He also reiterated that Japan's defense ministry did not confirm the information that Beijing had sent air fighters in response to Japanese and American aircrafts flying through the new air-defence zone claimed by China. "According to the information we have, such a situation did not happen," - said Onodera.
Besides Japan, South Korea has also protested against Beijing actions.
China has included the Korean –claimed Socotera (Ieodo) rock where Korea has built structures in its Defence zone in the East China Sea.
USA has also expressed its disagreement on China’s decision.
Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2013_11_30/China-should-heed-international-reaction-on-air-defence-zone-MoD-Japan-2262/
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Chinese jets shadowed US and Japanese planes in new air defense zone.-China dismisses Japanese claim of altering status quo -Senkaku/Diaoyu issue
US carriers urged to comply with China air zone rules....
Κινεζικά αεροσκάφη στη ζώνη αεράμυνας. -Senkaku/Diaoyu issue
Japanese military planes defy China's new air zone (video cctv). -PLA (People’s Liberation Army) pledges to defend East China Sea
- Japan sees no "peculiar" developments after China "scramble": Onodera
Japan has detected no "peculiar" developments since China's announcement that it scrambled fighters in response to flights by Japanese and U.S. military aircraft in its new air defense identification zone above the East China Sea, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Saturday.
"There have been no developments that we can announce as peculiar such as one where aircraft suddenly came close," he told reporters, denying Beijing's claim that it had scrambled fighters.
"It is important for both sides to respond in a calm manner. We want (China) to deal with this issue according to common sense in the international community," he added.
China said Friday the scramble took place in the morning with Chinese fighters identifying 10 planes of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, including the F-15 fighter, as well as two U.S. reconnaissance aircraft passing through the zone.
The zone overlaps Japan's and covers airspace over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by China as the Diaoyus.
Japan and several other countries, including South Korea and the United States, have strongly criticized China for establishing the zone, saying it should be viewed as a unilateral attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea.
Also Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said Tokyo has proposed that the International Civil Aviation Organization consider how to address the issue of China's air defense zone.
Japan put forward the proposal at a meeting of the ICAO, a U.N. agency to promote the safe and orderly development of international civil aviation throughout the world, saying the Chinese move could threaten the order and safety of international civil aviation.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131129/japan-sees-no-peculiar-developments-after-china-scramb
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US says airlines should observe China zone...
ReplyDeleteReported scrambling of "combat aircraft" by China, including at least two fighter jets, threatens to escalate situation.
US commercial airlines should observe China's demand to be given notice of aircraft entering its newly declared air defence zone, the State Department has said.
The Pentagon earlier indicated that American military forces would continue normal operations, despite China scrambling fighter jets to monitor US and Japanese aircraft in the area.
China's announcement last weekend that it was extending an air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over islands disputed by China and Japan was disregarded by several nations, and US B-52 bombers entered the area.
"We have flights routinely transiting international airspace throughout the Pacific, including the area China is including in their ADIZ," said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said on Friday.
"These flights are consistent with long-standing and well-known US freedom of navigation policies that are applied in many areas of operation around the world. I can confirm that the US has and will continue to operate in the area as normal."
Compliance by commercial flights "does not indicate US government acceptance of China's requirements for operating in the newly declared defence," the State Department said in a statement.
Echoing previous statements by the US administration, it said the US was "deeply concerned" by China's declaration of the air zone.
Japan, South Korea, the US and other countries have accused Beijing of increasing regional tensions with the air defense zone.
But the scrambling of "several combat aircraft" by China, including at least two fighter jets - according to state news agency Xinhua - threatens to escalate the situation.
"Several combat aircraft were scrambled to verify the identities" of US and Japanese aircraft entering the air defense zone, Xinhua said, quoting air force spokesman Shen Jinke.
The Chinese aircraft identified two US surveillance aircraft and 10 Japanese aircraft, including an F-15 warplane, Shen said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/us-says-airlines-should-observe-china-zone-2013113021
Senkaku/Diaoyu : Washington conseille aux avions de ligne de signaler leur présence...
ReplyDeleteLes Etats-Unis ont recommandé vendredi aux compagnies aériennes américaines de signaler au préalable aux autorités chinoises leurs plans de vol en mer de Chine orientale. « Le gouvernement américain attend des compagnies aériennes américaines opérant à l'étranger qu'elles se conforment aux avis émis par des pays tiers », a déclaré le département d'Etat. Mercredi, déjà, Jen Psaki, porte-parole du département, avait déclaré que les compagnies américaines avaient reçu pour recommandation de prendre des mesures pour survoler en toute sécurité la mer de Chine orientale.
La directive américaine fait suite à la montée des tensions dans cette mer au-dessus de laquelle où Pékin a instauré unilatéralement la semaine dernière une « zone aérienne d'identification » (ZAI), en demandant à tout appareil étranger traversant le secteur de se signaler aux autorités chinoises.
La zone en question couvre les îlots inhabités au cœur du contentieux territorial entre la Chine et le Japon, appelés Senkaku par Tokyo et Diaoyu par Pékin. Le Japon administre ces îlots, situés à environ 150 km des îles japonaises Yaeyama, mais Pékin conteste qu'ils soient japonais..............http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/11/30/sankaky-diaoyu-washington-conseille-aux-avions-de-ligne-de-signaler-leur-presence_3523133_3216.html#ens_id=3518483&xtor=RSS-3208
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Abe: China-Japan Ties 'Similar' to Britain and Germany Before WWI ...
ReplyDeleteJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the rocky relationship between Japan and China is comparable to that of Germany and Britain before World War I.
Abe's comments came while he was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His spokesman later denied that the prime minister thinks war is inevitable between the two Asian powers.
Tokyo and Beijing have long shared a fraught past, but ties have been especially strained because of a worsening territorial dispute and mutual concerns over each other's military intentions.
The two countries also share strong economic ties, leading many analysts to conclude that an outbreak of hostilities is unlikely.
Speaking to journalists in Davos on Wednesday, Prime Minister Abe pointed out that close economic relations did not prevent Britain and Germany from going to war in 1914.
Abe also criticized China's increase in military spending as a provocation. He said trust was essential to preventing conflict, suggesting greater military-to-military communication could help.
The Japanese government's top spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said Thursday that Abe's comments should not be viewed as evidence he believes the two countries are headed for war.
In a later keynote speech, Abe warned military expansion in Asia must be restrained and said disputes should be solved through dialogue and not through coercion.
His speech did not specifically mention China by name, but the comments were in line with Abe's previous statements condemning China's increasingly assertive military behavior.
Last year, Beijing set up an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea, where China and Japan both claim a series of uninhabited but strategic islands.
Japan, along with its ally the United States and South Korea, have rejected the ADIZ as a unilateral provocation, and claim it has heightened regional tensions.
The islands, known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu, have been under Japanese control since 1971. However, in recent months, a steady stream of Chinese patrol ships has attempted to change the status quo.
Beijing says tensions were only raised after Japan effectively nationalized some of the islands in 2012, buying them from their private Japanese owner.
China also reacted furiously to Prime Minister Abe's recent visit to a Tokyo shrine that many Chinese view as a symbol of Japan's military adventures in Asia.
On Wednesday, Abe defended his visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, saying it honors millions of dead Japanese soldiers, and not just war criminals.
http://www.voanews.com/content/abe-chinajapan-ties-similar-to-britain-and-germany-before-ww1/1835831.html
23/1/14
China and Japan locked horns again yesterday after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the two Asian giants should avoid repeating the past mistakes of Britain and Germany, which fought in World War I despite strong economic ties, remarks that drew a quick rebuke from Beijing......
DeleteMr Abe is evading Japan’s “history of aggression” by comparing Sino-Japanese relations to those of Britain and Germany prior to that war, the Chinese government said.
“There’s no need to make an issue of the UK-Germany relationship,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang told reporters in Beijing yesterday. “Such remarks by Japanese leaders are to evade the history of aggression, to confuse the audience.”
Sino-Japanese ties, long plagued by what Beijing sees as Japan’s failure to atone for its occupation of parts of China in the 1930s and 1940s, have worsened recently due to a territorial row in the East China Sea, Tokyo’s mistrust of Beijing’s military build-up and Mr Abe visit last month to a shrine that critics say glorifies Japan’s wartime past. Tensions spiked in November when China established an Air Defence Identification Zone in the East China Sea area.
Mr Abe on Wednesday told a group of editors at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Germany and Britain went to war despite their strong economic ties. Noting that this year is the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, Mr Abe said Japan and China must do everything they can to avoid a similar fate.
Mr Abe “absolutely” did not mean he thought Japan was headed for war with China, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo yesterday. He cited Mr Abe’s call for dialogue in a speech he separately delivered at Davos that was overshadowed by the comments on World War I.
Asked on Wednesday if China and Japan might clash militarily, Mr Abe had replied that such a conflict “would be a great loss not only for Japan and China but for the world, and we need to make sure such a thing would not happen”, said Mr Suga.
China and Japan, the world’s second- and third-largest economies respectively, have deep business ties and bilateral trade that was worth nearly US$334 billion (S$427 billion) in 2012, Japanese figures showed. .......http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/beijing-tokyo-lock-horns-abe-draws-parallel-wwi
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