Pentagon Prepared to Defend US Planes in China Def

Pentagon Prepared to Defend US Planes in China Defense Zone

A Pentagon spokesman says the United States will not comply with China’s new air defense zone in the East China Sea and is prepared to defend its aircraft that enter the region.

Shortly after China declared it was establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a statement condemning the move and saying the new Chinese policy would not in any way change how the United States conducts military operations in the region.

On Monday, Pentagon spokesman U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren made the U.S. position even clearer.

“When we fly into this aerial zone we will not register a flight plan. We will not identify our transponder, our radio frequency, and our logo,” he said.

Those were the four things that Warren said China was now requiring of all aircraft entering the zone, which includes the Senkaku islands over which Beijing has a dispute with Japan.

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The Chinese are sending an aircraft carrier and two destroyers to the island which will try to enforce the Chinese claim to the island. This is a very volatile situation and it appears there could  be a confrontation.

Aljazeera.net translated from Arabic

China announced Tuesday to send an aircraft carrier to South China Sea region which claimed sovereignty with neighbours amid high tension because of its new air control zone, prompting angry reactions, particularly Japan.

AFP said that the aircraft carrier "Liaoning" left the port of Qingdao, East China, was heading south in the first task in the South China Sea, according to the Chinese Navy on one of its Web sites.

And the aircraft carrier in active service for more than a year, the two destroyers equipped with missile launcher and two frigates to rocket as the new China news agency Xinhua that the job was "a necessary stage of experimentation and training" for equipment and personnel.

The Agency quoted maritime officials as saying that the task represents a normal training program scheduled for the carrier, while military analysts predicted that China uses for training.

It was not known by carrying over the South China Sea, which the Group of disputed islands between China and Southeast Asian countries.

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And Josh Ernest spokesman US President Barack Obama lamented the decision, saying it's "escalating".
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Beijing has declared unilaterally on Saturday-the control over East China Sea Islands and Senkaku I include-archipelago of Japan, and demands control over China's sovereignty as the Diaoyu.
The announcements came after Japan Airlines said it was complying with rules Beijing set down at the weekend, effectively giving it control over the airspace above a swathe of the East China Sea criss-crossed by vital transport lanes.

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comment: Although some of this could be posing as each country bangs its drums to demonstrate control in the region, putting fire power of this magnitude into close proximity is always dangerous.



Medclinician

Just read up on the history of these islands. They have been Chinese territory for many thousands of years. Only recently has Japan claimed them. 

Pentagon builds forces in Pacific, eyes China

Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY 6:25 p.m. EST November 25, 2013

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Sorry my bad. It seem i can cut and paste. Old man moment...