Beijing announced on Saturday 23 November, the establishment of “identification area of defense aviation” in the East China Sea, whose route includes the islands under Japanese control but claimed by China .
The creation of this new air defense area is accompanied by rules to be observed all the planes that pass through, otherwise police intervention arm end, has also said the Chinese Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
Aircraft must especially provide their specific flight plan, show clearly their nationality, and maintain radio communications allowing them to “respond quickly and appropriately to requests identification” of the Chinese authorities.
The plot of this novel area air defense, as it appears in a broadcast on the website of the Ministry map shows that it covers a wide area of the East China Sea, between South Korea and Taiwan. According to this map, the area includes the islands of Senkaku Islands in Japan but claimed by Beijing as the Diaoyu control. She rides a result of Japanese territorial waters.
“DEFENSIVE MEASURES EMERGENCY”
Aircraft flying in the new zone “should follow the instructions” Chinese authorities, “the Chinese armed forces adopt emergency defensive measures in response to devices that do not cooperate with (procedures) identification or refuse to comply instructions ” , stressed the Minister. These rules are in force since Saturday 3 pm (Paris ), the statement said.
Four boatloads of Chinese coastguards were again briefly entered Friday in the waters around the Senkaku Islands – following several raids in late October and early November which had significantly heightened tensions between Beijing and Tokyo. The Japanese defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, but noted that these repeated Chinese incursions threatened peace and constituted a “gray area “between “peacetime and emergencies”.
A few days earlier, the Chinese Ministry of Defense had used the term “act of war “to warn Tokyo against any possible action against its drones.
China Creates an Air Defense Area Including the Senkaku Islands
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