Can China Enforce It`s Air Defense Zone?

KJ-2000 early-warning aircraft

Technological Progress Gave China Confidence To Declare ADIZ: Analysts -- South China Morning Post

Improvements in the People's Liberation Army's air surveillance and control systems helped give Beijing the confidence to create its air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over the East China Sea, military experts said.

China is the last major power in the region to set up such an identification zone, as effectively policing the area requires advanced coastal and airborne radar systems and the capability to track, identify and monitor numerous flying objects simultaneously.

For years, the PLA struggled to obtain such technologies and develop its own airborne early-warning systems. Western countries put an embargo on the sale to Beijing of the necessary equipment after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

Nearly a quarter of a century later, the country finally had the hardware and software to police its own ADIZ, said Xu Guangyu , a retired PLA general.

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Update: Analysis: Enforcing rules in air zone will stretch China's air force and navy -- Reuters

My Comment: Even if China does not have the technical ability to enforce it`s Air Defense Zone .... it will only be a matter of time before they can.