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Then the YouTube comment section saying how it’s our fault since we are close to China. I don’t know why I still read them.
I’m not a bot … at least I don’t think I am
But I still want to ask … why are Canadian military aircraft flying in international waters off the coast of China.
How would we feel if Chinese military aircraft were flying off the coast of Canada?
And there is military tension on Chinese borders, why would we want to further antagonize them?
Well it’s international airspace and nations can fly whatever they want inside international airspace regardless of the proximity to a nation.
Russians do it to Canada and the United States often but it doesn’t make much fanfare because the parties involved handle it professionally
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russian-bombers-buzz-canadian-airspace-1.5447833
why are Canadian military aircraft flying in international waters off the coast of China
From the description of the video, should you care to read it:
Global News was on board the Canadian military aircraft reporting on the mission, which is part of Operation NEON, Canada’s contribution to helping enforce sanctions against North Korea, when the aggressive intercepts took place.
Uh, they already do that. We generally don’t buzz the planes and antagonize them
It’s part of our role in ensuring international sanctions are followed
It’s about shipping lanes to North Korea, nothing to do with China
How would we feel if they sent spy balloons directly over our countries?
Canada > China, they don’t need permission to fly planes over the ocean
Footage really shows how crazy close they are willing to get, that’s sketchy as fuck.
Footage doesn’t show the escalation process though lol
What escalation process?
Inerceptions always follow a process of escalation. You don’t start an interception by going wing-to-wing (also because you don’t start your interception in sovereign airspace).
Also, in this case China recognizes that land as theirs and thus that the 12 nm around it are recognized as territorial waters. Thus, it recognizes that Canada intruded on their sovereign airspace… And in that context, China would be well within their rights to shoot the plane down. From what I understand, because it’s disputed between China and Japan, Canada asked Japan for permission but not China.
China has the most batshit, nonsensical territorial claims of any country on earth. They could shoot us down alright, but since everyone else on the planet would agree that it happened in international airspace, they would be really fucking stupid to do so
Except… That’s not at all what people are saying. It would be either Japanese airspace or Chinese airspace. It’s not China claiming an island alone. It’s China and some other party contesting the claims. Only the Western powers claim it to be international airspace.
Sabre rattling. They’re not going to engage. It’s about intimidation. They want reactionaries in North America to sound the alarm and make the first (wrong) move first.
To make the first move first?!