$alvador
TD Member
You gotta wonder if there's a bit of a reporting bias, when China announces it's taking military command of the sovereign territory of neighbouring states, and the news barely surfaces on any of the main news outlets in the west. Well, I wonder, anyway. So wrap your head around this:
Basically, over the weekend, China has declared an "East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)". This is a zone in which the Chinese have given themselves authority to shoot down any other vessels in the region which refuse to identify themselves. Such a zone would not be much of an issue, normally, for a state, but in this case the zone overlaps the disputed Senkaku islands and also territory belonging to S. Korea and Taiwan.
This is disturbing because it's a power play looooong time in the making for China to reassert control it believes it rightfully has over the entire Asia Pacific region, so the chances of a diplomatic solution are pretty much nil. That much has been asserted by the PRC, whose official response to Japan's ambassador is: "Japan must learn to accept the unaccaptable." Adding to the problems, the U.S. acknowledges Japan's lawful ownership of the Senkaku islands which brings the Security Treaty into play. Then we have the Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, whose popularity is owed to his hardline stance against Chinese aggression. Then we have the fact that China is known to have a penchant for ignoring international boundaries to engage in armed conflict with neighbours.
The only peaceful resolution to this will have to be for one side to back down. The CPC, having whipped the Chinese public into a fervour (with decades of censorship and propaganda) is not likely to back down from this, and it doesn't look like Japan is too keen to give up the resource bounty in range of those islands either. The only question remaining, and likely the one China is trying to provoke an answer to, is whether the four states they've managed to seriously piss off will capitulate to this aggression, or thrown down the gloves and sign on for a fight.
Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-...nds-new-airspace-rules-20131125508176628.html
Basically, over the weekend, China has declared an "East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ)". This is a zone in which the Chinese have given themselves authority to shoot down any other vessels in the region which refuse to identify themselves. Such a zone would not be much of an issue, normally, for a state, but in this case the zone overlaps the disputed Senkaku islands and also territory belonging to S. Korea and Taiwan.
This is disturbing because it's a power play looooong time in the making for China to reassert control it believes it rightfully has over the entire Asia Pacific region, so the chances of a diplomatic solution are pretty much nil. That much has been asserted by the PRC, whose official response to Japan's ambassador is: "Japan must learn to accept the unaccaptable." Adding to the problems, the U.S. acknowledges Japan's lawful ownership of the Senkaku islands which brings the Security Treaty into play. Then we have the Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe, whose popularity is owed to his hardline stance against Chinese aggression. Then we have the fact that China is known to have a penchant for ignoring international boundaries to engage in armed conflict with neighbours.
The only peaceful resolution to this will have to be for one side to back down. The CPC, having whipped the Chinese public into a fervour (with decades of censorship and propaganda) is not likely to back down from this, and it doesn't look like Japan is too keen to give up the resource bounty in range of those islands either. The only question remaining, and likely the one China is trying to provoke an answer to, is whether the four states they've managed to seriously piss off will capitulate to this aggression, or thrown down the gloves and sign on for a fight.
Source:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-...nds-new-airspace-rules-20131125508176628.html
