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How a Tiny Island Chain Explains the China-Japan Dispute
So far, much of the discussion of China's air-defense identification zone (ADIZ), a new law requiring foreign aircraft to notify China when they fly over a designated region in the East China Sea, has centered on Beijing's motivations: What is China trying to accomplish by instituting the zone? And, considering that it triggered immediate opposition from the United States and Japan, was this decision a mistake?
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It strikes me as silly that some US military and government sources have complained about China "changing the status quo".
OF COURSE they want to change the status quo! What, do these people think China likes being a second-rate power compared to the USA? Nobody should be surprised that they want to take the top spot.
No one is surprised that China wants to "take the top spot". We are siding with Japan, our ally, they have a slightly different concern re: "staus quo" ............national territory.