China Fighter jets tail U.S and Japan fighter jet.

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China launched two fighter planes Friday to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese reconnaissance and military planes in its new maritime air defense zone over the East China Sea, state media said.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China responded on Thursday to growing international defiance of its new air-defense zone in the East China Sea both by sending advanced fighter jets to the area and trying to play down any threat of military retaliation—underlining the confusion and escalated tension over territorial disputes in East Asia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The announcement by China's air force that it had sent fighters and an early warning aircraft to patrol the zone came just a few hours after Japan and South Korea, following the U.S. lead, said their military aircraft had flown into the zone without notifying Beijing over the past few days, and would continue to do so.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7degSB9vbjcCEQyaZca9JGWDjxQIpFIHnd7EcOHKas-kWtsjaFsImCRhX4FRJTh_XHF9obZ2mSStKJH8qn-Rcqr4xYH76hxcrYTcvcZZwNb3L9gfaVBvTtXPR7-ZAZxsQeGmN8jJ0th2R/s400/112913_hn_walsh_640.jpg" width="400" /></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States and other countries have warned that the new zone could boost chances for miscalculations, accidents and conflicts, though analysts believe Beijing's move is not intended to spark any aerial confrontations but rather a long-term strategy to solidify claims to disputed territory by simply marking the area as its own.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The State Department said Wednesday it is advising U.S. airlines to take necessary steps to operate safely in China's newly declared air defense zone in the East China Sea, a day after two American B-52 bombers flew through the contested airspace.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; line-height: 27px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at a daily press briefing that the U.S. is attempting to determine whether China's new air defense zone rule requiring foreign aircraft to identify themselves applies to commercial airlines, Reuters reported.</span></div>

China Fighter jets tail U.S and Japan fighter jet.

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US B-52s Fly over China's 'Air Defense Zone'

Two B-52 bombers from Guam flew recently through China’s newly expanded air defense zone during a training flight that had been planned for a year, a Defense official told Air Force Times on Tuesday.<br /> <br /> The Wall Street Journal first reported the two bombers flew over the Senkaku Islands about 7 p.m. Monday without getting permission ahead of time from China, which announced days earlier that it was expanding its Air Defense Identification Zone to include the island chain.<br /> <br /> The bombers were not armed and Chinese aircraft did not attempt to intercept the B-52s during the aircraft, said the defense official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter. The flight was described as a routine training mission.<br /> <br /> The U.S. government has been alarmed by China’s decision to expand the air defense zone, which requires that aircraft flying in the East China Sea report their flight plans to China beforehand.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKH-Wk03zKoPZqcG4QmysvKc8UMpgWUMDxXzePuyZINfaTErsauLVNcBDx5Yr5BOBLXEQTB5oyOGWP0gKLG6gk_B_ksqUGIJ0x72S124Y7ozQ2Mi7XmYZ-V8U6mqrPW4kzAX1LNSNnIyDk/s1600/bilde.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKH-Wk03zKoPZqcG4QmysvKc8UMpgWUMDxXzePuyZINfaTErsauLVNcBDx5Yr5BOBLXEQTB5oyOGWP0gKLG6gk_B_ksqUGIJ0x72S124Y7ozQ2Mi7XmYZ-V8U6mqrPW4kzAX1LNSNnIyDk/s400/bilde.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> “We are very concerned about this escalatory development which increases regional tensions and affects U.S. interests and those of our allies,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in an email. “We have conveyed our strong concerns to China and are coordinating closely with allies and partners in the region.”<br /> <br /> An American carrier battle group and a flotilla of Japanese warships will arrive Wednesday near a vast stretch of ocean claimed by China in what is shaping up as a test of how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the U.S. will stand up to the challenge.<br /> <br /> China has been laying claim to nearly 1 million square miles of ocean known as the East China Sea, insisting that the sea’s energy resources and fisheries belong to China. Much of the ocean territory it claims is hundreds of miles from its shore, including waters off the coasts of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.<br /> <br /> On Saturday China went further than ever, announcing it had designated much of the sea as an air-defense zone it controls. The zone includes the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, a string of uninhabited islets that China calls the Diaoyus. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the zone was created to “guard against potential air threats.”<br /> <br /> “China has been pushing and testing Abe since he took office and for the most part he has been passing,” said Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Honolulu.<br /> <br /> “This is a very dumb, very risky move by China,” he said. “If the People’s Liberation Army tries to interfere (with the U.S.-Japan exercise), there will be real problems.”<br /> <br /> The challenge represents a test for Abe, a conservative party prime minister elected in 2012 who has vowed to shift Japan’s deferential military posture to a more muscular stance that recognizes its right to defend itself.<br /> <br /> On Tuesday, Abe directly confronted China, stating he would not recognize the Chinese air zone over the East China Sea or any of its claims to the Senkakus.<br /> <br /> “We will take steps against any attempt to change the status quo by use of force as we are determined to defend the country’s sea and airspace,” Abe said.<br /> <br /> Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Chinese action represents a “destabilizing attempt to alter the status quo” and “will not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region.”<br /> <br /> To that end, the U.S. Navy arrived in force Tuesday off the coast of Japan for a complex exercise in which Japanese naval ships and U.S. fighter jets, warships and submarines will practice scenarios for a possible attack on Japan.<br /> <br /> Sailing into the waters southeast of Okinawa on Tuesday to prepare for a long-planned exercise was the aircraft carrier George Washington, guided-missile cruiser Antietam, guided-missile destroyers Curtis Wilbur, Lassen, McCampbell, Mustin, maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft and a Navy submarine.<br /> <br /> China issued a protest with Japan and the U.S. government over the exercises and opposition to China’s self-claimed right to an air-defense zone over the sea. Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said Japan’s complaint about the zone is “absolutely groundless and unacceptable,” according to Japan’s Kyodo news service.<br /> <br /> Yang said Japan has “no right to make irresponsible remarks” on the sea’s airspace, portions of which have been jointly administered by Japan and the United States for decades. Yujun also urged the United States to “not take sides.”<br /> <br /> Earlier this year, Japan scrambled fighter jets when Chinese planes flew near the Senkaku islands, a rich fishing ground annexed by Japan in 1895 and purchased by the legislature in 2012. Chinese interceptor aircraft conducted the first flights into the zone after it went into force at 10 a.m. on Saturday.<br /> <br /> The Chinese moves have inflamed Japan and worried other nations that say they may now need to inform China when their commercial flights are heading over the East China Sea. It also has U.S. allies concerned that China is becoming more aggressive against them since the installation a year ago of Xi Jinping as leader of the Communist regime.<br /> <br /> But Hagel reaffirmed the U.S. military commitment to the 1952 U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty that commits Washington to intervene in defense of Japan if there is an attack on Japanese-administered territory. And Abe has backed up his belief that Japan must modify its stance held since World War II that Japan’s defense can be outsourced entirely to the United States.<br /> <br /> Abe has been pressing for Japan to raise its readiness and play a bigger role in global security since he came to power in December 2012 and won a majority for his Liberal Democratic Party in the upper house of the Japan legislature in July.<br /> <br /> Defense spending in Japan has seen its largest increase in 22 years, says Kyodo. The spending has zeroed in on boosting Japan’s capabilities to defend against amphibious assaults.<br /> <br /> But Abe has yet to garner the votes to change Japan’s constitution so its defense forces can project the full military powers of a sovereign state. The constitution, written by the U.S. military after the defeat of Japan in WWII, restrains what Japan can do militarily.<br /> <br /> The U.S. military retains bases in Japan, primarily in Okinawa, and exercises between the two militaries have grown in size and complexity in recent years.<br /> <br /> Although precise locations have not been announced for the latest exercise, specific training events — which will include land-based patrol planes and other aircraft — are supposed to take place across large stretches of Japanese and international airspace, including parts of the East China Sea.<br /> <br /> China’s Ministry of National Defense announced that any foreign aircraft entering its newly drafted “East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone” must file a flight plan with Chinese authorities, stay in two-way radio contact and follow other instructions.<br /> <br /> Failure to do so will result in “defensive emergency measures” by China’s armed forces, according to the statement.<br /> <br /> It is not clear why China chose to announce the new air restrictions now, said Narushige Michishita, Director of the Security and International Studies Program at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Whether Jinping approved of it or the military demanded it is unknown, Michishita said.<br /> <br /> “It is a scary scenario,” Michishita said. “What happens next is up to China.”

US B-52s Fly over China's 'Air Defense Zone'

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China's New Air Defense Zone

<div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China is establishing new  Air defense zone in the sea .Japan say it will take this issue in the the UN  and will try to not develop the Air defense zone in the area of the Japan </span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What appears to be a crisis in the ma<span style="text-align: center;">king, China’s Ministry of National Defense (MOD) has established the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) effective as of 10 a.m. on Nov. 23.</span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The zone covers the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islets claimed by China, Japan, and Taiwan. The islets are under the administrative control of Japan. China has been flying unmanned aerial vehicles into the area of the islets and Japan has threatened to shoot them down.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjNHElExCAGDbPrqprGF8phqlOo38FWSbahfBiqPG36Z_tqk202KoaYD2unvudeMNQ9xc27hL1on9MqZmQhdEKmasbs6EsXhnOb0kIotAL1I35zNYeGt9GziHUEPBysY7QLSDW-hHRyDi/s1600/uugukjl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjNHElExCAGDbPrqprGF8phqlOo38FWSbahfBiqPG36Z_tqk202KoaYD2unvudeMNQ9xc27hL1on9MqZmQhdEKmasbs6EsXhnOb0kIotAL1I35zNYeGt9GziHUEPBysY7QLSDW-hHRyDi/s400/uugukjl.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China launched two aerial patrols, one Tu-154 and one Y-8, over the area the day of the announcement and Japan deployed two F-15 fighters to intercept.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China’s ADIZ overlaps Japan ADIZ by approximately half, causing concern the overlap could start a war.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Chinese ADIZ also overlaps Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC). According to a Nov. 24 statement by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan will “adhere to the principles set forth in the East China Sea Peace Initiative [set forth by President Ma Ying-jeou on Aug 5), with the aim of resolving disputes peacefully, while taking appropriate measures to ensure the safety of ROC airspace.” Ma’s five-point peace initiative urges all “parties to refrain from antagonistic actions; not abandon dialogue; observe international law; resolve disputes through peaceful means; and form a mechanism for exploring and developing resources on a cooperative basis.”</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">US Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement on Nov. 23 urging China not to impose a “unilateral action” that “constitutes an attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea.” Further, the US is “deeply concerned” about the announcement and “escalatory action will only increase tensions in the region and create risks of an incident.”</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Below is a collection of Chinese MOD press releases since the announcement:</span></div> </div> <h3 style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 160px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> MOD Press Release:</span></h3> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China, in accordance with the Statement by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on Establishing the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, now announces the Aircraft Identification Rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone as follows:</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must abide by these rules.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must provide the following means of identification:</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1. Flight plan identification. </b>Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone should report the flight plans to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China or the Civil Aviation Administration of China.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2. Radio identification.</b> Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must maintain the two-way radio communications, and respond in a timely and accurate manner to the identification inquiries from the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone or the unit authorized by the organ.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3. Transponder identification.</b> Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, if equipped with the secondary radar transponder, should keep the transponder working throughout the entire course.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>4. Logo identification. </b>Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must clearly mark their nationalities and the logo of their registration identification in accordance with related international treaties.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Third, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone should follow the instructions of the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone or the unit authorized by the organ. China’s armed forces will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not cooperate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fourth, the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China is the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fifth, the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China is responsible for the explanation of these rules.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sixth, these rules will come into force at 10 a.m. Nov. 23, 2013.</span></div> </div> <h3 style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 160px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> MOD Press Release:</span></h3> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The zone is being established in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on National Defense (March 14, 1997), the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Civil Aviation (October 30, 1995) and the Basic Rules on Flight of the People’s Republic of China (July 27, 2001).</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The zone includes the airspace within the area enclosed by China’s outer limit of the territorial sea and the following six points: 33º11’N and 121º47’E, 33º11’N and 125º00’E, 31º00’N and 128º20’E, 25º38’N and 125º00’E, 24º45’N and 123º00’E, 26º44’N and 120º58’E.</span></div> </div> <h3 style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 160px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> MOD Q&A</span></h3> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Nov. 23, China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun took questions from the media on the issue:</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following is the full text released by the MOD:</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Q: </b>Why does the Chinese government decide to establish the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone? Is it related to the current situation in the region?</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A: </b>Air Defense Identification Zone is an area of air space established by a coastal state beyond its territorial airspace to timely identify, monitor, control and react to aircraft entering this zone with potential air threats. It allows early-warning time and provides air security.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the international practice, the Chinese government sets up the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone with the aim of safeguarding state sovereignty, territorial land and air security, and maintaining flight order. This is a necessary measure taken by China in exercising its self-defense right. It is not directed against any specific country or target. It does not affect the freedom of over-flight in the related airspace.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Q: </b>What is the basis for China to establish the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone?</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A:</b> The setup of East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone by the Chinese government is not only based on adequate legitimate reference, but also in accordance with current international practice. Since the 1950s, more than 20 countries including some major countries and China’s neighboring countries have successively established Air Defense Identification Zones. Chinese government’s relevant behavior is in line with the UN Charter and other international laws and customs. China’s domestic laws and regulations such as the Law of the PRC on National Defense, the Law of PRC on Civil Aviation and Basic Rules on Flight have also clearly stipulated on the maintenance of territorial land and air security and flight order.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Q: </b>How is the coverage of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone defined? Why is the boundary of the Zone only 130 km away from some country’ territory?</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A: </b>The coverage of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone is defined by China’s need for air defense and maintaining flight order.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually the easternmost point of the Zone is so close to China that combat aircraft can soon reach China’s territorial airspace from the point. Therefore it is necessary for China to identify any aircraft from this point to assess its intentions and examine its identities so as to allow enough early-warning time for responsive measures in maintaining air security. In addition, some country established Air Defense Identification Zone as early as in 1969. The shortest distance from their zone to the Chinese mainland is also 130 km.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Q: </b>What responding measures will the Chinese side take when foreign aircraft enter the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone?</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A: </b>Announcement of the Aircraft Identification Rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone of the People’s Republic of China has made specific rules on the identification of aircraft in related airspace. In the face of air threats and unidentified flying objects coming from the sea, the Chinese side will identify, monitor, control and react depending on different situations. We hope that all parties concerned work actively with the Chinese side to jointly maintain flight safety.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What needs to be specified is that the Chinese side has always respected the freedom of over-flight in accordance with international law. The establishment of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone does not change the legal nature of related airspace. Normal flights by international airliners in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone will not be affected in any way.</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Q: </b>Will China establish other Air Defense Identification Zones?</span></div> </div> <div style="color: #2c2c2c; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A:</b> China will establish other Air Defense Identification Zones at the right moment after necessary preparations are completed.</span></div> </div>

China's New Air Defense Zone

China is establishing new  Air defense zone in the sea .Japan say it will take this issue in the the UN  and will try to not develop the A...

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China Tests Stealth Combat Drone

<div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken US B2 bomber and hailing the advance toward Western-level technology.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The test flight of the “Sharp Sword” unmanned aircraft is another step in China’s years-long military build-up, with its defence spending now the second highest in the world and growing by double-digit percentages each year.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It comes weeks after Tokyo said a drone had flown near East China Sea islands claimed by both it and Beijing, ratcheting tensions between the rivals up another notch.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.defencetalk.com/china-tests-first-stealth-combat-drone-media-49717/" style="background-color: white; color: #154a7f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="China tests first stealth combat drone: media"><img alt="China tests first stealth combat drone: media" class="Thumbnail thumbnail post-cover" src="http://www.defencetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ku-china-stealth-combat-drone-310x174.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(185, 197, 201); height: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: middle; width: 370px;" width="370" /></a></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The successful flight shows the nation has again narrowed the air-power disparity between itself and Western nations,” the China Daily newspaper said, adding the flight made China the “fourth power… capable of putting a stealth drone into the sky”.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Images posted online showed a sleek grey delta-wing aircraft apparently powered by a jet engine and resembling an American combat drone.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beijing is steadily building its military muscle and unveiled its first stealth fighter, the J-20, in early 2011, though it is not expected to enter service until 2018.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">China’s first aircraft carrier — refurbished vessel purchased from Ukraine and named the Liaoning — went into service in Sept 2012, but is not expected to be fully operational for several years.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sharp Sword might be intended for eventual use with the aircraft carrier and for “long endurance” surveillance missions, said Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the US-based think tank International Assessment and Strategy Center.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This demonstrates the enormous investment that China is making toward building a world class level of military power,” he said in an email.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This type of aircraft “will greatly complicate the defence” of other countries, including Japan and the US, he added.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A drone was at the centre of a recent spat between Beijing and Tokyo, whose dispute over islands known as Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese has raised concerns of conflict.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An unidentified unmanned aircraft flew near the islands in September, where China routinely conducts maritime patrols, prompting Japan to scramble fighter jets.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The aircraft came from the northwest and returned in that direction, a Japanese defence official said.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tokyo later threatened to shoot down any such aircraft, a move that Beijing warned would amount to an “act of war”.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chinese state media widely reported the new aircraft in close detail, although they said the test-flight was first revealed by ordinary Internet users on a popular military web forum cjdby.net.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chinese authorities quickly censor any news or images exposed online by citizens that they deem sensitive, so it is unlikely they did not approve the reports.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">State broadcaster CCTV, citing eyewitnesses, said on its international channel that the test flight lasted 20 minutes on Thursday afternoon in the southwestern city of Chengdu.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The flight “implies that China has made the leap from drones to combat drones”, it said, calling it the move of “major significance”.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hong Kong-based military expert Andrei Chang said that by producing a heavy combat drone China had achieved a milestone claimed by few countries, but added that the aircraft’s design appeared “a little bit naive”.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike the American version, the engine appeared to be exposed, which would reduce its stealth capabilities, said Chang, editor of the Kanwa Defence Review Monthly, adding that China did not have “enough experience” in the field.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The aircraft was developed by two subsidiaries of Aviation Industry Corp of China, the country’s top aircraft manufacturer, the China Daily said.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

China Tests Stealth Combat Drone

China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken US B2 b...

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