AMERICAN B-52 BOMBERS IGNORE CHINESE DEMAND ON DISPUTED AIRSPACE, AND CHINA’S NOT HAPPY
Nov. 27, 2013 7:54am Associated Press
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BEIJING (AP) — China said Wednesday it monitored two unarmed U.S. bombers that flew over the East China Sea in defiance of Beijing’s declaration it is exercising greater military control over the area.
China monitors two American B 52 bomber flights over disputed islands
FILE – In this Sept. 2012 photo, the tiny islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese are seen. China said Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 it had monitored two unarmed U.S. bombers that flew over the East China Sea in defiance of Beijing’s declaration it was exercising greater military control over the area. Tuesday’s flight of the B-52 bombers underscored U.S. assertions that it will not comply with Chinese demands that aircraft flying through its newly declared maritime air defense zone identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File)
Tuesday’s flight of the B-52 bombers underscored U.S. assertions that it will not comply with Chinese demands that aircraft flying through its newly declared maritime air defense zone identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions.
A Chinese Defense Ministry statement Wednesday said the planes were detected and monitored as they flew through the zone for two hours and 22 minutes. It said all aircraft flying through the zone would be monitored, but made no mention of a threat to take “defensive emergency measures” against noncompliant aircraft that was included in an announcement on Saturday.
“China has the capability to exercise effective control over the relevant airspace,” said the brief statement, attributed to an unidentified ministry spokesman.
Asked repeatedly about the incident at a regularly scheduled briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said it had been handled according to procedures laid out in the Saturday statement but offered no specifics.
“Different situations will be dealt with according to that statement,” Qin said.
The U.S. described the flights as a training mission and said they were not flown in response to China’s move to assert its claim of sovereignty over a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan. U.S. officials said the two B-52 bombers took off from their home base in Guam around midday and were in the zone that encompasses the disputed islands for less than an hour before returning to their base, adding the aircraft encountered no problems.
The bomber flights came after State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said China’s move appeared to be an attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea.
“This will raise regional tensions and increase the risk of miscalculation, confrontation and accidents,” she told reporters.
The U.S., which has hundreds of military aircraft based in the region, has said it has no intention of complying with the new Chinese demands. Japan likewise has called the zone invalid, unenforceable and dangerous, while Taiwan and South Korea, both close to the U.S., also rejected it.
Australia also said it called in the Chinese ambassador to express concern about the sudden zone declaration.
“The timing and the manner of China’s announcement are unhelpful in light of current regional tensions, and will not contribute to regional stability,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.
Beijing’s move fits a pattern of putting teeth behind its territorial claims and is seen as potentially leading to dangerous encounters depending on how vigorously China enforces it — and how cautious it is when intercepting aircraft from Japan, the U.S. and other countries.
Chinese reaction to the bomber flights was predictably angry, with some recalling the 2001 collision between a Chinese fighter and a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace off China’s southeastern coast — the kind of accident some fear China’s new policy could make more likely. The Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, was killed in the crash and the U.S. crew forced to make a landing on China’s Hainan island, where they were held for 10 days and repeatedly interrogated before being released.
“Let’s not repeat the humiliation of Wang Wei. Make good preparations to counterattack,” wrote Zheng Daojin, a reporter with the official Xinhua News Agency on his Twitter-like Weibo microblog.
Businessman Li Pengliang said the island dispute had heightened anti-Japanese sentiment, but doubted the chances of an open conflict.
“The public is outraged, but I still believe that the leaders in power are sober minded. They will not act on impulse,” Li said.
Still others criticized the government’s handling of what they termed a battle of psychological pressure and international public opinion. “China is terrible at telling its side of the story. The silent one is the loser so why don’t they better explain our response to the American bomber flight,” wrote Hu Xijin, editor of the nationalist tabloid Global Times, on his blog.
It wasn’t clear whether Beijing had anticipated the forceful response from Washington and others, or how well it is prepared to back up its demands.
Chinese scholars, who often serve as ad-hoc government spokesmen, criticized Tuesday’s flights as a crude show of force and said Beijing wasn’t looking for a fight.
“It’s not that China didn’t want to enforce its demands, but how do you expect China to react?” said Zhu Feng, an international security expert at Peking University.
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China says it monitored U.S. B-52s that flew through its new air zone
By Jethro Mullen, CNN
November 28, 2013 -- Updated 0259 GMT (1059 HKT)
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The Chinese military says it identified the U.S. military aircraft
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Washington and Tokyo have criticized Beijing's declaration of the new zone
They say it increases tensions and raises risks of an incident
Hong Kong (CNN) -- Tensions are running high in the skies between China and Japan -- and the United States is refusing to stay on the sidelines.
After Beijing upset the region by declaring a new air defense zone over a large part of the East China Sea, two unarmed U.S. B-52 bombers flew through the area in what the U.S. State Department said was a planned military exercise.
The U.S. aircraft ignored China's new demands that planes that fly through the zone identify themselves and submit flight plans to Chinese authorities -- despite Beijing's warnings that it could take military measures against aircraft that failed to comply.
The delicate situation is a test of how China's increasingly assertive approach beyond its borders will play out against the U.S. government's promise to focus more on Asia and uphold commitments to its allies.
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"China is busy designing and implementing a bolder foreign policy in light of an anticipated U.S. decline," Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, director of Asia-Pacific programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, writes in a commentary for CNN.com this week.
The air zone declaration is a clear example of the new approach of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has been in power for about a year, according to Kleine-Ahlbrandt.
"Unlike his predecessors, Xi is making foreign policy with the mindset of a great power, increasingly probing U.S. commitments to its allies in the region and exploiting opportunities to change the status quo," she says.
But for the time being, the U.S. government is standing its ground in the East China Sea.
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War of words
The United States and Japan have criticized Beijing's air defense announcement, saying it escalates tensions in the region and raises the risk of an incident. They say they won't recognize the new zone.
China hit back at those comments with strong words of its own, describing the U.S. and Japanese statements as unreasonable and unacceptable.
After news of the U.S. flights emerged, the Chinese defense ministry responded cautiously Wednesday, saying it had monitored the planes' activity on the edge of the air defense zone. The statement held back from criticizing the U.S. action.
At a regular briefing later Wednesday, a journalist asked a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman if Beijing is concerned it will now be seen as a "paper tiger."
"I want to emphasize that the Chinese government has enough resolution and capability to safeguard the country's sovereignty and security," the spokesman, Qin Gang replied.
Simmering dispute
The bomber flights are the strongest American involvement yet in a festering territorial dispute in the region between China and Japan over a set of small, uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.
After China's air defense declaration Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reiterated American support for Japan, where thousands of U.S. troops are stationed as part of a security agreement.
He said the U.S. Japan Mutual Defense Treaty applies to the disputed islands, known as Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China.
Uneasy encounters between Chinese and Japanese planes and ships have already taken place repeatedly over the past year near the islands, which are believed to have large oil reserves located near them.
Tensions spiked after the Japanese government purchased some of the islands from a private owner in September 2012, angering Chinese authorities, who saw the move as an attempt by Japan to tighten control.
Hagel warned that China's "unilateral action" of declaring the air defense zone "increases the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculations."
Amid the tensions, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit the region next week on a previously announced trip, stopping in Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul, South Korea.
Why China's new air zone incensed Japan, U.S.
Difficult to monitor
The U.S. bomber flights Monday also highlight the challenges that analysts say China faces in policing its newly claimed air zone.
In its statement Wednesday, the Chinese defense ministry said that "China has the capability to exercise effective control" over the area.
"Beijing might have bitten off a bit more than they can chew because actually going out and monitoring these things on an ongoing basis is probably a bit beyond the capabilities of the Chinese air force right now," said Greg Waldron, Asia managing editor of FlightGlobal, an aviation and aerospace industry website.
"In a sense, it's more a rhetorical statement, as opposed to a realistic military space," Waldron said.
Adding to the complications and confusion surrounding the zone, Japan's two main commercial airlines said Wednesday that following a request from the Japanese government, they and other members of the Scheduled Airlines Association of Japan will not submit flight plans to Chinese authorities for flights through the zone claimed by Beijing.
The two carriers, Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways, said the association had concluded that there would be "no impact" on the safety of passengers on board flights through the zone without the submission of flight plans to China.
But Waldron said he wasn't entirely sure about that. From a legal point of view, he said, the airlines probably don't have to report their plans and follow all the rules requested by China.
"I think from a safety perspective, it's a good idea for them to do so," Waldron said. "Just in case."
'The right of every country'
Since it declared the new air defense zone at the weekend, China has been busy making its case for why it feels the move was justified.
It has pointed out that other countries already operate air defense identification zones in waters around their territory, noting that Japan has had a zone in place in the East China Sea since the 1960s.
"It's natural, it's indeed the right of every country to defend its airspace and also to make sure that its territorial integrity, its sovereignty are safeguarded," China's U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi said Tuesday.
But analysts say that by declaring a zone that now overlaps with that of Japan, China has increased the likelihood of a high-risk incident in the air.
South Korea and Australia have also criticized the Chinese announcement.
The situation has remained tense around the islands over the past year. Japan has repeatedly scrambled fighter jets in response to Chinese government planes flying near the islands. And ships from the two countries regularly engage in high seas games of cat and mouse in waters around the islands.
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Aircraft carrier on the move
On top of the already strained situation, China's military announced on its website early Wednesday that its navy's sole aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was heading toward the South China Sea.
That's where China has had territorial disputes with other Asian nations including the Philippines and Vietnam.
The carrier, which was commissioned in September 2012 and first had aircraft leaving and landing on it two months later, set out from a shipyard in eastern China's Qingdao city on Tuesday morning, the military said on its website.
As with U.S. aircraft carriers, it doesn't travel alone: two guided missile destroyers and two guided missile frigates are accompanying the massive ship as part of its group.
The Chinese military makes no mention of the dispute with Japan and its ally, the United States. Rather, its website post notes that the carrier group's mission is to conduct training and tests.
But in order to get from Qingdao to the South China Sea, the aircraft carrier group has to first go through the East China Sea.
It remained unclear how close it would sail to the disputed islands.
"There are several possible courses for the voyage from Qingdao to the South China Sea and it is not clear which the Liaoning will take," the state-run newspaper China Daily reported Wednesday.
At the same time, U.S. and Japanese forces are due to hold joint naval exercises this week off Okinawa -- a few hundred kilometers from the disputed islands.
CNN's Barbara Starr, Greg Botelho, Madison Park, Steven Jiang, David McKenzie, Junko Ogura and Kevin Wang contributed to this report.
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China's response to US B-52s in air zone 'too slow': media
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Beijing — China's response to US B-52 bombers in its newly-declared air zone was "too slow", state-run media said Thursday, fuelling a popular clamour for Beijing to get tough against Japan and the US.
Beijing's declaration of a new Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) including Tokyo-administered islands at the centre of a tense dispute between the two neighbours has provoked global concern.
The US has a security alliance with Japan and announced that it had sent two US Stratofortress planes into the zone without obeying Beijing's rules, in an unmistakable message ahead of a visit to the region by Vice-President Joe Biden.
China's defence ministry issued a statement 11 hours later saying the military "monitored the entire process" of the B-52 flights, without expressing regret or anger or threatening direct action.
The Global Times, which is close to China's ruling Communist Party and often strikes a nationalist tone, criticised the reaction as "too slow" in an editorial Thursday.
"We failed in offering a timely and ideal response," it said, adding that Chinese officials needed to react to the "psychological battles" by the US.
The government-run China Daily added that Washington's move risked fuelling Tokyo's "dangerous belligerence" and putting China and the US "on a collision course. Which will prove much more hazardous than sending military aircraft to play chicken in the air".
China's Communist party uses nationalism as a key part of its claim to a right to rule, tapping into deep-seated popular resentment of Japan for its brutal invasion of China in the early 20th century.
Such passions are quickly aroused, and Chinese social media users called for Beijing to retaliate against Washington.
"The US's bomber wandered around the edge of our ADIZ, I figure we should respond in kind. One good turn deserves another, right?" wrote one poster on Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter.
Another said the bomber flights "can only be called a provocation".
One suggested that Beijing should cancel Biden's invitation, saying that if it "now announces that it was not the right time for Biden to visit China, would the US military still enter the ADIZ in the future as they like?"
The Chinese ADIZ requires aircraft to provide their flight plan, declare their nationality and maintain two-way radio communication, or face "defensive emergency measures".
The US and Japan accuse China of raising the stakes in the row over islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, and senior administration officials in Washington said on Wednesday that Biden plans to raise Washington's "concerns" about the zone during his visit to Beijing next week.
The trip will allow him to "make the broader point that there's an emerging pattern of behaviour by China that is unsettling to China's own neighbours and raising questions about how China operates in international space," an official said.
China's new ADIZ also overlaps South Korea's zone, incorporating a disputed, submerged, Seoul-controlled rock, and the South Korean military said Thursday one of its planes had flown through it without informing Beijing.
Australia on Thursday refused to backdown from criticism of the new air zone after Canberra summoned China's ambassador earlier this week, prompting a furious response from Beijing.
The Philippines also voiced concern Thursday that China may extend control of air space over disputed areas of the South China Sea.
China for its part has accused the US and Japan -- which have both maintained ADIZs for years -- of double standards, and says the real provocateur is Tokyo.
The dispute lay dormant for decades but escalated in September 2012 when Tokyo purchased three of the uninhabited outcrops from private owners.
Beijing accused Tokyo of altering the status quo and has since sent surveillance ships and aircraft to the area as shows of force, prompting Japan to scramble fighter jets 386 times in the 12 months to September.
After an unidentified drone flew towards the islands, Tokyo threatened to shoot down such aircraft, which Beijing warned would amount to an "act of war".
The manoeuvres have raised fears of an accidental clash but both countries have strong commercial incentives to avoid conflict.
As the world's second- and third-largest economies, they share significant trade links.
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Defying China, U.S. bombers and Japanese planes fly through new air zone
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A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 2012. REUTERS/Kyodo
A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 2012.
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(Reuters) - Two unarmed U.S. B-52 bombers flew over disputed islands on a training mission in the East China Sea without informing Beijing while Japan's main airlines ignored Chinese authorities when their planes passed through a new airspace defense zone on Wednesday.
The defiance from Japan and its ally the United States over China's new identification rules raises the stakes in a territorial standoff between Beijing and Tokyo over the islands and challenges China to make the next move.
China published coordinates for an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone over the weekend and warned it would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly. The zone is about two thirds the size of Britain.
"If the United States conducts two or three more flights like this, China will be forced to respond. If China can only respond verbally it would be humiliating," said Sun Zhe, a professor at the Center for U.S.-China Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
"The concept of the paper tiger is very important. All sides face it."
China's Defense Ministry said it had monitored the entire progress of the U.S. bombers through the zone on Tuesday Asian time. A Pentagon spokesman said the planes had neither been observed nor contacted by Chinese aircraft.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, when asked how China would respond to future infractions of the zone, said the country would "make an appropriate response" that depended on the "situation and degree of threat".
Qin added that China had informed "relevant countries" before setting up the zone. He would not elaborate.
Following a request from the Japanese government, Japan Airlines and ANA Holdings said they stopped giving flight plans and other information to Chinese authorities on Wednesday. Neither airline had experienced any problems when passing through the zone, they added.
Japan's aviation industry association said it had concluded there was no threat to passenger safety by ignoring the Chinese demands, JAL said. Both JAL and ANA posted notices on their websites informing its passengers of their decision.
The flight by the B-52 bombers was part of a long-planned exercise, a U.S. military official said.
Some experts have said the Chinese move was aimed at chipping away at Tokyo's claim to administrative control over the area, including the tiny uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.
The action might have backfired, said Brad Glosserman, executive director of the Honolulu-based Pacific Forum CSIS.
"This is confirming the darker view of China in Asia," Glosserman said. "The Chinese once again are proving to be their own worst enemy ... driving the U.S. closer to Japan and (South) Korea closer to the position of Tokyo as well."
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, in her first speech since assuming her post earlier this month, criticized China's "unilateral action" as undermining regional security.
Kennedy also said Japan had shown "great restraint this past year" and urged Tokyo to continue to do so. "We encourage Japan to increase communication with its neighbors and continue to respond to regional challenges in a measured way."
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The Chinese action was also likely to bolster support in Japan for hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda to strengthen the military and loosen the limits of the post-war, pacifist constitution on its armed forces.
While Washington does not take a position on sovereignty over the islands, it recognizes that Tokyo has administrative control over them and it is therefore bound by treaty to defend Japan in the event of an armed conflict.
The B-52s, part of the Air Force fleet for more than half a century, are relatively slow compared with today's fighter jets and far easier to spot than stealth aircraft.
"We have conducted operations in the area of the Senkakus. We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.
The dispute comes before a planned trip to the region by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to travel to Japan next week and also has stops in China and South Korea.
Annual U.S.-Japan naval exercises are also taking place in waters off the Japanese islands of Okinawa and Kyushu, to the east of China's new zone. The drills, which involve the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, recently taking part in the Philippine typhoon relief effort, were planned before China's announcement of the zone.
CHINA DEMANDS FLIGHT PLANS
The new Chinese rules mean aircraft have to report flight plans to China, maintain radio contact and reply promptly to identification inquiries and bear clear markings of their nationality and registration.
On Monday, civil aviation officials from Hong Kong and Taiwan said their carriers entering the zone must file flight plans. A transport ministry official in Seoul said South Korean planes would do the same.
Qantas Airways Ltd said on Wednesday its pilots would keep China informed of their flights through the area.
The United States and Japan have sharply criticized China's airspace declaration, prompting Beijing to lodge counter protests and warn Washington to stay out of the dispute.
An outspoken retired Chinese military figure, former Major General Luo Yuan, wrote on Tuesday that China should use force in the zone if needed, adding the United States especially had to comply or face the consequences. Some experts, however, questioned whether China had the military assets to fully implement the new measures.
While the zone is outside China's territorial airspace, the Chinese Defense Ministry has said its establishment had a sound legal basis and accorded with common international practices.
Other countries including the United States, Japan and South Korea have similar zones but only require aircraft to file flight plans and identify themselves if those planes intend to pass through national airspace.
In addition, China sent its sole aircraft carrier on a training mission for the first time into the oil- and gas-rich South China Sea on Tuesday, upsetting the Philippines.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, conflicting with claims from Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Vietnam.
(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason in California, David Alexander, Matt Spetalnick and Lesley Wroughton in Washington, Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo, Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina in Beijing and Lincoln Feast in Sydney. Editing by Dean Yates and Nick Macfie)
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After Challenges, China Appears to Backpedal on Air Zone
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The disputed islands in the East China Sea are known as the Diaoyu by China and as the Senkaku by Japan.
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Each step seemed like a measured escalation in the long-running territorial dispute, intended to press Japan to negotiate over jurisdiction of the islands. But they also seemed calibrated to avoid a sharp international backlash — or to raise expectations too high at home.
But by imposing a new air defense zone over the islands last weekend, Beijing may have miscalculated. It provoked a quick, pointed challenge from the United States, set off alarm bells among Asian neighbors and created a frenzy of nationalist expression inside China on hopes that the new leadership team in Beijing would push for a decisive resolution of the longstanding dispute.
On Wednesday, after the Pentagon sent two B-52 bombers defiantly cruising around China’s new air defense zone for more than two hours, Beijing appeared to backpedal. The overflights went unchallenged, and some civilian airlines ignored China’s new assertion of air rights.
“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.
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. 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.
“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.
China 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. 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.
Beijing is especially frustrated that its previous, more cautious steps to convince Japan of the seriousness of its claim to the islands have not prompted Japan, which administers them, to negotiate in earnest.
“Japan always has the backing of the United States and shows unbelievable arrogance to the Chinese proposal to have talks on a bilateral basis,” said Zhu Feng, a professor of international relations at Beijing University and one of China’s more moderate voices on Japan. “Japan’s arrogance is unacceptable.”
But if China has been trying to drive a wedge between Washington and the Japanese government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, their strategy seems to have backfired, at least for now.
The United States had for months seemed reluctant to get involved or take sides in a dispute that carries so much emotional weight for China. American officials complained that some Japanese leaders had made nationalist gestures that antagonized China, worsening the tensions. And the Obama administration dodged requests by Japanese leaders to take a clearer stance in their favor.
That hesitation seems to have largely vanished since China pronounced it was expanding its hold on the region’s airspace.
With the flyover by the B-52s, the United States has shown it is more willing to work with Japan in opposing China’s efforts to unilaterally force a change in the status quo, even if the United States still takes a neutral stance in the islands dispute itself. Hours after China declared its new air zone, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reaffirmed that the United States would stand by its security treaty obligations to aid Japan if it was attacked.
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On Wednesday in Tokyo, the defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, pledged in a phone call with Mr. Hagel to work closely with the United States military by sharing information and coordinating in the surveillance of Chinese activities in the East China Sea, Japan’s Defense Ministry said.
The new United States ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, said in her first speech since assuming her post, broadcast around the world on CNN, that China’s creation of the air defense zone “only serves to increase tensions in the region.”
The Chinese action also stirred the first official negative comments about China in South Korea since President Park Geun-hye took office this year and forged a closer relationship with Beijing. The coordinates of the air defense zone announced by China overlap with South Korea’s own air defense zone in some places and appear created to give China an edge in a separate maritime territorial dispute with South Korea.
“We see competition and conflict in the region deepening,” South Korea’s foreign minister, Yun Byung-se, said Wednesday. “Things can take a dramatic turn for the worse if territorial conflicts and historical issues are merged with nationalism.”
The announcement of the air defense zone may also have created problems at home for the leadership in China, where there are expectations among an increasingly nationalist population that the country can live up to its promise of standing up to Japan.
On Chinese social media, a barrage of commentary congratulated the government on the new air defense zone and warned that Beijing should make good on threats by the Defense Ministry that aircraft give notification or face military action.
“If the Chinese military doesn’t do anything about aircraft that don’t obey the commands to identify themselves in the zone, it will face international ridicule,” wrote Ni Fangliu, a historian and an investigative journalist, on his microblog, which has more than two million followers.
The Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China’s military, said in a commentary published before the Chinese government acknowledged the B-52 flights that without strong enforcement, the zone would be just “armchair strategy.”
Despite the risks, Mr. Shi, the government adviser, said that proclaiming the air defense zone was important because it represented China’s first effort to expand its strategic space beyond offshore waters since the establishment of Communist China in 1949.
The response by the United States, he said, amounted to “a negative development for a strong great-power relationship” that China sought between the United States and China, but he added that the Chinese president was patient and strategic.
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Chinese ambassador Liu Jieyi reacts to the news that two US military aircraft flew over islands which are part of a territorial dispute with Japan.
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Two unarmed US B-52 bombers on a training mission flew over disputed islands in the East China Sea without informing Beijing, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday, defying China's declaration of a new airspace defense zone in the region.
The flight on Monday night did not prompt a response from China, and the White House on Tuesday urged Beijing to resolve its dispute with Japan over the islands diplomatically, without resorting to "threats or inflammatory language."
China published coordinates for an East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone over the weekend and warned it would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly in the airspace.
The zone covers most of that sea and includes the skies over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan.
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"The policy announced by the Chinese over the weekend is unnecessarily inflammatory," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in California, where President Barack Obama is travelling.
"These are the kinds of differences that should not be addressed with threats or inflammatory language, but rather can and should be resolved diplomatically," he said.
The dispute flared ahead of a trip to the region by Vice President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to travel to Japan early next week and also has stops in China and South Korea. The White House announced the trip in early November.
Two US B-52 bombers carried out the flight, part of a long-planned exercise, on Monday night Eastern Standard Time, a US military official said, identifying the type of aircraft on condition of anonymity.
Pentagon officials said there was no Chinese response.
"We have conducted operations in the area of the Senkakus. We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies," spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said, using the Japanese name for the islands.
The United States and close ally Japan have sharply criticised China's airspace declaration, with US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel calling it a "destabilising attempt to alter the status quo in the region." He said on Saturday the United States would not change how it operates there.
Some airlines in the region agreed to begin complying with the Chinese identification measures, which effectively force countries to recognise Beijing's authority there.
But Japan's two biggest airlines - Japan Airlines and ANA Holdings - bowed to a Japanese government request to stop complying with the Chinese demands for flight plans and other information. They will stop providing the information beginning Wednesday, spokesmen for the carriers said.
Experts said the Chinese move was aimed at chipping away at Tokyo's claim to administrative control over the area, including the tiny uninhabited islands known as the Senkaku in Japanand the Diaoyu in China.
While Washington does not take a position on the sovereignty of the islands, it recognises that Japan has administrative control over them and is therefore bound by treaty to defend Japan in the event of an armed conflict.
The Pentagon said the training exercise "involved two aircraft flying from Guam and returning to Guam." Warren said the US military aircraft were neither observed nor were contacted by the Chinese aircraft.
China's Defence Ministry said on Monday it had lodged protests with the US and Japanese embassies in Beijing over the criticism from Washington and Tokyo of the zone.
China also summoned Japan's ambassador, warning Tokyo to "stop words and actions which create friction and harm regional stability," China's Foreign Ministry said. Meanwhile, Tokyoand Seoul summoned Chinese diplomats to protest.
In addition, China sent its sole aircraft carrier on a training mission into the South China Sea on Tuesday amid maritime disputes with the Philippines and other neighbors and tension over its airspace defense zone.
It is the first time it was sent to the South China Sea.
Australia summoned China's ambassador to express concern over its imposition of an "Air Defence Identification Zone" over the East China Sea, the foreign minister said on Tuesday, decrying the move as unhelpful in a region beset by tension.
Reuters
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China has insisted it has the ability to enforce its newly-declared air zone over islands disputed with Japan, despite Beijing's reluctance to intervene after American B-52 bombers entered the area.
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New US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy says China's assertion of a new air defence zone "only serves to increase tensions" in the region.(AP/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool)
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BEIJING: China has insisted it has the ability to enforce its newly-declared air zone over islands disputed with Japan, despite Beijing's reluctance to intervene after American B-52 bombers entered the area.
The flight of the giant long-range US Stratofortress planes was a clear warning that Washington would push back against what it considers an aggressive stance.
While US defence chief Chuck Hagel praised Tokyo's restraint, officials indicated Vice President Joe Biden would personally convey America's "concerns" about the matter during a visit to the Chinese capital next week.
Qin Gang, the foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing told reporters Wednesday: "The Chinese government has the will and ability to defend our national sovereignty and security."
"We also have the ability to exercise effective control over the East Sea Air Defence Identification Zone," (ADIZ) he said.
The area in the East China Sea includes Japan-administered islands at the heart of a tense dispute between the two neighbours, known as Senkaku in Tokyo and Diaoyu in Beijing.
A Chinese demand over the weekend that aircraft submit flight plans when traversing it triggered a storm of diplomatic protest and the Pentagon said the B-52s did not comply.
But in a statement, Chinese defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said: "The Chinese military monitored the entire process, carried out identification in a timely manner, and ascertained the type of US aircraft."
Biden, scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking officials during his visit, was poised to address the matter head-on.
"Clearly, the visit to China creates an opportunity for the vice president to discuss directly with policymakers in Beijing this issue, to convey our concerns directly and to seek clarity regarding the Chinese intentions in making this move at this time," a senior US administration official told reporters.
The Chinese ADIZ requires aircraft to provide their flight plan, declare their nationality and maintain two-way radio communication, or face defensive emergency measures.
The manoeuvres have raised fears of an accidental clash but analysts stress that both sides have commercial incentives to avoid conflict.
State-run media say it extends as close to Japan as Tokyo's zone approaches China.
The B-52 flight was also a signal of US support for Japan, with which Washington has a security pact.
The American ambassador to Tokyo, Caroline Kennedy, said: "The Japanese can see every day that America is here for them as a partner in the defence of Japan."
Japanese airlines, under pressure from Tokyo, stopped following China's new rules Wednesday, after initially complying.
The US bombers - which were unarmed - took off from Guam on Monday on a scheduled flight in what American defence officials insist was a routine exercise.
Users of China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo accused their government of buckling when challenged.
"They came to test us and proved you don't have the guts to show them who's boss," said one.
But analysts said Beijing - where a key Communist Party meeting took place earlier this month - had remained vague about how it might enforce its authority and may never have intended to react in the field.
It may have simply wanted to declare an ADIZ to match Japan's and further assert its claim to the contested islands, they said.
Beijing left its options open "so they can explain away things like why there's nothing they can do about the violation of their ADIZ", said Jingdong Yuan, an international security expert at the University of Sydney.
Gary Li, a senior fellow at consultancy IHS Maritime, said the ADIZ "is entirely designed to give the Chinese more options on the diplomatic side of the argument, give them more tools, more leverage."
Chinese officials and state media have accused Japan and the US - which both have ADIZs - of double standards, and argue that the real provocateur is Tokyo.
The islands dispute, which has simmered for decades, escalated in September 2012 when Japan purchased three of the uninhabited outcrops from private owners.
Beijing accused Tokyo of changing the status quo and has since sent ships and planes to the area as displays of force, prompting Japan to scramble fighter jets 386 times in the year to September.
After an unidentified drone flew towards the islands, Tokyo threatened to shoot down such aircraft, which Beijing warned would amount to an "act of war".
- AFP/de
http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2013/11/28/a1013351.html
中國網絡觀察：防空鬧劇 中共當局成笑柄
相關專題: [釣魚島之爭] 2013-11-28 01:47 AM
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中日有爭議的尖閣列島/釣魚島地理位置（圖片：美國之音）
【新唐人2013年11月28日訊】(美国之音記者齊之豐報導)上個星期六，中國當局出人意料地宣佈所謂的“東海防空識別區”，中國空軍一位少將還咄咄逼人地宣稱，外國飛機不聽警告進入防空識別區中國可將其擊落。
然而，三天之後，也就是星期二，東海防空識別區就成為鬧劇，成為全中國和全世界的笑柄。美國空軍兩架B-52轟炸機不理會中國的東海防空識別區的規定，平安無事、大模大樣地飛越那一地區。美國方面隨後宣佈了這種特殊又平常的飛行，“B-52轟炸機”立即成為中國網民的熱搜詞。中國當局先是咄咄逼人、然後再長時間無反應、假裝沒事的做法，更是受到中國網民的無情嘲笑。
*中國當局成笑柄*
實際上，中國一宣佈設立東海防空識別區，就有許多觀察家不約而同指出：中國將如此大片的空域設定為自己的防空識別區，是否有足夠的能力說到做到，對不理會中國在那裏單方面設立的防空區規定的飛行器進行執法？假如中國沒有這樣的能力，中國是否會落入一個尷尬境地？
如前，中國顯然已經穩穩噹噹、實打實地落入這種本來是很容易想到的尷尬境地。
中國當局先前莽撞宣佈設立“東海防空識別區”之後立即受到挑戰卻窮於應付，在全世界媒體提紛紛報導之後中國當局又長時間保持了有趣的沉默，這種局面在全世界引起強烈的娛樂性反應，但最娛樂的顯然是中國公眾，中國網民。
截至目前，中國網民最多的反應是嘲弄、捉弄、玩弄、挑逗、調笑、揶揄、刺激中國當局。隨便拿來中國網民真真假假、虛虛實實、指桑罵槐、嬉笑怒罵的評論串聯起來，就足以壓倒或氣死全世界上最好的喜劇寫手：如：“被打臉了”、“狗日的美帝不給面子啊”（註：“美帝”多年來一直是中國當局對美國的蔑稱，但近年來，“美帝”在中國網民當中已經變味，變成了玩笑的昵稱甚至是愛稱。）、“中國剛宣佈防空識別區，美國B-52轟炸機飛越了，根本沒理中國。這是甚麼遊戲？”
“既然畫出來識別區，不通報頻率就可以干下來，結果啥事都沒做，這不是自取其辱麼？”、“強烈抗議老美這大流氓！俺剛試探著把褲頭提上，你上來就給扒了？”、“想起小時候玩的遊戲，跟小夥伴兒吵架了，於是在家門口自己感覺可以的區域設了禁行區，結果大人看都不看挑著糞擔直接邁過。”
“爹來了，當即認熊！這大嘴巴抽的，這叫山響！接下去咋整？國內老百姓都眼睜睜看著你們呢！”、“美國人就是厲害，這下看中國怎麼圓場，要是甚麼都不做，那丟人算是丟到家了。雖說我們外交部的臉皮很厚，但這兩個嘴巴打得這叫一個響亮！沒準心裡還抱怨美國人這次真不給面子，我們搞個識別區不過是哄哄國內的人，沒想到老大當真了。”
“美國在聲明不承認東海防空識別區後，昨日派遣兩架B-52長程轟炸機，進入中國東海防空識別區，並未知會中國。晚上日本表示：包括日本航空、全日空在內的日本國內航空公司也將不再按照中國東海航空識別區的要求向中方提交飛行計劃。觀朝廷之應變？”
更有網民趁機玩起了挖苦諷刺中國當局的二人轉：“建議外交部發言人嚴正聲明：有本事你b52天天來，有一天沒來你都是孫子，都會受到愛好和平的全世界人民的鄙視。”、“這種孫子兵法不好使。米國鬼子估計不會中計的”（註：“米國”，戲稱，即美國。）
*二奶貪官與防空*
在評論美國軍機挑戰中國單方面設立的防空識別區的時候，許多中國網民將中國的外交和內政聯繫起來，抨擊、諷刺中國政府的腐敗無能，中國軍隊的腐敗無能：“外媒稱美國B-52轟炸機飛越中國防空識別區 。評：美軍真麼不地道，晚上偷偷摸摸地來偷襲，我們在睡覺不是，二奶纏著脫不開身啊！有種白天來啊？”
“他們只有拆房子的經驗和興趣，對於美帝飛機還真不敢打”（註：“拆房子”，顯然是指中國當局在中國特地肆意侵奪公民財產，肆意強迫拆遷、強迫征地、說一不二，甚至直接開鏟土機輾死百姓、推牆砸死百姓。）、“為甚麼轟炸機飛過來？是美國人提醒我們？？？？雷達屁用？？？？國防經費也貪污污？？？？？”
“這下中國糗大了，咋不升空幾架戰鬥機迫降它一下”、“美帝逼逼個啥 有本事來疊個被子啊”（註：“疊被”，許多中國公眾和網民認為，中國軍隊腐敗無能，訓練無方，是繡花枕頭，中看不中用，中國軍人最嚴格的訓練就是把被子疊好，再用木板夾的方方正正。）
“呵呵，這下糗大了，怎麼辦了？讓戴旭、張召忠羅源等將軍用嘴炮打下來？ ”
（註：戴旭、張召忠都是中國軍隊的所謂鷹派，以高調發表反美言論、表示不懼怕跟美國開戰而著稱。）
“近平可速派羅援，張召忠，戴旭等虎將至關島，夏威夷或阿拉斯加巡航。或可派司馬南，吳法天等大殺器潛伏美國本土，必可不戰而屈人之兵也。”
“這個戴旭 很奇怪，整天在網上唧唧歪歪，左一個美帝，右一個第五縱隊的。美帝都欺負到家門口了，翻遍他的微博，也沒見有甚麼宣戰的意思，倒是對國內公知批判的挺來勁，這難道就是傳說中的鷹派？”、“上次張將軍說種海帶對付美國核潛艇，給了我很大的啟發，難道我們不能在我們的防空識別區內大規模放風箏嗎？不行放氫氣球也行啊！我就不信嚇不死他們，看他B-52再敢過來得瑟！”（註：“近平”，顯然是指中國國家主席、軍委主席、中國軍隊總司令習近平﹔司馬南，吳法天，中國毛派和極端民族主義代表人物，也以高調發表反美言論、表示不懼怕跟美國開戰而著稱）
“支持用世界最先進的中國獨有武器——【嘴炮】 ”
“美國B-52轟炸機飛躍釣魚島領空，就是故意挑戰和羞辱中國空軍啊！呵呵，國防部打嘴炮還行，真要打不敢啊！丟人了。”、“我軍應該派遣大規模說服性武器飛躍美帝上空，把美國百姓從水生火熱的生活中解救出來！！！ ”
*究竟誰受了侮辱*
在眾多的針對中國當局的嘲笑和戲弄的網民評論中，也有一些真真假假、真假莫辨的評論，好似為中國當局說話：“看評論發現設個防空識別區，美軍飛機一來，全是為美軍站臺的。我亂了 ”、“看評論挺無語的，受侮辱了國人不罵美國，反倒諷刺政府去了 ”
然而，這種看似為中國當局說話的評論，立即被嘲弄諧謔中國當局的評論所淹沒：
“這叫受侮辱嗎，這叫自取其辱”、“搬起石頭砸自己的腳！”、“我對你挺無語的，被侮辱的又不是屁民，是這個zf自個犯賤，我們罵美帝作甚？話說回來，長期在侮辱我等草民的倒是這個雞巴zf，咱樂的看丫被打臉。”
（註：zf，顯然是指“【中國】政府”。中國政府為了逃避公眾通過網絡對政府的批評，常常把“政府”一詞列為敏感詞、禁忌詞，於是許多中國網民便用“zf或ZF”來繞開當局的審查屏蔽。）
中國當局單方面宣佈的防空識別區，引發了中國網民的強烈表達慾、創作慾。有人創作了這樣的一出短話劇：
“美國防部發言人剛慾發言，忽見一身著中國城管服裝的大漢拎著棒子衝了過來：找事兒是吧？發言人嚇了一跳。城管：說，阿房宮是不是你燒的？發言人：不是。城管：圓明園呢？發言人：不是。城管：賣過西瓜沒有？發言人：沒有。城管怒氣沖沖地走了。發言人擦了擦冷汗：還好沒問防空識別區的事，不然就慘了。”
這出短話劇引來如下的遊戲“識別區”的警告：
“友情提醒，你已進入微博敏感詞識別區！”
（註：中國網民、全世界的中國網絡言論控制研究者都知道，中國當局為中國公眾和網民設立了嚴格的網絡言論禁區，言論禁區的識別區的標誌，就是中國當局秘密制定的敏感詞詞庫，中國網民網絡言論包含當局的敏感詞，便會受到當局的注意，並隨時可以被擊落、擊斃。）
*為中國當局辯護*
雖然美國軍機挑戰中國當局單方面設立的防空識別區招致大量中國網民對中國當局發出戲謔嘲笑，但網民當中也有一些人對美國進行抨擊，為中國當局進行辯護，並對中國政府的批評者發出威脅。
然而，在眾多的哄笑聲中，這種為當局辯護的民族主義言論聽上去更像是夢囈：
“全亞洲幾乎所有國家都等著中國能保護他們的利益，中國不硬，後患和利益損失太大，中國統領全球的意志越堅，所付出的成本就會越低。西方的技術全部停滯了，所謂的新技術多半是結合好萊塢編劇概念臆造臆測的加上它們毛多體臭身窮，幾乎所有人都噁心。10年內肯定能扳倒美帝霸權，別再養它了，吹集結號吧 ”
“演出開始了，我們從一窮二白中崛起，只用了64年！大不了從頭再來！毛主席打過老美，揍過小日本我們都勝利了！啥也別說：開戰！ ”
“（美國駐中國大使）駱家輝要走了，B-52來了。美國的對華政策還能有多少底牌？現在已經不是來幾條外國軍艦就可以強迫中國簽訂南京條約的時代。中國現代民族意識實際上是伴隨著反抗帝國主義的侵略而覺醒的，那麼美國的軍事示威能阻擋今天中國在經濟/工業/軍事上追趕的進程嗎？”
“美狗少亂叫！你美爹拿個破舊貨出來蒙事，你亢奮個鳥！如果你美爹真有自信威懾該派B2或者F22過來。只怕從基地一起飛就被天朝的高清實時對地觀測衛星捕捉到了。同時也不想讓天朝輕易拿到雷達數據，畢竟就這點最後嚇人的家底了！ ”
還有人為中國當局獻計獻策：
“這是美帝對中國劃設東海防空識別區的公然藐視和挑釁，真正考驗中國意志的時候到了．！！！剷除國內親美親日分子，剷除親美親日分子內外勾結，打擊國內隱患是當務之急！！！”
“事實證明，最大的敵人是米國，日本菲律賓甚麼的都只是小丑！ 還是要跟老毛子（註：“老毛子”，戲稱，即俄羅斯）加強加深合作才行！ ”
然而，立即有網民指出，跟中國聯合俄羅斯對抗美國恐怕沒事甚麼好果子：
“中國的航空母艦遼寧 有許多被俄羅斯愚弄了的鏽的舊貨的航空母艦遼寧。中途最好不沉沒。 ”
*對中國當局批評勸誡*
與此同時，中國也有一些網民對中國當局發出善意的批評、勸誡、質疑：
“一國本無權在國際空域採取強制措施。但中國公告卻使用威脅性語句。別國的識別區就沒有這種威脅性規定。假如日本也惡狠狠，對於進入日方識別區且“拒不服從”日軍指令的中國民航機，要動用“武裝力量採取緊急防禦措施”。那中方肯定也不干。應該說，這次中方傲過頭。才遭美國修理。 “
“釣魚島上空，應當是我國領空吧？劃定識別區，不是變相承認無主權？有請專家。”
“剛有消息稱，美國轟炸機飛躍中方剛宣佈的ADIZ（防空識別區），未通報中國，美軍方通訊社則發佈了國防部長對此事的正式聲明，內容包括美軍行動不受中方措施制約，及重申聯防釣魚島。這次言行結合的立即反措施彰顯了中方ADIZ決策的冒險主義性質及被動難堪的後果。”
“民族主義和民粹主義相結合，會把中國引向危險的邊緣，八國聯軍就是慘痛的代價。清末的愛國將領們，大都是誤國的民族主義和民粹主義。”
“中國的防空識別區的公布是不必要的冒險行動。現在比較尷尬了。它同時為美國的亞洲戰略提供了自然和合理的理由，為把亞洲國家推向美國懷抱加了一把力量。”
“防空識別圈離日本領土只130公里，顯然有點壓制日本，這樣顯然反而使自由世界更警覺，周邊國家更團結，等於幫助美國做了統戰。軍力不如美國，更不如美國，日本，南韓，澳大利亞，新加坡這些國家力量的總和。這次被美軍B-52強闖識別圈，算是既丟面子，又丟裡子。”
“軍中強硬派無事生非，弄出一個禁飛區，以為可以玩玩小日本，結果引來美國B52，把軍中強硬派的臉抽得啪啪作響。強硬派的發言人在哪裏？如何收場？日本是美國的一部分，把這個問題搞清楚了，你再去思考國家戰略問題。”
“昨天美國兩架B-52轟炸機從關島起飛，飛越中國剛劃定的東海防空識別區，並在釣魚島周邊飛行，美軍發言人沃倫稱：“我們繼續按正常程序飛行，不提出飛行計劃，不事先無線電通報，不登記頻率。”請記住，說話算數的國家，永遠值得對手尊敬，只吹不做的國家，永遠被對手嘲笑。”
*防空識別區與嘴炮*
在另外一方面，美國之音記者雷祿斯報導說：在媒體報導美軍飛機飛越中國宣佈的防空識別區後，中國國防部發言人耿雁生星期三說，中國軍隊對美國轟炸機進行了“全程監視、及時識別”。
按照中國宣佈的規定，中國軍方對拒不服從的飛機將採取“防禦性緊急處置措施”。這位中國軍方發言人沒有提及這類措施，他只是說，中方有能力對相關空域實施有效管控。
在眾多的中國網民看來，這只是中國當局在打嘴炮。
與此同時，眾多的中國網民在繼續挖苦諷刺中國當局，他們或者是假裝悲傷，或者是正話反說，虛虛實實：
“很讓國人傷心，，傷自尊吶，政府不作為！！ ”
“打吧，和美帝幹一場，這樣，人民也可以早日得解放。 ”
在這些中國網民看來，中國當局宣佈新設立的防空識別區顯然已經成為標準的鬧劇。
這種鬧劇今後如何收場，全世界正在拭目以待。
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中國網絡觀察：防空的鬧劇
1 名前：キャプテンシステムρφ ★[sage ] 投稿日：2013/11/28(木) 15:07:39.59 ID:???0
先週の土曜日、中国当局は東シナ海防空識別圏を発表し、
さらに中国空軍少将は「外国航空機を積極的に制御し、警告を無視した場合は撃墜する。」と宣言しました。
しかしその3日後、アメリカはこの防空識別圏にB-52爆撃機を”無事”に飛ばしたことで、中国は世界全体から「茶番だ」と笑われています。
もちろん中国のネット上ではこのことが大きな話題となりました。
そしてネット上では中国当局に対し「無慈悲な嘲笑」が浴びせられています。
ネット上では中国当局は実際にこの防空識別圏を制御できるだけの能力があるのか、また識別圏を発表した後はほとんど沈黙しているのは何故かなど、
様々な議論が交わされています。
特に中国当局を面白がっているのは中国のネットユーザだと言えます。
「顔を殴られた感じ。いじめではないのか？」
「B-52が飛んできたって。このゲームは何？」
「アメリカ人は思い出させてくれた！
クソみたいなレーダーと、それを作るために費やされた賄賂を！」
「世界はこの”茶番”を終わらせる方法を注目している。」
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