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China-Japan-Koreas
Impasse Over China's Island-Building Shows No Sign Of Easing
2015-05-31
SINGAPORE -- China vigorously defended its South China Sea land reclamation projects in the face of persistent criticism from U.S. leaders at an international security summit Saturday as the standoff in the Asia-Pacific region shows few signs of abating.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and other officials sharply condemned the artificial island-building, but provided no details on what steps the U.S. may take to press China into diplomatic talks. Carter said China's land reclamation was out of step with international rules,
Which ones?
and that turning underwater land into airfields would not expand its sovereignty.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Looks like INDIA + VIETNAM are being drawn in ...

* WORLD NEWS > [Times of India] NO OIL HUNT IN SOUTH CHINA SEA WIDOUT [Beijing = China's] NOD [approval = consent]: BEIJING WARNS DELHI.

India has already times warned China that it will not accept or tolerate any interference to its SCS trade and oil exploration ventures wid Vietnam.

* SAME > [BigNewsNetwork] CHINA, VIETNAM CAN PROPERLY HANDLE SOUTH CHINA SEA ISSUE: SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL.

Vietnam-vs-Chinese-Lighthouses to be built on Vietnam-claimed Nanshas.

* SAME > NORTH KOREA STILL TOP US THREAT IN PACIFIC DESPITE SOUTH CHINA SEA ISSUE: US NAVAL OFFICIAL, as per KJU = Pudgy's seeming UNPREDICTABILITY as NOKOR Leader.

US PACOM Chief ADM. Harry Harris, Jr.

NOKOR INTERVENTION ALL BUT ABSOLUT GUARANTEES JAPAN + POTEN RUSSIAN INTERVENTION.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > SOUTH CHINA SEA CRISIS: EXPERTS BELIEVE NORTH KOREA WILL [Militarily] INTERVENE, iff US-China shooting war occurs.

Again, IMO NOKOR desires Reunification wid SOKOR ASAP AMAP hence has a stake in changing the "post-Korean War 1", Cold War "status quo" in NE Asia = Korean Peninsula.

CHINA's domination of the NOKOR econ is already so huge that "time is of the essence" for Pyongyang, BY ANY EACH + ALL MEANS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE DE FACTO INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-05-31 23:12  

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