{"id":3318,"date":"2013-12-09T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T12:35:36","slug":"what-can-be-learned-from-chinas-new-air-defense-identification-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2013\/12\/what-can-be-learned-from-chinas-new-air-defense-identification-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can Be Learned from China’s New Air Defense Identification Zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"
On November 20, 2013 China announced an “East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)” that includes the air space over the disputed Diaoyu\/Senkaku Islands.\u00a0 The impression given by the press and political leaders, especially those of the U.S. and Japan, is that ADIZ is a new concept that China has introduced, that China has no right to establish this ADIZ, that China has done something evil, that there are good reasons for the U.S. and Japan to complain strongly, and that China has unnecessarily introduced instability into that region.\u00a0 However, when we study this issue further, the truth is far from the above impression.<\/p>\n
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To have a better understanding of this issue, let’s ask and answer several questions.<\/p>\n
What can we learn from China’s new ADIZ?\u00a0 Once again, what we learn is not China’s aggression, but we learn again about Japan’s new aggression, even though she still has not acknowledged and apologized for its war crimes of WWII, and about the U.S.’s complicity to use Japan as her main prawn to surround, contain, and weaken China.\u00a0 What kind of logic does the U.S. use to claim that the sovereignty of the Diaoyu\/Senkaku Islands is not settled, but these islands are included in the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty?\u00a0 We hear complains from U.S. leaders that China is building up its navy so that the U.S. dominance on the sea in Asia may be challenged.\u00a0 What kind of double standards to claim that the U.S. has the right to dominate the sea 7,000 miles from the U.S., and China should not have the right to build a stronger navy to patrol the sea only dozens or hundreds of miles from China’s coast?\u00a0 Shouldn’t we be actively seeking ways to work with China in a way that is beneficial to the U.S., China, and world peace?<\/p>\n
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[1]\u00a0 See, e.g., “Air Defense Identifcation Zone (North America)”:\u00a0 http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_%28North_America%29<\/a><\/p>\n [2]\u00a0 See, e.g., “Air Defense Identification Zone”:\u00a0 http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone<\/a><\/p>\n