Friday, November 29, 2013



Some PRC guy was asked today if Chinese pilots would shoot down foreign aircraft. "No."
Then what does "emergency defensive measures" mean? Don't know. Ask the Foreign Ministry according to the Foreign Ministry.
The new Chinese ADIZ overlaps with Japanese and South Korean ADIZ...es. Do the South Korean and Japanese ADIZ's require overflight notification? Don't know.
Do the Chinese notify the South Koreans when they fly over their ADIZ? Don't know.
Do the Chinese notify the Japanese when they fly over their ADIZ? No.
That previously-quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry guy whose name I've forgotten said today that "commercial aircraft" were excluded from the notification demand. The official text doesn't make any distinction between civilian and military aircraft. Why? Don't know.