■Chinese warships make circuit of Japanese archipelago:
In a show of strength, Chinese Navy warships for the first time made a circuit of the Japanese archipelago this month, sources in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces said July 22.
The vessels entered the Sea of Okhotsk, also for the first time, on July 14 through the Soya Strait, located between Hokkaido and Sakhalin, and then went out into the Pacific Ocean.