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There is another signal of contempt: The government in Tokyo ignored China’s new air defense zone. As US bomber aircraft of the Japanese Air Force by the military zone over the East China Sea are now flown.

Japan and the U.S. does not accept the set up by China air defense zone over the East China Sea. Each of flying machine is to log in the future, so it wants Beijing. However, both the government in Washington as well as the leadership in Tokyo disregard this statement demonstrative.

Aircraft of the Japanese Air Force and Coast Guard are officially launched at a patrol flight on Thursday and it flew in the disputed zone. Incidents did not happen, said a Japanese government spokesman. There had been “no specific responses” from the Chinese side. “We have our normal patrol operations does not change in the area,” said a spokesman for the Coast Guard to the AFP. The flights were not reported China. Beijing but I sent no own aircraft.

The Chinese government had threatened a military response if the instructions for new “defense zone” would be disregarded. As such, all machines that cross the airspace, its schedule and the origin must be registered and provide a radio link to the Chinese authorities. As justification for the step called the Defense Department to “protection against possible air attacks.”

An Overview of the Japanese (green) and Chinese (orange) air defense area. The common air space was so far over the disputed islands.
An Overview of the Japanese (green) and Chinese (orange) air defense area. The common air space was so far over the disputed islands.

Background of the conflict is the dispute between China and Japan to an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea. Beijing raises for years entitled to the controlled Tokyo islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

The U.S. government has also made ​​it clear that they will not accept the new unilaterally created by China rules. On the night of Tuesday, the U.S. military broke through the air defense zone and demonstratively left two bombers of the type B-52 flying through the area. China has not been notified about the maneuvers of the American B-52 bombers. The Defense Ministry in Beijing responded behave and announced on Wednesday, the two U.S. aircraft were “observed” and been “identified”.

Japan-China Island Dispute:US government warns American Airlines

A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island , Minamikojima and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea
A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island , Minamikojima and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wants to complain to the visit to Beijing next week about the military zone. A representative of the U.S. government said that Biden will point his interlocutors to a “pattern of behavior arising”, which was perceived by China’s neighbors as “worrying”.

The U.S. government also called on all U.S. airlines to take necessary security measures to the rules for commercial aircraft had been resolved. Japanese Airlines, however, want – as the government in Tokyo – the new zone in the East China Sea not respect you.

Japan-China Island Dispute:China challenged with driving an aircraft carrier

Also in the South China Sea, China has claims on island groups also claim the other states for themselves. Carefully neighboring countries should therefore observe the exercise track of the Chinese aircraft carrier "Liaoning", (Former Russian Black Sea Fleet ship Varyag) which is controlled by Taiwan and has taken courses on the South China Sea.
Also in the South China Sea, China has claims on island groups also claim the other states for themselves. Carefully neighboring countries should therefore observe the exercise track of the Chinese aircraft carrier “Liaoning”, (Former Russian Black Sea Fleet ship Varyag) which is controlled by Taiwan and has taken courses on the South China Sea.

China had also troubled with a training cruise of the aircraft carrier “Liaoning” its neighbors. The ship headed on Thursday to Taiwan over, reports the official news agency Xinhua. It headed towards the South China Sea – the area of approximately two million square kilometers, is economically and militarily very important. It connects the Indian Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, over the adjacent sea lanes more than half the annual tonnage of all the navies of the world trade is shipped and handled a third of total shipping.

As in the East China Sea dispute China in the South China Sea with other states to island groups – including Malaysia and Vietnam, but also with Taiwan. The “renegade province” is central to China. With the “Anti-Spin-law” Beijing has stipulated that it could respond to a declaration of independence of Taiwan “non-peaceful means”.

China’s navy said on Thursday only from a “normal” practice use of the aircraft carrier, the hitherto used only for training purposes, and is accompanied by two cruisers and two frigates.

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