U.S., Japan Slam China's 'Destabilizing' Move On East China Sea Airspacee

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

(Reuters) - Japan and ally the United States sharply criticized China's move to impose new rules on airspace over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Tokyo, warning of an escalation into the "unexpected" if Beijing enforces the rules.

China's government-run Xinhua news agency published coordinates for a newly established "East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone," which covers most of that sea and includes the skies over the disputed islands.

Beijing warned that it would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly in the airspace.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the move was unacceptable. "It could well lead to an unforeseen situation," he told reporters on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/24/us-china-japan-idUSBRE9AM02920131124

[Trillo]

1. Iran saber rattling is quieter

gotta rattle the sabers elsewhere.

[Purveyor]

2. I don't think this one is it but it sounds like Syria is heating up and the bastard gov't in israel

is also eager to 'do them'.

Hopefully the President won't throw them a bone by agreeing to action in Syria just to shut the 'snot-blowers' in israel up over Iran.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. China is rattling the sabers here. nt

[roamer65]

4. China is flexing its regional muscle, after getting us to swallow the Iran deal.

The Chinese want that Iranian oil.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

5. I often wonder...

...how much of it they have been getting all along.