China has yet to make any claim of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) around the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, but the Pentagon is already preemptively challenging such a declaration.
While sending the USS Fort Worth through the area near China’s naval claims, they also deployed a Seahawk helicopter as well as reconnaissance drone to “patrol the airspace.”
Pentagon officials are saying they believe an ADIZ declaration is inevitable, and that they intend to challenge it, saying they don’t believe China could enforce it.
China, for it’s part, says they believe they have every right to declare an ADIZ in islands that are part of their own territory, but that there is no security reason to actually do so at this time.
Given enough time, however, the Pentagon may create a security reason.
China should use this as an opportunity to perfect shooting down these menaces.
That's what the idiots in the Pentagon want…
China should send Obama a note indicating that all those Trillion dollars of IOU's China holds might suddenly get called in if things escalate any further. Then again, I suspect the US would just flip them a finger and declare, "Come and get it." I swear, the people in charge of the US government and it's agencies are all pissant children throwing temper tantrums – and the American people are the ones who are going to get punished.
This so-called "AMerican Exceptionalism" is going to destroy our country. What ever happened to being just a little humble.
I imagine all the T-billsChina holds are negotiable instruments that can be sold to anyone in the world, so a default on them would be a general default. On the other hand, I believe China has been gradually decreasing their holdings for some time now.
China has to have drones, if not only in secret, right?
Look like things are heating up, time to do an inventory of my
bunker to see if any additional supplies are needed.
A drone does not project presence well. It can be shot down with far less political fallout than a manned aircraft. It probably would be. It isn't a U-2 or a P-3, it's just a machine. Thus, it invites trouble.
Maybe that is the idea? They're trying to pivot, and not getting much movement yet. The Middle East is sticky, but actual shooting might do it.
BTW, nobody has clear claim on those islands, which were often abandoned and saw most everyone near them. However, among the many weak claims, China's is in many ways very good. It goes back further in time, it is linked to the WW2 expulsion of the Japanese, and it was asserted before the commies by our guys as government of China and then agreed to by the US.
Tell the Dutch their reclaimed land isn't real land.
Our bluster aimed at China is both looking for trouble and not much interested in the merits. We are on an ugly path, quite unnecessary.
Both China and Russia were humiliated in Yugoslavia But there was nothing they could do to stop the dismemberment of Yugoslavia . China told us only a few yrs ago they have not forgotten or forgiven what happened to them in Yugoslavia . Where the Chinese embassy was bombed , attacked accidently on purpose . I suspect in any conflict with NATO powers China will first take out our global positioning technology .
Against Empire expansion — Is not war a legal defense?
If a boat from China was in international waters and being spied upon by a drone, as privacy is a basic human right, surely China would have a full and perfect right to destroy the drone.
And considering that Empire USA started World War Two by preventing Japan from buying the crude oil it needed to industrialize and produce goods that would compete with those made in USA, again a basic right, it does appear that bad history may soon repeat itself.
I think Japan was also using the oil to fight and control Korea and China
Yeah, that's the beauty with History, no country or no action taken is really legitimate, there are just many shades of greed.
"privacy is a basic human right"
Interesting assertion. Care to elaborate?
MAY 3, 2015 China, Pursuing Strategic Interests, Builds Presence in Antarctica
HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/world/asia/chin…
May 2015 US “Grand Strategy” for war against China laid out
The advanced stage of discussions in US foreign policy circles over the pursuit of an ever-more aggressive policy toward China has been revealed by the recent release of a chilling report under the auspices of the influential Council on Foreign Relations. Entitled “Revising US Grand Strategy Toward China,” the report is nothing less than an agenda for war. It is authored by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis, both of whom have close connections to the US State Department and various American foreign policy think tanks.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/02/chin-…