Japan Scrambles Jets as Chinese Drone Transits Yonaguni Toward Pacific
🛰️ PACIFIC — Japan scrambled jets but couldn't stop the drone — that's the point. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A Chinese drone through the Yonaguni gap tests Japan's response without triggering engagement rules. Days after the DF-26B carrier-killer broadcast, same signal, new domain: Beijing mapping reactions, not just posturing. Tokyo scrambled; the drone completed its transit. China logged the data. That's the operation.