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US B-52 bombers challenge disputed China air zone.

Higgins86 said:
Guess I will spell it out for you.

You brought up Cuba saying it would be like the US claiming Cuban airspace, this isn't the case as you have no legimate reason to do that where as China do. Your comparing an island where you have no historical connection and is inhabited by a population of a few million with a working government to a bunch of unihabited islands.

I would appreciate if you dropped the attiude as well, if doesnt make you sound big or clever.
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Sorry it's taken a bit of time to get back to this as I was out of town.

First, I didn't say that it would be like the US claiming Cuban airspace. My point, that you missed and inserted what you wanted to hear, was that when there is disputed airspace, the best thing to do is negotiate a reasonable settlement including a third party arbitrator. Certain places we extend our ADIZ out pretty far, other places we don't because that would be encroaching on another nation's sovereignty. The picture that was attached was meant to show that we curb our ADIZ a bit near Cuba to account for their presence. China unilaterally extended their ADIZ to include contested islands, and that is not something we should condone.

Second, with regard to my "attitude", perhaps you could not read into an argument and suppose things that only you have constructed in your head. Also, something that you could do to stem people's attitudes is to make a point instead of asserting an obvious comment that has nothing to do with what was written in the first place.
 
SBu said:
Sorry it's taken a bit of time to get back to this as I was out of town.

First, I didn't say that it would be like the US claiming Cuban airspace. My point, that you missed and inserted what you wanted to hear, was that when there is disputed airspace, the best thing to do is negotiate a reasonable settlement including a third party arbitrator. Certain places we extend our ADIZ out pretty far, other places we don't because that would be encroaching on another nation's sovereignty. The picture that was attached was meant to show that we curb our ADIZ a bit near Cuba to account for their presence. China unilaterally extended their ADIZ to include contested islands, and that is not something we should condone.

Second, with regard to my "attitude", perhaps you could not read into an argument and suppose things that only you have constructed in your head. Also, something that you could do to stem people's attitudes is to make a point instead of asserting an obvious comment that has nothing to do with what was written in the first place.
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No what you were saying was absoloute rubbish and you tried to drive your point home using Cuba as an example which of course is not comparable by any stretch of the imagination. The fact is Japan have been doing the same thing for years but the US says nothing because Japan is a puppet state. Japan has demarcated a similar identification zone in the East China Sea for years which has been expanding ever since the US let them off the leash. The western-most line of Japan's zone stretches all the way to China and is only about 135km from China's coast at the closest point, but hey I mean China is the real aggressor here right?
 
well that didn't take long. Someone in the world is in trouble, they call in the cavalry (us)
 
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