The Chinese Defense Posture Is Beginning To Look Like America`s

President Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping in the Oval Office. Pete Souza, White House

Imitation Is the Securest Form of Flattery -- Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy

Why China's powerful, new national defense posture looks so much like America's.

A high-ranking Chinese diplomat once compared China and the United States to neighbors. If China's house keeps growing, he said, the United States might have to move. On Nov. 23, China's Ministry of Defense released a map showing part of its Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a contested area in the East China Sea that includes the Diaoyu -- an island chain which Japan administers and calls the Senkakus -- in which Beijing is stating a right to monitor; and possibly take military action against aircraft who enter. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called China's announcement "dangerous." The United States responded more directly: on Nov. 25, it flew two U.S. B-52 bombers over the Senkaku Island chain, without informing Beijing.

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My Comment: There are a number of similarities. But as I had mentioned in a previous post, the Chinese will develop a uniquely "Chinese national security model", but if they were to copy another country`s model on defense/intelligence/national security .... it would be the Americans.