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China’s Navy breaks out to the high seas

By David Lague

(Reuters) – In late October, flotillas of Chinese warships and submarines sliced through passages in the Japanese archipelago and out into the western Pacific for 15 days of war games.

The drills, pitting a “red force” against a “blue force,” were the first in this area, combining ships from China’s main south, east and north fleets, according to the Chinese military. Land-based bombers and surveillance aircraft also flew missions past Japan to support the navy units.

In official commentaries, senior People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers boasted their navy had “dismembered” the so-called first island chain – the arc of islands enclosing China’s coastal waters, stretching from the Kuril Islands southward through the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, the Northern Philippines and down to Borneo. . . . (more)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/27/us-china-navy-specialreport-idUSBRE9AQ04220131127

With Air Defense Zone, China is Waging Lawfare

The BBC OIL FIELD MAP in the disputed area of the East China Sea is in this 2012 post –
East China Sea tension: China conducts naval exercises – Gas Field at Dispute Area

EX-SKF – China Says Japan Is the Prime Target of Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)

short link – http://wp.me/pA5vn-3aZ

UPDATE, June 9, 2014

China joins the United States for major naval drills < has a good MAP