Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Thursday concurred with the warning of a ranking United States military official saying the air defense identification zone planned by China in the South China Sea “goes against rules-based order.” “Yes, I agree. First, an ADIZ by China over the entire South China Sea would arrogate unto itself a vast sea considered to be a global commons that has been opened for millennia to all for navigation and fishing,” Lorenzana said in a media statement. US Pacific Air Forces commander, Gen. Charles Brown earlier said such a move from Beijing would impact not only the United States but all nations in the region.

Lorenzana says China’s planned ADIZ on WPS ‘illegal’. (2020, June 26). Manila Standard, p. A3.