
http://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/exercise-malabar-2016
http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201606/20160607-01.pdf
Shttp://time.com/4371133/china-japan-east-south-china-sea/
http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/160615/plt1606150068-n1.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/china-arunachal-pradesh-incursion-army-patrol-2854803/
http://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/exercise-malabar-2016
http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201606/20160607-01.pdf