Roadmap of an Australian P-8A maritime patrol aircraft, which arrived in Okinawa on the 25th (left) The right picture shows the intrusion into the East China Sea air defense identification zone delineated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Amidst the ongoing tensions between the international community and the Chinese Communist Party, an Australian P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft suddenly intruded into the East China Sea air defense identification zone unilaterally determined by the Chinese Communist Party on March 2, which is very rare!
According to the Free Times, the SCS Probing Initiative, an official Chinese Communist Party agency that has long tracked U.S. developments, tweeted several maps of the P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft’s flight path on March 2, indicating that the patrol aircraft flew from Australia at 8:16 p.m. on Feb. 25. The aircraft took off from the south of Australia at 0816 hours on February 25, traveled northward, and arrived in Okinawa, Japan on the same day after passing through the Philippine Sea.
The patrol plane’s first military mission on February 2 was to fly directly into the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, which the South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Program platform called “rare!”
This is the latest development after the British and Japanese foreign and defense ministers held a “2+2” security summit on February 3, expressing concern about the situation in the South and East China Seas. In a statement following the Feb. 3 video summit between British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab and British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, the Defense Ministry said the U.K.’s flagship aircraft carrier The HMS Elizabeth carrier battle group will hold joint military exercises with Japan’s Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific Ocean this spring.
China’s Communist Party Strikes Out on All Sides, West Stands by
On Nov. 23, 2013, the Chinese Communist Party unilaterally established an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, including a group of uninhabited islands and waters that the Communist Party calls the Diaoyu Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan) but over which Japan claims natural sovereignty, a move that drew strong opposition from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Germany and France.
The Chinese Communist Party claims sovereignty over all waters in the South China Sea, but Western free societies are increasingly concerned about its arrogant behavior in the South China Sea. The Institute for Foreign Relations (IFR), a U.S. think tank, released a “Preventive Priorities Survey” on February 14 that said the most likely global conflict in 2021 would be in the North Korean region, followed by the Taiwan Strait, where the conflict crisis is at an all-Time high. Derek Grossman, a senior defense researcher at the RAND Corporation who led the survey, believes that the current situation in the South China Sea could also turn into an armed conflict.
In early February, France sent an attack submarine to the South China Sea, and the three U.S. aircraft carriers, including the Nimitz, Roosevelt and the USS Reagan at Yokosuka, Japan, are now gathered in the Indo-Pacific region.
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