in Early July, the United States has become a cross two doors-planes in this disputed area, as large as six times the size of France.
This is a clear signal addressed to the administration Trump : China announced on Thursday that it had carried out military exercises air “high intensity” in the south China sea, disputed area where the U.s. has to cross two aircraft carriers.
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The chinese government claims, in the name of historical reasons, almost all of the islets and reefs in the maritime region in the face of the other coastal states (Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Brunei). Each nation controls a number of islands. The United States opposed the claims of China. They lead a regular basis with the vessels of war of the operations named “freedom of navigation” in the south China sea.
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“to Improve the combat capability of troops”
In this context, the naval aviation china has conducted “recently” exercise “high-intensity” with bomber, H-6G, H-6J and other aircraft in the south China sea, said Ren Guoqiang, a spokesman for the ministry of Defence.
“They performed take-offs and landings, both day and night raids, long-distance or even attack sea-based targets. The expected goals have been achieved”, he stressed at a press briefing monthly on-line. The exact location of the maneuvers has not been clarified. The south China sea is as large as six times the metropolitan France and in some areas, especially those close to the chinese continent, are not in dispute.
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Ren Guoqiang introduced these exercises as a way to “improve the level of technical and tactical pilots as well as combat ability of the troops”. A signal clearly addressed in the United States. The two countries are at loggerheads on the subject, even more after the finish, unusual at the beginning of July in the south China sea of two us aircraft carriers.
“Referee”
Another source of tension : officially neutral until here, the head of american diplomacy Mike Pompeo has taken an ostensibly party in mid-July for residents opposed to Beijing, saying the claims of the chinese “illegal”. “The world will not allow China to treat the south China sea as its maritime empire,” he further said.
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The United States “consider themselves as a referee” in the area but do not do what is “sabotaging the peace, said Thursday the spokesperson for Ren Guoqiang. The american minister of Defence, Mark Esper, has, however, announced last week his intention to visit China before the end of 2020, in the hope of defusing the tensions.
