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Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 12, 2013
More Chinese Air ID Zones Predicted
TAIPEI, SEOUL AND TOKYO — China’s establishment of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) last week over the East China Sea has given the US an unexpected challenge as Vice President Joseph Biden prepares for a trip to China, Japan and South Korea beginning this week.
The trip was scheduled to address economic issues, but the Nov. 23 ADIZ announcement raised a troubling new issue for the US and allies in the region. China’s ADIZ overlaps the zones of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Sources indicate China’s ADIZ could be part of its larger anti-access/area-denial strategy designed to force the US military to operate farther from China’s shorelines.
China might also be planning additional identification zones in the South China Sea and near contested areas along India’s border, US and local sources say.
China’s ADIZ might be an attempt by Beijing to improve its claim to disputed islands in the East China Sea also claimed by Japan, sources said. These islands — known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China — are under the administrative control of Japan.
Mike Green, senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said this is part of a larger Chinese strategy beyond disputes over islands.
“This should be viewed as a part of a Chinese effort to assert greater denial capacity and eventual pre-eminence over the First Island Chain” off the coast, he said.
Green, who served on the US National Security Council from 2001 to 2005, said China’s Central Military Commission in 2008 “promulgated the ‘Near Sea Doctrine,’ and is following it to the letter, testing the US, Japan, Philippines and others to see how far they can push.”
June Teufel Dreyer, a veteran China watcher at the University of Miami, Fla., said “salami slicing” is a large part of China’s strategic policy. “The salami tactic has been stunningly successful, so incremental that it’s hard to decide what Japan, or any other country, should respond forcefully to. No clear ‘red line’ seems to have been established,” Dreyer said.
The Chinese refer to it as “ling chi” or “death from a thousand cuts.”
For example, China’s new ADIZ overlaps not only Japan’s zone to encompass disputed islands, but South Korea’s zone by 20 kilometers in width and 115 kilometers in length to cover the Socotra Rock (Ieodo or Parangdo). Socotra is under South Korean control but claimed by China as the Suyan Rock.
Seoul decided to expand its ADIZ after China refused to redraw its declared zone covering the islands. Seoul’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) and related government agencies are consulting on how to expand the South Korean ADIZ, drawn in 1951 by the US military, officials said.
“We’re considering ways of expanding [South] Korea’s air defense identification zone to include Ieodo,” said Wi Yong-seop, vice spokesman for the MND.
During annual high-level defense talks between Seoul and Beijing on Nov. 28, South Korean Vice Defense Minister Baek Seung-joo demanded that Wang Guanzhong, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, modify China’s ADIZ.
“We expressed regret over China’s air defense identification zone that overlaps our zone and even includes Ieodo,” Wi said after the bilateral meeting. “We made it clear that we can’t recognize China’s move and jurisdiction over Ieodo waters.”
Amid these growing tensions, South Korea’s arms procurement agency announced Nov. 27 it would push forward on procurement of four aerial refueling planes. Currently, South Korea’s F-15 fighter jets are limited to flying missions over Ieodo for 20 minutes. New tankers will extend that time to 80 minutes.
“With midair refueling, the operational range and flight hours of our fighter jets will be extended to a greater extent, and we will be able to respond to potential territorial disputes with neighboring countries,” a spokesman for South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration said.
In the southern part of China’s ADIZ, which overlaps Taiwan’s ADIZ, Beijing was careful not to cover Taiwan’s Pengjia Island, which is manned by a Taiwan Coast Guard unit.
“The exclusion of the Pengjia Islet indicates that mainland China respects our stance,” said Chinese Nationalist Party legislator Ting Shou-chung. Relations across the Taiwan Strait have been improving over the past several years.
“We’re all waiting for the other shoe to drop,” said Peter Dutton, an ADIZ expert and director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College.
“We’re looking to see how China will now behave,” he said. “Hopefully, they will not try to fly inside the airspace over the Senkaku Islands, since that is under Japanese sovereign administration and would therefore be a highly provocative act.”
Dutton downplayed fears of another civilian airliner being shot down, as was the case in 1983, when a Soviet Su-15 fighter shot down a South Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing 269.
In 1988, a US Navy Ticonderoga-class cruiser, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Arabian Gulf, killing 290. The Vincennes mistook the airliner for an Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighter jet.
“For civilian aircraft, this is really not a major issue,” he said. “Those aircraft almost always file flight plans in advance and follow the directions of ground controllers. This means that their route through the ADIZ would already by pre-approved, and this is not a problem for the Chinese.”
Dutton said the real concern is the freedom of military flights.
“But both the US and Japan have said they do not intend to alter their behavior or to abide by the ADIZ procedures, no matter what they are, for military flights,” he said.
In 2001, a Chinese J-8 fighter collided with a US Navy EP-3 Aries signals intelligence aircraft near Hainan Island. Bonnie Glaser, a China specialist at CSIS, said she does not expect China to “back down” from its ADIZ policy, and anticipates more intercepts by Chinese fighters of US reconnaissance aircraft.
“The risk of accident will undoubtedly increase, especially [with] fighters [flown at] Mach 1 by young, inexperienced pilots,” she said.
Alessio Patalano, a lecturer in the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, said the Chinese move might have been prompted by the current tensions in the East China Sea, and recent discussions in Japan about how the military can deal with Chinese drones and manned patrol aircraft that intrude into Japan’s air defense space.
“Chinese authorities are seeking to force Japan to accept the existence of the dispute challenging Japanese control of the islands,” Patalano said. “The problem with this is that Chinese authorities are using military and paramilitary tools to force a change of status quo to what is a political issue.
“Of course, a more robust response could see the US and Japan deploy air assets in the overlapping areas of the ADIZ to challenge the Chinese position,” Patalano said. “US and Japanese aircraft flying together in the Chinese ADIZ would present a serious dilemma to Chinese authority.”
Green said the US should at least send a “joint US-Japan patrol into the area to prove the point that coercion does not work.”
The announcement of the ADIZ also affects the Chinese military, likely adding to the Air Force’s status over the traditional role the Army has played as national defender. - Defense News
Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 12, 2013
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US, Japan monitor Liaoning's course to South China Sea
Sources close to the Chinese military told China's Global Times that the Liaoning kicked off its training mission as soon as it left the Taiwan Strait. "The training has become more like active combat since it was closely followed by American and Japanese scouting vessels and aircraft," a source said.
In Taiwan, Ministry of National Defense spokesman Luo Shou-he noted that the Liaoning and its escorts maintained a course on the western side of the center line of the Strait. A newspaper photo showed that all ships at the military base in Keelung, northern Taiwan, were on stand-by while the Chinese fleet made its way south.
Taiwan's United Daily News, a government-leaning daily, reported the ROC military were closely monitoring the fleet's movements and that it had deployed missiles as a precaution.
A source close to the Chinese military said a US Los Angeles-class submarine from Guam has also appeared in the East China Sea, where tensions have run high over the past week after Beijing announced a new air defense identification zone which covers the contested islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan. "It is believed to be tasked with collecting electronic signals from our ships," he remarked.
At present, a combat group led by the carrier USS George Washington is engaged in a joint marine exercise with Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force off Okinawa, Global Times reported.
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China using ADIZ as test for South China Sea issues: scholars
Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) China recently claimed a broad air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea, but local scholars consider the move to be simply a test for South China Sea issues.
Three days after its sudden proclamation of the ADIZ Nov. 23, China sent its Liaoning aircraft carrier battle group to the South China Sea.
China's move demonstrates its influence on the international stage, said Wong Ming-hsien, director of Tamkang University's Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies.
"The ADIZ might just be a tester, the South China Sea will be the real problem," Wong told CNA.
Song Yann-huei, an Academia Sinica researcher, said China is aiming to tell the United States: "Your military aircraft can fly through our ADIZ and we have our right to sail in the South China Sea."
"China uses such diplomatic strategies to echo the U.S. strategy of 're-balance to Asia,'" Song said, adding that it is a strength-matching game between the two sides.
(By Tsai Su-jung and James Lee)/ Focus Taiwan
China could set up ADIZ over South China Sea: MND
China announced its ADIZ over a chunk of the East China Sea Nov. 23 to assert its claim over the Diaoyutai Islands and maritime economic interests in nearby waters, the MND said in a report submitted to the Legislative Yuan's Foreign and National Defense Committee.
The purpose of Beijing's move also includes an intention to challenge a regional security mechanism long dictated by the United States and to provide a legal basis for China's claim in case of future arbitration over sovereignty disputes in the East China Sea, the MND said.
The ADIZ allows the Chinese to counter U.S. and Japanese air and naval electronic reconnaissance measures in the area, which have long been a source of friction for the Chinese military, the MND added.
An expected increase in contacts between Chinese warplanes and aircraft from other countries could put more pressure on Taiwan's own air defenses, it said, adding that monitoring measures of Taiwan's own ADIZ will be stepped up to ensure adequate advance warning.
The MND report was submitted ahead of Defense Minister Yen Ming's appearance before the committee to brief legislators on the latest Chinese action, which has raised concern among other countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin and National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Tsai De-sheng will also appear before the committee to give their assessments of the situation.
In its report, the NSB said that the risk of unintentional conflict has increased with the Chinese action, although Beijing is not expected to trigger a war.
(By Wen Kuei-hsiang and Jay Chen)
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