Taiwan Reiterates PRC Jet Fighters Can't Enter Taiwan's ADIZ

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美国副总统拜登访问亚洲之际，台国安局长在立法院接受质询. VOA Chinese, Dec 4, 2013
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 131204/1803288.html("台湾国家安全局长蔡得胜 [在立法院接受质询] * * * 表示，台湾和美国政府的做法相当一致，在民航作业上配合，不过在军事上则都态度强硬。台湾政府的立场是，中国的军机不能进入台湾的防空识别区，同时区内的军事演训也不会停止")

My comment:
(a) I do not know. Sometimes I feel like the child in Emperor's New Clothes. Manythings Taiwan does, I just feel ridiculous. This is one. (Another is Taiwan's claimed economic exclusion zone (EEZ) is almost at the door of Batanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batanes
, where a shooting took place and Taiwanese fisherman was killed.)
(b) For years I tried in vain to find a map (official or unofficial) for Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Now Taiwan's Ministry of Defense (MOD) publicized one, which includes a large swath of southern China! (Maybe China prefers Taiwan to claim the WHOLE CHina, and would freak out if Taiwan's ADIZ excluded Chinese mainland.)

Here is the official map in a Dec 3, 2913 presentation by MOD.

台日陸韓防空識別區重疊示意圖
http://www.cna.com.tw/gpho/201312030010.aspx

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(2) Wang Shu-feng and Lilian Wu, 'One Degree' Change Behind Taipei Flight Information Zone Trouble. Central News Agency, Dec 2, 2013.
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201312020034.aspx
(Taiwan's FIR is one degree to the east of its ADIZ)

My comment:
(a) flight information region  飞航情报区
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_information_region
(FIR)
(b) I wondered, when I read it three days ago, what message the Ma administration was trying to send.