{"id":1622,"date":"2017-03-26T22:58:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2017-03-26T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T03:04:08","slug":"737-tests-china-adiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/737-tests-china-adiz\/","title":{"rendered":"US 737 tests the China ADIZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China<\/strong>: Go away quickly please<br \/>\n<strong>US Aircraft<\/strong>: Nope<br \/>\n<strong>China<\/strong>: Go away quickly!<br \/>\n<strong>US Aircraft<\/strong>: No!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bL5zzk_iI-c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The US is doing us all a huge favour at the moment. In fact, it&#8217;s been providing this service to the world for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often, a country extends its borders a little too far &#8211; outside the normal 12nm limit, for example.\u00a0<strong>China has been busy<\/strong>. They&#8217;ve been building some things in the South China Sea. Islands, in fact. And on those islands they&#8217;ve built runways, control towers, and big radars. Naturally, they confirmed\u00a0last Friday that they are for civilian use only. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/focus\/03\/24\/17\/chinese-premier-south-china-sea-installations-primarily-civilian\" target=\"_blank\">Hmmm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So the US dusts off an airplane and knocks on the door<\/strong>. Flies around for a bit. Sees what&#8217;s going on. And reminds the country that international waters are just that. They publish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1103747\/dod-releases-fy-2016-freedom-of-navigation-report\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> each year of where they&#8217;ve done this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Releases\/News-Release-View\/Article\/1103747\/dod-releases-fy-2016-freedom-of-navigation-report\" target=\"_blank\">Worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 they popped up an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone\" target=\"_blank\">ADIZ<\/a>. And made everyone passing through it copy their Flight Plans to Beijing. In principle, ADIZ&#8217;s are a pretty good idea. The normal 12nm isn&#8217;t really much time for the military to figure out if you&#8217;re coming to bomb them. Especially on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t tell airplanes to get out of an ADIZ. It&#8217;s an Identification Zone, not an Intercept Zone. So, normally ADIZ&#8217;s require you to squawk something and have a Flight Plan.<\/p>\n<p>That much is OK. But China has been warning aircraft to get out of &#8216;their airspace&#8217;. And it&#8217;s not. This 737 (aka P-8 Poseidon) went for a nosey.<\/p>\n<p>These operations help us all operating internationally to have less rules to worry about. Which is good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, most\u00a0abided by the 2015 ADIZ rules. In 2016 that adherence quietly eroded. And China quietly didn&#8217;t care too much. It did threaten a second ADIZ in the South China Sea, but since the first one didn&#8217;t really take off, they probably won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of a bigger diplomatic game. Interesting to watch, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China: Go away quickly please US Aircraft: Nope China: Go away quickly! 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