China carrying out more drills across East, South China Seas  A Chinese navy vessel fires its cannon during a naval drill outside While the scale of the current drills is bigger than in the past, it’s a coincidence the annual exercises are being held at the same time, Beijing News reported today, citing Zhang Junshe, a researcher at Navy Military Research Institute. President Xi Jinping has been expanding the reach of Nine-dash line China claims much of the South China Sea, which may be rich in energy and mineral deposits, under its “nine dash-line” map first published in 1947, which extends hundreds of miles south from China’s Hainan Island to equatorial waters off the coast of Borneo, taking in some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. In the East China Sea, With the current drills “what’s different from the past is that Rimpac drill In a rare sign of military cooperation with the two countries, China is participating along with the U.S. and Japan in the five-week-long Rim of the Pacific Exercise that runs through Aug. 1 in waters off Hawaii. The current Chinese military activity is having repercussions on the mainland. China Southern Airlines Co. said today that its flights in the eastern part of the country might experience large-scale delays because of “special activities.” Airlines last week were ordered to cut a quarter of their flights at a dozen airports, including two in Military and civil aviation authorities have taken steps to minimize the impact of the new drills, the ministry said in the statement. That order was issued a week after the People’s Liberation Army began three months of live-fire drills in six regional military commands, including the one that oversees Shanghai, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Some training sessions would be conducted under a “complex electromagnetic environment,” the report said. The Chinese military controls about 52 percent of the airspace in eastern |
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