New York Times: U.S. Flies B-52s Through China’s Expanded Air Defense Zone
BREAKING NEWS Tuesday,
November 26, 2013 12:47 PM EST
Two long-range American bombers have conducted what Pentagon
officials described Tuesday as a routine training mission through international
air space recently claimed by China as its “air defense identification zone.”
The Chinese government said Saturday that it has the right
to identify, monitor and possibly take military action against aircraft that
enter the area, which includes sea and islands also claimed by Japan. The claim
threatens to escalate an already tense dispute over some of the maritime
territory.
American officials said the pair of B-52s carried out a
mission that had been planned long in advance of the Chinese announcement this
past weekend, and that the United States military would continue to assert its
right to fly through what it regards as international air space.
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