... operation or suppressing enemy’s military and economic infrastructure. In the Asia Pacific Aegis-equipped ships are deployed by the USA, Japan and Republic of Korea. There are plans in Australia, Canada, Taiwan to build such destroyers. Moreover China and Russia have Aegis analogs of indigenous design. It’s notable that Aegis-equipped ships are the backbone of the Japanese and Korean BMD programs, furthermore Korean Sejon Taewan is loaded also with cruise missiles with the range of 1 500 ...
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Chinese Concept of ADIZ
The Chinese concept of ADIZ roughly follows what is generally understood as such by other countries. But there may be confusion with the territorial airspace. After the November 23 announcement, a military legal expert wrote in China's semi-official newspaper China Daily (Renmin Ribao)1):
An air defense identification zone, as an area of airspace established by a coastal state beyond its territorial airspace, is designated to identify and monitor aircraft that enter ...
The collision of a Chinese ‘fishing’ boat into vessels of the Japanese Coast Guard in September 2010 near the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands triggered the rise of tension between China and Japan. After the arrest of the captain and crew of the boat, there was an uproar of violent protests all over China, demanding the return of their heroes as well as the ‘stolen’ islands. There was another round of violent protests ...
