Read More on the Relations Between Asia and the U.S. In the long term, China has not tried to disguise its goal of weakening the alliance between the United States and Japan and supplanting the United States as the dominant naval power in the Western Pacific. “I believe Xi Jinping and his associates must have predicted the substance of this reaction whether they underestimated the details of the reaction, I’m not sure,” said Shi Yinhong, an occasional adviser to the government and a professor of international relations at Renmin University.Ĭhina does appear determined to escalate the issue of the uninhabited islands, known as Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan, as a way of forcing the Japanese to negotiate and give up control of territory that has symbolic and strategic value for both countries. But even some Chinese analysts say they wonder if the new leadership team fully anticipated the response to the latest assertion of rights - or had in mind a clear Plan B if it met with strong resistance. Under President Xi Jinping, China has suggested that it intends to make a more robust defense of its national interests, including in maritime disputes, to match its rising economic and military power. Biden will raise the issue with Beijing when he goes on to visit China as part of the same East Asia trip.“We will make corresponding responses according to different situations and how big the threat is,” the spokesman at the Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, said when asked about China’s lack of enforcement against the American planes. Onodera said they will discuss regional security and reaffirm cooperation between the two nations on the China air-zone issue. Vice President Joe Biden is due to visit Japan this week and will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, amid the growing tension between China and Japan. surveillance planes and 10 Japanese fighters and reconnaissance aircraft inside the zone. Shen Jinke, a spokesman for China’s air force, said Friday that China scrambled some of its most advanced fighter jets, including SU-30 and J-11 fighters, to monitor two U.S. “We have no evidence of any close encounters of aircraft in the zone, so as far as we are concerned the situation in the air has been normal,” he said.Ĭol. The minister also cast doubt on Beijing’s claim that it had scrambled jets to check on aircraft inside the zone. “Taking into account all these factors, everything (China has done) has been unilateral and dogmatic,” he said. He also said the move defied international norms on the use of air space and pointed out that the setting up of such ADIZs is typically done in consultation with neighboring countries that could be affected. He said the islands are Japanese territory and as such the air space around them could never be recognized as China’s. Onodera cited some of the factors underpinning Japan’s objections to the establishment of the zone. The zone includes air space over an area including disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
The defence minister reiterated Tokyo’s condemnation of China’s move last week to set up the air-defense identification zone.īeijing announced its establishment of the air-defence identification zone on Nov. government is not calling on airlines to comply (with China’s demand) on flight plans,” Mr. “As far as we have confirmed through diplomatic channels, the U.S. Last week Japan instructed its airlines not to comply with Beijing’s flight-plan demands for the zone. Federal Aviation Administration has advised commercial airlines to comply with Chinese demands that aircraft entering the zone provide flight plans in advance.
The defense minister’s comments follow reports the U.S.
Onodera said Sunday in an interview with national broadcaster NHK. government is taking the same stance as Japan,” Mr. Japan’s defence minister denied a gap has emerged between Washington and Tokyo on the response to China’s declaration of a new air-defense zone, while condemning Beijing’s move as unilateral and “dogmatic.”ĭefence minister Itsunori Onodera also called into question whether China scrambled jets in response to the entry of planes from other nations into the zone in recent days.
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