On Tuesday, the US sent two long-range bombers into China’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to the flight monitor Aircraft Spots. The provocative flights took place while China was holding large naval exercises in the region.
According to Aircraft Spots, two US B-1B Lancer bombers took off from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and entered China’s ADIZ over the East China Sea. The US regularly conducts surveillance flights in the region using military spy planes. Sending B-1B bombers close to China’s coast is likely a show of force meant to send a message to Beijing.
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An ADIZ is airspace where a country requires aircraft to identify themselves in the interest of national security. Beijing set up its ADIZ in the East China Sea in 2013, which the US and Japan do not recognize.
China’s ADIZ includes airspace over the Senkaku Islands, known as the Diaoyus in China. China, Taiwan, and Japan all claim the Senkakus, and Tokyo currently administers them.
When China first established the ADIZ, the US responded by flying two B-52 bombers into the airspace. Aircraft Spots said the B-1Bs that flew in the area on Tuesday almost reached the northeast corner of Taiwan’s ADIZ. According to The South China Morning Post, the flights coincided with Chinese naval drills held simultaneously in the South China Sea, East China Sea, and Bohai Sea.
The US has significantly stepped up flights near China’s coast this year. The South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a Beijing-based think tank, recorded an uptick in US military flights earlier in the year. The SCSPI published a report last week that found the US was also using private airplanes to conduct surveillance flights in the region.
Well, the South China Seas Chinese bases work. Not really making a good argument for China to stand down though.
Any assault on the Chinese mainland, would have to take out the South China Seas bases first.
Of course, all the U.S./Euro globalist sionophobes need is just enough of an incident for an official state of war
That U.S.-China conflict, will of course end like the Korean War never ended.
Such conflict would be nuclear, and thus not end like Korea.
Not if the initial conflict was containable. China is no more in a rush to self-immolate than Iran.
There doesn’t need to be an exchange of fire. For example, if the U.S. can provoke an incident, say an unopposed Chinese military landing on the Senkakus, they could declare a state of war exists based on China’s armed ‘invasion’ of Japan.
… Then do nothing military at all. Maybe pretend to negotiate, then drop even that, whether the Chinese withdraw or not. FONOPs in the South China Sea might even continue, daring the Chinese to escalate, which would not be practical for them.
china dont own shit, the article should ssy we flew in international airspace , an area china illegally trys tp set up a ADIZ. We meed a sino dns specific bio weapon that is easily transmissible with 3 month incubation period to insure complete infection of the commies and 100 % effective death rate within 1 week from onset of symptoms. this csncer needs to be destroyed before it gets worse
You should grab a 12er o natty lite and go hunting with dick cheney
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This is not supposed to be happening at this juncture. Something is seriously wrong with what is happening.
China will doubtless send the same message right back again. The US press will then screech about the “aggression.”