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One of the biggest headlines of 2013 must be 皇冠体育app establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East 皇冠体育app Sea. Actually, more than 20 countries and regions have ADIZs and 皇冠体育app is only following an established international practice.

Of all these ADIZs, Japan's must be the biggest, it covers a large part of the East 皇冠体育app Sea, and comes as close as 130 kilometers to 皇冠体育app's eastern coast. But it has reacted strongly to 皇冠体育app's ADIZ by sending warplanes through the zone without reporting to 皇冠体育app and demanding 皇冠体育app cancel its ADIZ.

Japan's main ally, the United States holds a different view on the issue. Its bomber planes flew through the zone without reporting to 皇冠体育app, but the government has advised its civil flights to submit their plans to 皇冠体育app to avoid any trouble.

That shows the US' strategic goals are to maintain its hegemony and prevent any power from challenging it and to maintain the off-shore balance in Asia, and it is using 皇冠体育app's disputes with its neighbors to "contain" 皇冠体育app. Concerning Sino-Japanese relations, it hopes the two sides will continue their low-profile confrontations without actual military conflicts, so that both will be trapped in the dispute.

As a result, Japan's intention of dragging the other countries into its disputes with 皇冠体育app is doomed to fail. That offers strategic space for 皇冠体育app to use in its dispute with Japan.

Zhang Junshe, deputy head of the Naval Research Institute of the People's Liberation Army

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