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November 27th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Beijing issued a map on Saturday of an Air Defense Identification Zone demanding that any aircraft entering the region should identify themselves and accept Chinese instructions.
“China has the capability to exercise effective control over the relevant airspace,” said a brief statement released by Chinese Defense Ministry on Wednesday. The statement said the B-52s were detected and monitored as they flew through the zone for two hours and 22 minutes.
Pentagon officials said Tuesday that the bombers were on route training mission planned long in advance of the Chinese announcement on Saturday.
The US move, a senior Pentagon official said, “was a demonstration of long-established international rights to freedom of navigation and transit through international airspace.” The official called the unilateral Chinese declaration of expanded control as “provocative,” saying it “only increases the risk of miscalculation in the region.”
China had threatened on Saturday that it could possibly target any aircraft that enter the region without identifying itself.
The Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday that the country’s sole aircraft carrier, Liaoning, has also departed for first-ever sea trials in the South China Sea, a mission likely to draw security amid China’s drive to assert its recent claims.
The news agency said the cruise aims to test the Liaoning’s crew and equipment over long distances and a variety of sea conditions.
The Associated Press said the ship was accompanied by two destroyers and two missile cruisers – elements of a standard aircraft carrier battle group – when it left its northern home port of Qingdao. The cruise has launched and recovered jet fighters but not yet been given its full complement of aircraft.
The US has seen itself as the dominant power in Asia for long years and is now concerned about China’s growing influence in the region. Chinese officials however, say the zone is in line with the practice of other nations that have similar zones to protect their coasts.
Earlier in the month, a US congressional panel, which advises lawmakers on the national security implications of the relationship between Washington and Beijing, warned that China could possess the largest fleet of modern submarine and combatant ships in the western Pacific by 2020.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its annual report that Beijing’s military modernization is challenging decades of US pre-eminence in the region.
The commission recommended that Congress should fund shipbuilding and increase the Navy’s operational presence in the region in support of the Defense Department’s goal to base 60 percent of its warships in the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, compared with about 50 percent currently.
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