The Laws of ADIZ

After the confrontation and defiance by the US against China’s ADIZ, the American State Department has issued a directive advising all American commercial flights to heed the rules of the air zone. It also quickly clarified that this did not amount to a recognition of the ADIZ and ‘Our expectation of operations by US carriers…does not indicate US government acceptance of China’s requirements for operating in the newly declared ADIZ.’

This may not be an exceptional ruling applicable only to Americans or is it an international law governing ADIZ, but it could set the norms for every country to follow. It simply said that commercial flights have to follow but military flights don’t have to. Or maybe it is saying only American military flights can fly into other countries ADIZ and need not follow their rules. This is the privilege of the Empire or the gangster, depending on how one looks at it.

Is this American Imperial decree applicable on a reciprocal basis, that other countries’ military aircraft can also fly into American ADIZ without heeding their rules? At the moment not many countries can fly their military aircraft into American ADIZs or have no reasons to do so. Perhaps the Russians and the Chinese may want to put this to a test, that it applies both ways, you can come and go like the Americans.

Would the Americans scramble their fighters to intercept the visitors and wave to say hello, or would they take offensive measures like shooting them down? If the Americans were to shoot down alien aircraft in their ADIZs, then Russia and China could do the same. The rules have to be equitable and apply to all nations that are seen as equals in the UN Charter, big or small. No?

But the Empire may have its own laws that are above the UN Charter. In that case, China would have to decide if it is able to take down American military aircraft in its ADIZ and risk an open war with the Empire. If it is not able to, it would have to buy for more time before the playing field is level.

The Empire will have the last word. What is right and free to do for the Empire is not right and free to do for those that are enemies of the Empire. When would the Russians and Chinese put this Empire decree to a litmus test?