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kwaigonegin

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Given the 'get tough with China' rhetoric from Trump, and his close circle of advisors like Peter Navarro, Stephen Miller, Rex Tillerson, Wilbur Ross, and Robert Lighthizer, whatever made you think US-China relations would improve under Trump's administration?

I said I 'didn't' .. as in past tense... as in before all these rhetorics came out obviously.
 
I know I've heard about a half of a day late Chinese ships sail near disputed Japanese islands
Three Chinese Coast Guard ships entered waters near a chain of islands claimed by both China and Japan in the East China Sea on Monday, according to authorities from both sides.
Japan controls the chain and calls them the Senkaku Islands, while China calls them the Diaoyu Islands.
The sailing comes just days after
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According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, protests were lodged with the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo and in Beijing through the Japanese Embassy.
Tensions have flashed numerous times in recent years over the disputed islands, including
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by both sides.

China's State Oceanic Administration, which oversees the country's Coast Guard, put out a statement late Monday saying the three ships "cruised within China's Diaoyu Islands territorial sea."
China's Defense Ministry, which is separate from the Oceanic Administration, posted a statement on its website confirming the Coast Guard ship movement.
Japan's Coast Guard said the Chinese vessels spent two hours in Japanese territorial waters.
It was the fourth time Chinese ships have entered Japan's waters this year, the Japanese Coast Guard said. There were 36 such incidents in 2016, it said.

Despite the frequency of the Chinese sailings, experts said having one so soon after Mattis' visit to Japan sent a subtle message to both Tokyo and Washington.
"It is both a signal that China won't be intimidated from defending its interests/claims and a test to see how the new (Trump) administration responds," said Carl Schuster, a professor at Hawaii Pacific University and former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center.
Denny Roy, an Asian security expert at the East-West Center in Honolulu, said ship movements in disputed waters could result in a shooting incident.
"The danger is especially high considering military personnel on both sides are often eager to demonstrate their determination to defend what they consider national territory," Roy said.

And a China-Japan military confrontation could bring US forces into play.
During a press conference Saturday in Tokyo,
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with Japan.

"I made clear that our long-standing policy on the Senkaku Islands stands -- the US will continue to recognize Japanese administration of the islands and as such Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty applies," Mattis said in an appearance with Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.
The US position was reinforced Tuesday in a phone call between Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and the new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to a statement from Japan's Foreign Ministry.
"The United States will be against any unilateral action made to damage the Japanese administration of the Senkaku Islands," Tillerson stated during the call, according to the Japanese statement.
China responded quickly on Saturday to the US stance on the islands, saying it brings instability to the region.

"Diaoyu and its affiliated islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times. These are historical facts that cannot be changed. The so-called US-Japan security treaty was a product of the Cold War, and it should not harm China's territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement.
"We urge the US side to adopt a responsible attitude and stop making wrong remarks on the issue of the sovereignty of Diaoyu Islands," Lu said.
The US commitment to the Senkakus is not new. In 2014, the Obama administration also said the remote chain fell under the treaty.

In late 2013, China declared an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over much of the East China Sea, including the Senkakus, despite objections from Tokyo and Washington.
Japan also has an ADIZ over the islands. Although the Senkakus are uninhabited, their ownership would allow for exclusive oil, mineral and fishing rights in the surrounding waters.
While the Senkakus remain a source of friction in the US-China relationship, Mattis' visit seemed to have soothed relations a bit in another area, the South China Sea.
Although the US defense chief said "China has shredded the trust of nations in the region" by fortifying disputed South China Sea islands, Mattis also said no increased US military maneuvers there were needed.
Lu, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, on Monday welcomed that stance.
"As for Mattis' comment that there is no need for large-scale military operations in the area and the issue should be resolved through diplomacy, these remarks deserve our affirmation," Lu said.
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Blitzo

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I know I've heard about a half of a day late Chinese ships sail near disputed Japanese islands

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Technically more related in the coast guard thread.

And it's not exactly new for those who are unfamiliar, I think CCG has done sailbys quite consistently over the last few years.
 

weig2000

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Not sure which thread is the most appropriate one, but don't want to start a new thread for this.... The article is too long, only the key finding part are posted.
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February 8, 2017
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Key Findings

Both in the volume and the conference on which it is based, contributors reached general consensus concerning the following: China has achieved the most rapid aggregate SBI growth in modern history, with monumental but uneven results. Through a process of “imitative innovation,” the country has leapfrogged key development steps, saving time and resources. By 2020, the PLAN will be unambiguously the world’s second-largest blue-water navy. Moreover, if current trends continue, by 2030 China may assemble a combat fleet that in overall order of battle (hardware only) is quantitatively, and perhaps even qualitatively, in the same league as the USN. In my personal opinion, even the perception that China was on track to achieve such parity would have grave consequences for America’s standing and influence across the Asia-Pacific and around the world.

To be sure, China faces substantial difficulties in fielding the largest, most sophisticated surface combatants and submarines. They all involve complex systems-of-systems, such as propulsion and aspects of aviation, in which China’s preferred second-mover piecemeal integration of foreign and domestic technologies cannot offer a “good enough” result. Such ongoing limitations, as well as a lack of overseas bases, mean that far from its shores China will continue to extend radiating layers of
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but not—anytime soon—control. Even by 2030, the PLAN will remain in the early stages of increasing operational proficiency and ability to engage in high-intensity opposed operations in distant waters. Moreover, in coming years, China also faces mounting costs of maintaining its burgeoning fleet. China also confronts macro uncertainties, most importantly in the form of downside risks to its future economic growth. Meanwhile, it seems destined to confront a
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in the form of
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But regardless of these challenges, in coordination with China’s other sea forces (including the coast guard and maritime militia) and services, the PLAN is increasingly capable of contesting sea control within widening-range rings surrounding the near seas and their immediate approaches. China’s SBI has already produced a fleet of several hundred (currently in the low 300s;
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) increasingly advanced warships capable of “flooding the zone” along the contested East Asian littoral. When several hundred ships each from China’s coast guard and its most advanced maritime militia units are factored in, Beijing’s numerical preponderance for the “home game” scenarios it cares about most becomes formidable indeed. And that does not even include the land-based “
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” that backstops them. In this regard, while China continues a major ship buildout with tremendous implications, it is already able to pose a formidable military-maritime challenge to the regional interests and security of the United States and its East Asian allies and partners. Despite its ongoing limitations further afield, China has already proven itself capable of precisely the sort of maritime development that rightly concerns them most.

Central to this Chinese
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is the PLAN’s overmatching of the USN in key aspects of missile loadouts. Left unaddressed, this disparity is likely to worsen as China deploys greater quantities of missiles with greater ranges than those systems potentially employed by the USN against them. By 2020, China is expected to have:

• quantitative parity or better in surface-to-air missiles and antiship
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(ASCMs)

• parity in missile launch cells

• and quantitative inferiority only in multi-mission land-attack cruise missiles, which are less essential to prevailing worst-case
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or “war at sea” scenarios.

As with the platforms on which they are based, these Chinese weapons are concentrated in the near seas, while their American counterparts are dispersed globally. To make matters worse, the next-generation long-range ASCMs on which U.S. naval superiority hinges are still “paper missiles” not yet fielded on USN surface combatants. Moreover, these new ASCMs—the Long-Range Antiship Missile and vertical launch system–compatible Naval Strike Missile variant—may not be effectively targetable under contested
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I noticed in Russian Internet (
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PUBLISHED : Monday, 13 February, 2017, 7:02am
UPDATED : Monday, 13 February, 2017, 9:58am):
No advanced jet launch system for China’s third aircraft carrier, experts say
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The PLA will use conventional steam catapults to launch aircraft on its second domestically made flat-top, military specialists say

China will not adopt highly advanced electromagnetic take-off technology on its second domestically built aircraft carrier but instead rely on a conventional system, naval experts say.

TheType 002 vessel the country’s third aircraft carrier after the Liaoning and the Type 001A carrier under construction in Dalian – would be equipped with at least three conventional steam launch catapults, a source close to the navy told the South China Morning Post.

But it would be the first Chinese aircraft carrier to use this type of launch system.

“There are still some technical problems applying nuclear propulsion to the carrier platform, so the Type 002 will still use steam catapults,” the source said.

“But this is still a breakthrough compared with Liaoning and the Type 001A carrier, both of which are equipped with ski-jump ramps.

“It will [also] take a couple of years for the newest carrier to enter full service after its launch, as it takes two or three years to train carrier-based pilots.”

Professor Jin Yinan, a former director of the strategic research institute at the People’s Liberation Army National Defence University, said in December that construction of the Type 002 started at the Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard in Shanghai in March 2015.

Hong Kong-based military expert Liang Guoliang said China planned to produce two Type 002 carriers, each with a displacement of 85,000 tonnes, which would make them the biggest Chinese carriers. The Liaoning is about 55,000 tonnes while the Type 001A will be 70,000 tonnes.

The first Type 002 carrier was expected to be launched in about 2021, Liang added.

There had been speculation that the Type 002 could be a nuclear-powered vessel with an electromagnetic take-off system.

But Li Jie, a Beijing-based military expert, said it would be impossible to develop a completely new generation carrier in just a few years.

“Different systems need different technology, technicians and pilots,” Li said.

“For example, the Type 001A is scheduled to be launched later this year, but it will take several more years to develop as part of a real battle group before entering full service in the navy.”

Meanwhile, Andrei Chang, founder of military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence, said the Type 001A was “purely a copycat” of the Varyag, which was laid down as a Kuznetsov-class carrier for the Soviet navy in the 1970s, before it was sold to China and refurbished as the Liaoning.

Li said that while the appearance of the Type 001A may be similar to the Liaoning, its layout, interior equipment and overall operational concept would be more advanced than the Liaoning.

Li said one difference was the Type 001’s take-off ramp slope of 12 degrees, compared with 14 degrees for the Liaoning.

The 12-degree ramp would help fighters shorten their take-off distance, save fuel and increase their weapons payload while strengthening the ship’s structure,Li said.

“There are different operational concepts between the Liaoning and Type 001A,” he said.

“Based on the Varyag design, the Liaoning was designedwith both weapons systems and aircraft in an equally important layout, but the Type 001A has learned from US carriers to focus on how to make aircraft on board more functional.”

According to Li, certain weapons were excluded from the Type 001A platform to allow more carrier-based J-15 parking. The hanger was also being expanded to allow the new carrier to carry between six and eight more J-15 fighter jets than the Liaoning.

“The control tower island on the deck was shrunk 10 per cent, which allow the deck to dock more helicopters and fixed-wing early-warning aircraft,” he said, adding that four weapons sponsons, or projections, on the aft deck had been dismantled.

S-band radars with four large antennae would be installed on the top of control tower, he said.

The system is China’s most advanced and is capable of covering a 360-degree search field to scout dozens of targets in the air and at sea.

Four HQ-10 short-range air defence missiles systems with 24 tubes would also deployed on the new ship, Li said.

This weapons system is also mounted on the navy’s most advanced Type 052D destroyers and Type 056 frigates.

However, Macau-based military observerAntony Wong Dong said the country’s limited production capacity for carrier-based J-15s might hinder the 001A entering full service on schedule.

“The Liaoning was designed to carry up to one aviation regiment, or 24 carrier-based fighters.

“But the vessel so far has got only about 20 carrier-based J-15 because the [state-owned] Aeroengine Corporation has not yet developed a reliable replacement for the Russian-produced AL-31 models.

“It’s likely that the Type 001A will face the same problems as the Liaoning.”
LOL now noticed it was probably debunked in
CV-17/001A Shandong carrier development and news Thread
(I don't subscribe to this thread, had I visited it before, I wouldn't have posted the above article, sorry)
 
Any examples of similar laws anywhere else? They will require detection and sufficient patrollers to enforce this. Lots more PLAN 056A, 054A+ or CCG faux-056?

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WORLD NEWS | Wed Feb 15, 2017 | 3:12am EST
China considering making foreign submersibles travel on surface

China is considering revisions to its maritime safety law which would make foreign submersibles travel on the surface and report their movements to authorities when in China's waters, state media said.

China set off a dispute with the United States in December when a Chinese naval vessel took a U.S. underwater drone in the disputed South China Sea, though China later returned it.

The draft revisions, reported by the official China News Service late on Tuesday, make no direct mention of the South China Sea.

"Foreign submersibles, passing though territorial waters of the People's Republic of China, should travel on the surface, raise their national flag, and report to Chinese maritime management administrations," the news service cited the draft revision as saying, without giving details.

The draft will also allow Chinese maritime authorities to stop foreign ships entering Chinese waters if the ships are judged to be a possible cause of harm to navigational safety and order, the China News Service said.

China claims a large part of the South China Sea, and has been constructing artificial islands and boosting its military presence in the waterway.

Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei also claim parts of the waters, that command strategic sea lanes and have rich fishing grounds along with oil and gas deposits.

China has a separate dispute with Japan over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.

China has repeatedly said it is committed to freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, and has been upset with the U.S. military for carrying out freedom of navigation operations close to Chinese-controlled islands.

The China News Service said the revisions to the law were based on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and Chinese laws on the sea, adjacent areas and exclusive economic zones.

The revisions will "increase the basic system of managing foreign ships entering and exiting territorial waters, inoffensive passage, right of hot pursuit and expulsion", it added.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)
 

Hendrik_2000

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Any examples of similar laws anywhere else? They will require detection and sufficient patrollers to enforce this. Lots more PLAN 056A, 054A+ or CCG faux-056?

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It is UNCLOS convention Part II article 20. the convention is clear but some country use sleight of hand by using socalled civilian crewed vessel doing exactly what is not considered as innocent passage. That way circumspect the convention
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This article will examine the challenges related to evaluating whether embarking privately contracted armed security personnel (PCASP) aboard a merchant ship is contrary to the regime of innocent passage and whether vessels with embarked security teams are required to give prior notice of passage to coastal states.


Article20

Submarines and other underwater vehicles

In the territorial sea, submarines and other underwater vehicles are required to navigate on the surface and to show their flag.


Article25

Rights of protection of the coastal State

1. The coastal State may take the necessary steps in its territorial sea to prevent passage which is not innocent.

2. In the case of ships proceeding to internal waters or a call at a port facility outside internal waters, the coastal State also has the right to take the necessary steps to prevent any breach of the conditions to which admission of those ships to internal waters or such a call is subject.

3. The coastal State may, without discrimination in form or in fact among foreign ships, suspend temporarily in specified areas of its territorial sea the innocent passage of foreign ships if such suspension is essential for the protection of its security, including weapons exercises. Such suspension shall take effect only after having been duly published.


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Janiz

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Any examples of similar laws anywhere else? They will require detection and sufficient patrollers to enforce this. Lots more PLAN 056A, 054A+ or CCG faux-056?
I don't know what those 'Chinese waters' are but surely it isn't half of East or South Chinese Sea. If they mean it they're... lunatics. That's all.
 

kf6bka

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Chinese waters, in their view, is the SCS and ECS. That's what they recognize. Now the question will be enforcement. I have a suspicion this is saber rattling like the ADIZ in the ECS. There but not enforced.
 
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