China claims right to air defense zone China will ignore a ruling from an international court that it has no historical rights to islands in the South China Sea. Beijing made no secret of its intention to carry on building up forces in the disputed region

Liu added that Beijing reserves the right to declare an Air Defense Identification Zone over the sea. “China has established an ADIZ over the East China Sea,” Liu told reporters on Wednesday. He said that China hopes other countries will not take the opportunity to threaten China and that “we hope….