[ml/nj]

Not so cool.

I hope this isn't true.

I don't think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.

ML/NJ

[Williams]

This is international waters which China is trying to STEAL.
It would be like you being upset China flew a plane near Peru.

[reformedliberal]

...Chinese bombers flying around our borders.
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You mean like the Russians do our in the Arctic?

[Zhang Fei]

[Not so cool.

I hope this isn’t true.

I don’t think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.

ML/NJ]

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How so? This is fairly normal. You don’t conduct wartime bombing raids against your adversaries without peacetime drills to test their responses and vacuum up signals traffic. This is a drill. We do it, and they do it.

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https://www.news.com.au/technology/us-reacts-to-chinese-bombers-practicing-bombing-runs-on-guam/news-story/da55b4bc29f64f5706e64ef1862573f1

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This is something we do routinely with the Russians. The Chinese military is growing up - so it’s something we’re beginning to do with them as well.

[nuconvert]

“I don’t think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.”

“the US and Japan do not recognize China’s claims over the area.”

This was to let China know that we’re paying attention, especially regarding Taiwan, at a time when it may seem like our eyes are ‘off the ball’ because of all that’s happening in our country right now.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I don't think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.

Which is the entire point. If there is war between the U.S. and China in the near future, one thing is certain, it will be fought in the Western Pacific, not the Eastern Pacific. It may be useful to remind them occasionally, in the hopes of avoiding any such war altogether. If we are not serious about confronting Chinese aggression, we should fold, close all our bases in the Western Pacific and hand Japan the keys.

[Alas Babylon!]

What about Russia?

Because they do it all the time, and have since the Soviet Union days.

[PIF]

I don’t think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.
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Of course its true - this stuff happens all the time. You are missing the point - China claims way beyond accepted international borders, even claims other countries waters and airspace. And the planes were far out at sea, not along China’s physical borders, but flying inside an imaginary and arbitrary line.

Russian planes overfly the US every year, by the way, as our planes do theirs.

[Colorado Doug]

China’s so called air defense identification zone is closer to Taiwan and Japan than it is to China. It’s nowhere even close to China’s borders. China is instead trying to encroach on literally everyone else’s space in the region. So, yeah, it’s totally cool that we do this.

[Mariner]

“I don’t think we would be pleased by Chinese bombers flying around our borders.”

They do not have that capability/range.

But the Russians do it all the time.

What is the issue?

[Little Ray]

The Russians used to Fly Tu-95 Bears into our air defense zones.