There is not a day of calm in the waters and sky of the earth. Pacific Asia. dozens Chinese warriors They approached Taiwan on Thursday morning. chinese planes And Russians alarms are generated and protests inside seoul And Tokyo At the beginning of the week. And last Saturday they hit a Chinese warship and a US destroyer.
Until 37 Chinese aircraftcounted among fighters and bombers Taipei in the southeast corner of the detection area air defense (ADIZ for English abbreviation). The flights began before dawn and lasted six hours, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense. The attacks set in motion the usual protocol of installing surface-to-air missile systems and sending aircraft and ships to the area. “We are closely monitoring the situation,” the official said on his Twitter account. Ministry of Defense.
The figure is close to the annual record of 45 aircraft recorded in April. happened chinese answer for visit with United States of America between President Tsai Ing-wenand meeting with him Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives. This ADIZ national territories and areas much larger than the vertically projected airspace over their own waters. Their job is to give governments more time to respond to a threat. They are not regulated by international law and are arbitrarily determined by countries.
Few governments are more optimistic than the Taiwanese: theirs coincides with China’s and even enters its territory. beijing I used to respect him but after visiting Taipei related to Nancy Pelosi, McCarthy’s predecessor, raids became more frequent. They often overlap diplomatic maneuvers Taiwan, which Beijing interprets as challenges, is almost always in the middle of the US. Tsai’s last visit to Washington was followed by three stormy days of rehearsal for the island’s sea and air blockade. The cause of morning excess is unknown.
solidification of blocks
maneuvers in peacefulhuge arena for war games, solidification of blocks. beijing And Moscow In the words of the first, they held “a joint routine patrol exercise” earlier in the week. did not please South Korea to enter your ADIZ without asking for permission. Seoul deployed fighters on Tuesday as soon as it detected four Chinese and as many Russian planes to “prevent accidental crashes” and filed a formal complaint with its embassies yesterday.
HE Ministry of Defense He also asked the two countries to “take the necessary measures to prevent a repetition of the attacks” and underlined the “regional tensions” they cause. Moreover Tokyo He had ordered his fighters to take off on Tuesday in response to four Chinese and Russian bombers taking off. sea of japan before returning East China Sea.
It is not the first time that Sino-Russian maneuvers have taken place. South Korea And Japan. The first had dispatched fighters when it spotted the bombers at ADIZ in November last year, and the second had protested the maneuvers that coincided with the Tokyo summit of QUAD, a Washington-sponsored defense organization, six months earlier.
polarized world
The region reflects the turmoil of an increasingly polarized world. A described NATO office inside Tokyofirst AsiaTriggered all the alarms inside China aligns with Russia accusing him of fueling the fire in Ukraine. In routine military maneuvers, great care can be taken on all sides to avoid a deadly engagement, but the increasing density of warships and warplanes breeds the risk of accidents.
The weekend wasn’t far away, but a hundred yards averted a collision. chinese warship and one american destroyer inside Taiwan Strait. weekend security summit Singapore It proved the lack of dialogue between the two powers. Chinese He refused the bilateral meeting offered by the United States, fed up with the contrast between his declared goodwill and the urge to step on all his corn. HE US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austinexpressed “deep concern” over China’s refusal to agree on “crisis management mechanisms”. Beijing says crises will be averted if the United States stops flying its ships and planes off the coast.