China’s new air zone

As aired yesterday on Press TV's "The Debate." Watch me go toe to toe with Brent Budowski of The Hill:

On November 23, China issued a map of the zone and a set of rules that urge all aircrafts to notify Chinese authorities while passing over the area.


Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliament session on Monday that China’s move is unenforceable. China’s Defense Ministry has called Japan’s objection to the plan “absolutely groundless and unacceptable.”

Japan and China have long been engaged in a dispute over the sovereignty of the uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese.

The islands have been under Japanese administrative control since the reversion of Okinawa to Japan from the US administrative rule in 1972.

In this edition of the show we discuss what this move by China really means, a move that even limited action could still spark alarm across a nervous region.





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