China’s carrier group crossed near Okinawa legally — sure.
But legality isn’t the same as safety.
For Japan, this isn’t ‘routine navigation.’
It’s a live-fire reminder of how close power now sails to its doorstep.
And here’s the part Beijing won’t like:
The more often China does this,
the more other countries will normalize crossing the Taiwan Strait too —
not as provocation, but as precedent.