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2012-06-13 China-Japan-Koreas
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Posted by Steve White 2012-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 ULTERIOR = ALTERIOR? MOTIVES, above + beyond both countries' desire for Hard Currency???

Given ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US ROLE TO FADE [in Asia, World] WID CHINA AS CREDITOR: ECONOMIST.

Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute as well as the Center for Global Development.

* SAME > CHINA, JAPAN TENSIONS MAY RISE OVER ISLANDS [Japan Senkakus = Chinese Daoyus/Daoyutai].

ARTIC > Conservative Japanese Political-Activist Group holds Japan Coast Guard-protected "fishing derby" in disputed isles to demonstrate JAPANESE "SOVEREIGNTY" OER SAME.

* SAME > TIME IS ON CHINA'S SIDE IN [Daoyus = East China Sea] DISPUTES WID JAPAN: GLOBAL TIMES.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > PLAN TO BUY DAOYU ISLANDS A FARCE.

* SAME > "THE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS ARE OVER - CHINA HAS WON" | [Time.com] US TAKES A PASS - FOR NOW - ON CHINA SEA DISPUTE. AVOIDING A US-CHINA WAR.

ARTIC = US is saving its Powder = Mil Power, etc. to keep strategic sea lanes open.

* SAME > CHINESE CARRIER "VARYAG" [PLAN "Shileng"] MAY JOIN THE NORTH SEA FLEET, at the fleet's Qingdao base.

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [IDSA Report]INTERNAL PUSH IN JAPAN TO NATIONALIZE ISLANDS IN EAST CHINA SEA.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA CAN'T PROVIDE [sustained] LONG-DISTANCE SSBN PATROLS, outside of East China Sea, South China Sea coasts + littorals

* SAME > US PENTAGON CONQUERS SPACE WID ITS MYSTERIOUS SUPER-DRONE.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [IBNLive] WHY DOES AMERICA WANT A [USN, USAF?]BASE IN BANGLADESH? ( + WHY INDIA IS NOT AMUSED].

ARTIC = possib new US Base at Chittagong can provide effective air-mission support [Refueling, CAP] for USAF's Next-Generation-Bomber, or even for its curren fleet of B-2's, on LR strike missions into central China = anti-US LR ICBM Bases from GUAM ANDOR DIEGO GARCIA; DANGEROUS FOR INDIA + OTHER REGIONAL NATIONS AS CHINA WILL LIKELY MAKE UNILATER PRESUMPTION(S) OF ALLIANCE BWTN THEM + US AGZ CHINA, VEE BOMBER OVERFLIGHTS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-06-13 00:48||   2012-06-13 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 CDF POSTER = opined that the PHILIPPINES should become a formal part of China, or in lessor under China's sphere of influence, the latter comprised of CHINA-CONTROLLED OR DOMINATED TAIWAN, DAOYUS ISLANDS, + PERHAPS EVEN JAPAN ITSELF IN NE ASIA???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PHILIPPINE LEADER [Pres. Aquino] SEEKS US ASSURANCE ON DEFENCE, in case of military attack by China in SCS.

* SAME > CHINA ASSURESMILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA IN ANY SITUATION [Natural or Military].

* TOPIX > CHINA'S BROODING "DRAGONS" [five Govt. Maritime Agencies] COMPLICATE STANDOFFS AT SEA.

* SAME > US TO DEPLOY MORE ATTACK HELICOPTERS, MISSLE ASSETS [TND-BMD] IN SOUTH KOREA.

USFK also asking the USDOD + WASH for Recce Aircraft-Drones.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-06-13 01:12||   2012-06-13 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 What!?

Does don-ki moon know about this?
Posted by swksvolFF 2012-06-13 10:21||   2012-06-13 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Johnson! Stop the presses!!
Posted by tu3031 2012-06-13 19:13||   2012-06-13 19:13|| Front Page Top

#5 CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > RECENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON BY PINOY PRESIDENT [Aquino] DIDN'T SEEM TO GIVE HIM MUCH ASSURANCES | [Asia Times] MIXED SIGNALS IN US-PHILIPPINES BUILDUP.

DPK POSTER = as a Nuclear Weapons State, any US [military] help to the PHIL in SINO-PHIL SPAT could trigger China's unilateral = preemptive?use of 3.3-Megaton DF-3A IRBMS agz US, PHIL targets.

* SAME > ICG CONSIDERS POSSIBILITY OF MILITARY COUP IN BANGLADESH INCREASINGLY HIGH | INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP [ICG]: BANGLADESH - BACK TO THE FUTURE.

* SAME > AUSTRALIA WILL SOON BE ASIA | INDONESIA CAN INVADE AUSTRALIA - WHO LET THE MUPPETS OUT?

ARTIC = AUS relatively small population of 22.0Milyuhn Western/White people + 2.0Milyuhn foreigners may not be enough to stop a dedicated military invasion from Muslim Indonesia [worst-case scenario], let alone from Rising China.
AUS doesn't even have enough Army-Police forces to stop illegal foreign workers from sneaking in.

* WORLD NEWS > AQUINO WARNS OF MORE "BREWING CONFLICTS" BETWEEN PHILIPPINES + CHINA FOLLOWING SCARBOROUGH SHOAL STANDOFF.

* SAME > CHINA-PHILIPPINES "BANANA WAR" [economic/trade war] MAY JUST BE A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-06-13 23:19||   2012-06-13 23:19|| Front Page Top

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