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U.S. Said Making Daily Flights Into China’s Air Zone
By David Lerman - Nov 29, 2013 2:33 PM ET
The U.S. military is conducting daily flights through China’s newly
declared air-defense zone without notifying Beijing authorities in advance,
a U.S. defense official said today.
Enlarge image U.S. Making Daily Flights Into China’s Air Zone, Pentagon
Says
The disclosure indicates that U.S. flight activity in the area, where China
has unilaterally sought to exert control, is more extensive than was
previously known. The Pentagon had acknowledged a flight by two unarmed B-52
bombers through the air zone earlier this week.
The defense official, who asked not to be named discussing military
operations, wouldn’t specify the type of aircraft used in subsequent
flights nor say whether any of them are armed.
“It’s very important the U.S. signal to the Chinese that we’re not going
to be bullied and that we’re going to adhere to our commitments,” which
include a defense treaty with Japan, said Nicholas Burns, a former U.S.
undersecretary of state for political affairs from 2005 to 2008.
China for a second day today sent fighter planes into the air zone over an
area that includes islands claimed by both China and Japan. The situation “
certainly holds the real potential for a crisis,” said Dean Cheng, a senior
research fellow at the Asian Studies Center of the Heritage Foundation in
Washington.
China’s assertion and the subsequent flights have increased tensions which
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will seek to defuse when he visits Japan,
China and South Korea next week. Biden will convey U.S. concerns about China
’s air zone and seek clarification from Chinese leaders on their intentions
, according to an administration official who briefed reporters on condition
of anonymity because the talks will be private.
‘Provocative’ Behavior
China’s “provocative” behavior toward its neighbors in the region “now
becomes a very prominent issue for the visit,” said Burns, who is now a
professor of international relations at Harvard University’s Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Biden is “well-positioned to play a calming role hopefully to defuse this
crisis, in a way that is supportive of our primary friend, the government of
Japan,” Burns said in an interview.
China announced the air-defense identification zone effective Nov. 23 and
said its military will take “defensive emergency measures” if aircraft
enter the area without reporting flight plans or otherwise identifying
themselves.
Japan, which denounced the move, told its airlines to stop providing flight
plans to China. Japan and South Korea also have flown military aircraft
through the air zone in recent days, testing China’s resolve to control a
swath of the East China Sea that is central to a territorial dispute.
‘Destabilizing Attempt’
Japan and China both claim sovereignty over islands known as Diaoyu in
Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese. The surrounding waters are rich in oil,
natural gas and fish.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has called China’s air zone “a destabilizing
attempt to alter the status quo in the region” and warned that it “
increases the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculations.”
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York,
wrote a Twitter posting warning of the “real chance” of a military
incident involving China, Japan and others over the air zone. Haass, a
former State Department official, said the “challenge will be to manage”
the situation and avoid an escalation.
While the U.S. is probably responding correctly, the military flights pose
the danger of a conflict, most likely by accident if warning shots are fired
that could be misinterpreted, Cheng said in an interview.
‘Powder Keg’
“It is a multilateral powder keg,” he said. “You’re talking about
something that will inevitably spill over to broader diplomatic relations
and economic relations.”
The U.S. defense official said the Pentagon’s flights through China’s air
zone are consistent with U.S. freedom-of-navigation policies that are
applied to many areas of operation around the world.
Chinese planes were deployed in the zone off the country’s eastern coast
and identified Japanese aircraft in the area, China’s Defense Ministry said
in a statement on its website. Yesterday, Chinese planes entered the area
on normal patrols, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The Chinese Defense Ministry statement also said its planes identified U.S.
aircraft, without specifying whether they entered the air-defense zone.
Japanese Flights
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said today he would respond to China’s
air zone in a “calm, assured manner.” Japan and the U.S. plan to step up
air surveillance in the East China Sea, with Japan stationing E-2C airborne
early-warning aircraft at the Naha base in the Okinawa region and expanding
the use of unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, the Yomiuri newspaper reported
today, without citing a source.
South Korea is considering expanding its own air-defense zone in response to
China’s move, Wee Yong Sub, spokesman for the Defense Ministry said today
in Seoul.
“This is one of the most serious challenges ever posed by China to freedom
of movement both on the sea and in the sky and will affect very seriously
the forward deployment of the United States,” Tomohiko Taniguchi, an
adviser to Japan’s Abe, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
Japan’s major airlines, including ANA Holdings Inc. and Japan Airlines Co.,
have been flying through the zone without coordinating with China, all
without incident.
U.S. airlines “are being advised to take all steps they consider necessary
to operate safely in the East China Sea region,” State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Nov. 27.
Hagel called Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on Nov. 27 to assure
the U.S. ally of support and its commitment to continued military
operations in the region.
Hagel commended Japan “for exercising appropriate restraint” and he “
pledged to consult closely with Japan on efforts to avoid unintended
incidents,” according to a Pentagon statement.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Lerman in Washington at
d******[email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: John Walcott at jwalcott9@
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【在 g**1 的大作中提到】
: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-29/u-s-said-making-daily-
: U.S. Said Making Daily Flights Into China’s Air Zone
: By David Lerman - Nov 29, 2013 2:33 PM ET
: The U.S. military is conducting daily flights through China’s newly
: declared air-defense zone without notifying Beijing authorities in advance,
: a U.S. defense official said today.
: Enlarge image U.S. Making Daily Flights Into China’s Air Zone, Pentagon
: Says
: The disclosure indicates that U.S. flight activity in the area, where China
: has unilaterally sought to exert control, is more extensive than was
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发帖数: 752 | 3 Welcome on board! 这侧面说明中国的设立防空识别圈是成功的， 也是中国空军练军
的好机会。 | c*****a
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发帖数: 27535 | | t***o
发帖数: 4265 | 6 你党是啥党？胡温党？党纲是啥？
你这种党徒就会意淫，比阿q还厉害。
【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: 被我党耍的团团转
| m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | 7 嗯，美国在圈里团团转不是被我党耍的，老将高兴了吧？
【在 t***o 的大作中提到】
: 你党是啥党？胡温党？党纲是啥？
: 你这种党徒就会意淫，比阿q还厉害。
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