World politics suddenly got very interesting in the past couple of weeks. China declared an “air defence identification zone” over the East China Sea, a region that includes the Senkaku islands that are “administered” by Japan and claimed by the Chinese. This was a thinly disguised territorial grab even though aircraft are merely required to alert the Chinese authorities and stay in radio contact whilst transversing the zone. The Japanese promptly flew military planes into the zone without informing the Chinese. The Americans followed with two unarmed B-52 bombers. China responded by flying a few sorties itself but did not try to intercept the American or Japanese warplanes.
There We Go Again
There We Go Again
There We Go Again
World politics suddenly got very interesting in the past couple of weeks. China declared an “air defence identification zone” over the East China Sea, a region that includes the Senkaku islands that are “administered” by Japan and claimed by the Chinese. This was a thinly disguised territorial grab even though aircraft are merely required to alert the Chinese authorities and stay in radio contact whilst transversing the zone. The Japanese promptly flew military planes into the zone without informing the Chinese. The Americans followed with two unarmed B-52 bombers. China responded by flying a few sorties itself but did not try to intercept the American or Japanese warplanes.