Sentence examples for defence zone from inspiring English sources

China's problem is that it declared its defence zone unilaterally.

The US military has refused to recognise the air defence zone China declared last year.

It will also overlap with Japan's air defence zone, Jang said.

Tensions flared there after China's decision to declare an air defence zone in the region in late 2013.

See articleWar gamesTaiwan said it had scrambled fighter-jets to monitor Chinese military spy aircraft that entered the island's defence zone.

Last November China established an air defence zone over the islands, which overlaps with Tokyo's own, raising fears of a possible standoff.

The Chinese ADIZ overlaps with Japan's own air-defence zone (see map).

Foreign minister Julie Bishop is standing by her criticism of China's decision to impose an air-defence zone in the East China Sea without warning or consultation.

They point to American silence when China seized the Scarborough shoal from the Philippines in 2012; and to its advice to American airlines late last year to comply with China's air-defence zone over the Senkakus.

The inclusion in China's zone of a reef, known as Ieodo, claimed by both South Korea and China, has prompted South Korea to contemplate extending its own air-defence zone to cover it as well.

Bishop drew a sharp rebuke from China when she criticised its decision to impose the air-defence zone without warning or consultation, but she denies she overstepped the mark.