"China Establishes 'Air-Defence Zone' Over East China Sea"
By: Damian Grammaticas
Source: BBC World News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25062525
There have been various conflicts between China and Japan throughout the decades, and currently the two islands Senkaku, Japanese territory, and Diaoyu, Chinese territory, are the center of attention at the moment. China extended its 'air-defence zone' reaching both Senkaku and Diaoyu. Japan senses a major conflict approaching with Japan's foreign ministry stating, "Setting up such airspace unilaterally escalates the situations surrounding Senkaku islands and has danger of leading to an unexpected situation." Taiwan owns a section of the islands as well and have the same mentality as Japan, promising that the military would move in to protect national security. China claims to have taken this action to "safeguarding state sovereignty, territorial land and air security, and maintaining flight order." China and Japan have had conflicts in the past decades concerning the islands, and in 2012 Japan bought three of those islands causing protests in China. In September, Japan said they would gun down unmanned aircrafts after a Chinese drone flew close to the islands. After the incident China said that if Japan shoots down another Chinese aircraft they would account it for an act of war and take measures. Clearly these two countries are not on good terms, and by the looks of it, it will not be improving much.
This is a very interesting topic. It interests me how advanced the world has become and there is still territorial conflicts throughout the globe. The Chinese and Japanese conflict has been an ongoing topic throughout world news. Hopefully both powerful countries will come to a conclusion and will resolve their problems. If this problems begins to increase and becomes an even larger problem then it will be very hard to solve and it will not be good for any countries that have ties with those countries. If the countries declare war upon each other then it will be a very long process trying to resolve the problem.
ReplyDeleteChina and Japan remind me if a classic episode of Tom and Jerry, where Tom sets up a situation where jerry is forced to react. Hopefully, there will be no "unexpected sitauation." This conflict reminds me of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. One country is rightfully entitled to the lands that were taken away from them, and it's bully neighbor uses it's money to attempt to claim that land theirs. Good news article Shahe Kazazian!
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