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Edo Naito: "When Xi Jinping visited the China Coast Guard and Naval bases in December, he ordered them to ratchet up pressure on the entire SCS without any basis in international law, as well as parts of the ECS he falsely claims, and so we have it. They are now trying to enforce a self-proclaimed illegally proclaimed ADIZ, which, of course, Japan will reject out of hand. As will the US and all of other other partners and allies.

Japan has had to scramble fighter jets on average 750 times each and every year for the past decade (since Xi arrived) - 80% for CCP China and the rest for Russia as well as daily kabuki dances by CCP Coast Guard with Japanese Coast Guard. And, then 2-3 times a year, joint PLAN and Russian naval flotillas would gather, and the PLAN Carrier Strike Groups would park off of Okinawa and practice bombing runs and missile strikes against Japanese cities. Japan SDF, in turn, got in a lot of anti-sub work AD2D, and torpedo firing drills.

But if Xi is really going to try and enforce this illegal sea and air ADIZ, then a lot more planes and many more grey hull ships will be meeting each other even more frequently than before. To date, CCP China has not attempted any of the over-the-top high-risk stuff it has in the West Philippine Sea."

Taiwan Security Issues: "China’s move shows that it is a pressing issue for the Japanese government to take action to deal with Beijing’s attempt to change the status quo by force. China’s ADIZ, established in November 2013, overlaps with Japan’s and includes the Senkaku Islands, over which China claims sovereignty."

China Deploys Multiple Warships Around Self-Claimed ADIZ
China is deploying multiple warships around the clock in waters near the borders of the air defense identification zone that it has unilaterally established, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. A photograph taken by a Yomiuri Shimbun journalist on Dec. 30 showed a Jiangkai II-class guided-missile frigate of the Chinese Navy. Air defense identification zones, or ADIZs, are set up by individual countries outside their territorial airspace to prevent incursions. Countries decide whether there is a possibility of their airspace being entered, and whether their fighter aircraft should scramble. Just passing through Japan’s ADIZ does not result in the scrambling of Self-Defense Forces planes. China is operating the zone on the premise that it is Chinese airspace. Aircraft that fly within its ADIZ are told to immediately leave.
The Japan News桜井

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