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Chinese officers told Japan about expanded air defense zone in 2010
The minutes of an
informal meeting between Japanese and Chinese government officials held
on May 14-15, 2010, is pictured on Dec. 31, 2013. (Mainichi)
Senior officers in the People's Liberation Army
Navy (PLAN) informed Japanese government officials of China's Air
Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) covering the Senkaku Islands in
Okinawa Prefecture all the way back in 2010, according to secret
documents obtained by the Mainichi Shimbun.
According to the documents -- the minutes of an informal meeting between the PLA officers and Japanese government officials at the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies in Beijing on May 14-15, 2010 -- China had already established the ADIZ but had yet to make it public. Furthermore, the zone presented to the Japanese officials is almost identical to that declared by the Chinese government in November 2013. The revelations indicate that China had been doing the groundwork for the declaration of the ADIZ for at least three and a half years before its official announcement.
The minutes show that a Chinese navy commodore with the PLA's naval warfare research institute not only revealed the existence of the ADIZ, but also stated that it roughly matched what China claimed as its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf -- one way to define a nation's ocean borders. The commodore clearly explained that the Senkakus were inside this zone.
According to the documents -- the minutes of an informal meeting between the PLA officers and Japanese government officials at the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies in Beijing on May 14-15, 2010 -- China had already established the ADIZ but had yet to make it public. Furthermore, the zone presented to the Japanese officials is almost identical to that declared by the Chinese government in November 2013. The revelations indicate that China had been doing the groundwork for the declaration of the ADIZ for at least three and a half years before its official announcement.
The minutes show that a Chinese navy commodore with the PLA's naval warfare research institute not only revealed the existence of the ADIZ, but also stated that it roughly matched what China claimed as its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf -- one way to define a nation's ocean borders. The commodore clearly explained that the Senkakus were inside this zone.
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