Not flyovers....more like, fly-arounds.
Yes, not precise “flyovers”, but more like “fly-throughs” between islands owned by Japan and other “fly-adjacent” to territory of Taiwan. The intent is to stir up trouble & escalate tensions.
—— Dec 11, 2016
BEIJING: China patrolled the waters of a series of hotly contested islands on Sunday, a day after staging a flyover of two strategically important waterways near Taiwan and Japan.
However, the Chinese government said both these weekend exercises were routine. The exercises come shortly after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen spoke to US President-elect Donald Trump, in a call strongly denounced by China, which considers Taiwan to be Chinese territory.
At least 10 Chinese planes on Saturday flew over the Miyako Strait between two Japanese islands, Taiwan’s defence ministry said in a statement. Four planes also flew over the nearby Bashi Channel adjacent to Taiwan, according to the statement.