Public-Opinion Poll about China
The US Gallup and The Yomiuri-shimbun Newspaper of Japan recently conducted a survey targeting American citizens and Japanese people.
One of major findings is that those who trust China account for only 5% among Japanese respondents but 32% among Americans.
Japanese who think that the relationship of their country with China is bad account for 87%, while the ratio is only 21% in the US.
Japanese who don't trust China account for 88%; and Americans who don't trust China account for 66% but 32% Americans trust China.
What the most concerns Japanese about is China's hostilities over the Senkaku Islands and territories of countries surrounding China; the ratio of Japanese who point to this issue as the largest source of anxiety is 89%. For Americans, the gravest concern about China is on a human-right issue, which is cited by 84% of American respondents.
This data can be understood better when we look at the recent reckless movement of China.
The East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (abbreviated ADIZ) is an Air Defense Identification Zone covering most of the East China Sea where the People's Republic of China announced that it was introducing new air traffic restrictions in November 2013. The area consists of the airspace from about, and including, the Japanese administered Senkaku Islands (known as the Diaoyu Islands in mainland China) north to South Korean-claimed Socotra Rock (known as Suyan Jiao in China). About half of the area overlaps with a Japanese ADIZ, while also overlapping to a small extent with the South Korean and Taiwanese ADIZ. When introduced the Chinese initiative was controversial as requirements were imposed that other countries with air defense identification zones do not impose[1] and it included contested maritime areas.[2] Critics said the move escalated the Senkaku Islands territorial dispute between China and Japan.
It looks like a very stupid aggression by a rogue country. China has responsibility to maintain peace around its border to foreign countries. And no countries now pose any military threats to China. Situations have been the same since the Korean War ended in 1953 or the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, the US, etc. have not changed their territorial concepts and frameworks in these years. Only China has become so militarily aggressive and diplomatically high-handed along with growth and expansion of its economy.
Like a cheap gangster getting big and easy money, China is now claiming that it is no more a poor and weak hoodlum, exhibiting a new gun he recently purchased.
China's new air defense zone above Senkakus 'very dangerous' escalation, Japan says
AFP-JIJI, KYODO
NOV 23, 2013
BEIJING – The government branded as “very dangerous” China's announcement Saturday that it has set up an East China Sea air defense identification zone that includes the Japan-held Senkaku Islands.
The Chinese Defence Ministry said the zone was created to “guard against potential air threats,” but the move will only inflame a bitter sovereignty row over the islets, which China claims as Diaoyu.
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Four Chinese Coast Guard boats briefly entered Japan's territorial waters around the Senkakus on Friday, after multiple incursions at the end of October and the beginning of this month further aggravated tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera in late October said the repeated incursions are a threat to peace and fall in a “gray zone (between) peacetime and an emergency situation.”
A few days earlier, his Chinese counterpart had threatened Japan that any bid to shoot down China’s drones would constitute “an act of war.” That move came after a report said Japan had drafted plans to destroy foreign drones that encroach on its airspace if warnings to leave are ignored.
Sino-Japanese relations have remained icy for more than a year because of the Senkakus dispute, which was revived when Japan purchased three of the five main islets in September 2012, effectively nationalizing the entire chain. Since then, China has regularly sent coast guard vessels to the islets, which lie 400 km west of Okinawa and 200 km northeast of Taiwan.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/11/23/national/china-sets-up-air-defense-id-zone-above-senkakus/#.Uq-yhPRdUuc
Refer to the following report, too.
http://eereporter.blogspot.jp/2010/10/yesterday-two-miracles-however-you.html
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