The media’s obsession with Chinese intrusions into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), and over the so-called centerline, is also misleading and unhelpful. Both control measures were designed for a bygone era and never elicited PRC buy-in in any case. Taiwan’s Cold War–era ADIZ encompasses roughly four hundred nautical miles of China’s coastline, nearly half the distance from the Shandong peninsula to Hainan Island.
