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2012-03-01 Southeast Asia

Improvised bomb discovered at Philippine airport

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Posted by ryuge 2012-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ION MABUHAY, CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > MANILA DISPUTES BEIJING'S SOUTH CHINA SEAS CLAIM, asserting its right to ask or invite foreign companies to search for Oil-Gas, etc. in SCS areas extending from the PHIL's West Coasts to Phil-claimed island groups.

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* WORLD MIL FORUM > CHINESE EXPERTS: PHILIPPINES' INTERNAL OR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS IS LEADING IT TO PICK ON CHINA IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS DISPUTES. PHILIPPINES HAS MASSIVE CORRUPTION, COMMUNIST, ETHNIC + MUSLIM GUERILLAS IN ARMED STRUGGLES FOR RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY. NEW EX-US "HAMILTON" CLASS COASTAL WARSHIPS IS NOT ENOUGH TO STOP CHINA FROM ASSERTING ITS RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA OR HUMILIATING THE PHILIPPINES IN WAR.

* Also from WMF > CHINA DEMANDS JAPAN IMMEDIATELY CEASE UNILATERAL SURVEY IN EAST CHINA SEA. REJECTION BY JAPAN OF LINES OF DEMARCATION + PROPOSED JOINT SINO-JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST CHINA SEA.

* SAME > TOKYO'S ISHIHARA: JAPAN MAY BECOME A "SIXTH STAR" IN CHINA'S NATIONAL FLAG. JAPAN IN TIME TO BECOME A COLONY EITHER OF THE US OR CHINA UNLESS IT TAKES STEPS TO MILPOL PROTECT ITSELF. MAINSTREAM JAPANESE TORN BETWEEN UNHAPPINESS OVER ON-GOING, POST-WW2 US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY, WHILE ALSO NOT WANTING TO CHANGE TREATY BUT DESIRING FOR THE WORLD TO SEE POST-COLD WAR JAPAN AS A LEGITIMATE MAJOR/GREAT POWER.

ME > Ishihara is once again trying hard to infer that JAPAN NEEDS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Can't really blame ole' Ishi given ...

* RUSSIAN MILBLOGGERS/POSTERS = opine that RUSSIA SHOULD RE-OCCUPY HOKKAIDO VEE TERMS OF JAPAN'S SURRENDER TREATY, iff Nippon keeps bothering or foolishly dares to go to war wid Russia oer the South Kuriles; or iff CHINA REGAINS RIGHTS TO OKINAWA = FORMER RYUKYU VASSAL KINGDOM, i.e. when it is clear that Japan can't or won't any longer defend Japanese territory and its ally the US didn't stop it.

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FYI GUAMPDN FORUMS > JAPAN NEVER RECOVERED FROM [Tohoku/Fukushima]EARTHQUAKE.

Like Charlie Sheen, Nippon is [not] winning???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-03-01 01:11|| 2012-03-01 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 CHINESE EXPERTS: PHILIPPINES' INTERNAL OR DOMESTIC PROBLEMS IS LEADING IT TO PICK ON CHINA

The poor darlings. So they see themselves as the big, dumb lug bullied by smaller, nimbler opponents? Interesting, that.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-03-01 11:18|| 2012-03-01 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ME > Ishihara is once again trying hard to infer that JAPAN NEEDS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

More fallout (heh) from the fear that the US is no longer providing regional security guarantees.

Posted by SteveS 2012-03-01 15:54|| 2012-03-01 15:54|| Front Page Top

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