China-US interest conflict over Pacific
China’s newly declared China’s Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), is seen as the Beijing’s strategy to become a super power. The Beijing government says that aircraft operating within this zone must follow certain rules such as filing flight plans or face defensive emergency measures. But the USA, Japan and South Korean military aircraft defied these rules and the Japanese commercial carriers have agreed to a government request not to comply.
The Beijing government’s silence astonished the whole world because China is the world’s second largest economy and its nuclear warheads can strike the US mainland over the Pacific Ocean. However, the following day, Chinese air force sent its fighter planes into the defence zone and warned the world that the intruders would henceforth face China’s defensive emergency measures. To this, when the military experts were fearing an limited war between China, on the one hand, and the USA, Japan and South Korea, on the other hand, the US recognition to the Chinese claim from the White House has certainly eased the situation.
For the moment, tension ends, but what will be the reaction of the Obama Administration if Beijing lands its troops in the disputed island claimed by both Japan and China and what would be the Chinese reaction to the possible US military base in the Bay of Bengal?
Asma Akhter
Rajshahi
