B-52 américains dans la zone aérienne chinoise

La zone aérienne a récemment été mise en place par la Chine et elle est dénoncée par Taïwan, le Japon et la Corée du sud. Les États-Unis affirment que cette zone est toujours ouverte et ils n'ont pas envoyé le plan de vol, condition exigée par la Chine.

 "A senior Pentagon official said that the mission overnight Monday from Guam “was a demonstration of long-established international rights to freedom of navigation and transit through international airspace.” The official said the unilateral Chinese declaration of expanded control “was provocative,” and “only increases the risk of miscalculation in the region.”

 There was no immediate Chinese response to the flights conducted without prior notification as demanded under the new declaration from Beijing, which asserted the right to identify, monitor and possibly take military action against any aircraft that enter the area. The unexpected announcement by China was among its boldest moves yet in a struggle for power in Asia with the United States, and by extension its regional allies including Japan. The United States, long the dominant power in the region, has been scrambling to shore up its influence there, promising, in what it called a “pivot” to Asia in 2011, to refocus its energies after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan diverted its time and resources."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/world/asia/us-flies-b-52s-into-chinas-expanded-air-defense-zone.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131127&_r=0