Let's make thing clear : Japan has right to scramble jets and to identify unknown aircraft in international airspace . It doesn't have right to open fire at it (unless attacked of course) , to threaten it , to cross its flightpath and endanger it .
Same goes for China , US or any other country .
Expect this to get the Chengdu gang off the back burner and back into the fifth gen fighter biz, the ADIZ is no doubt designed to do many of the things it has already done.
1. Respond to the Pacific pivot of US defense interests.
2."Ilustrate and Justify to the Chinese people the need to maintain a strong Naval and Air-Force presence in the Diayou and the entire ADIZ zone, stepping in to the role of the 2nd most powerful nation on earth with aspirations to be number 1.
3. "Inform" the neighbors that they are "new" power-brokers in the Region, and if you want to play, you will have to join our "League".
4.Renew a strategic partnership with Russia, to double team the opposition, playing good cop/bad cop, with NK as the problem child???
This is submitted respectfully by someone who realizes that our own "chest-thumping", and poor diplomacy skills have led to resentment of our "disrespectful" attitudes toward other cultures, as we love to admonish others, we really ought to have looked in the mirror.
I have no desire to see anyone subjugated under any circumstances, only to defend those freedoms which in my world view are God-Given, and to make it clear, with these freedoms come many responsibilities for all of us. Respectfully offered for your consideration....
Mods, please feel free to edit or delete this in part or in whole as to your good judgement. thank-you!
Bax Maggart