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2012-08-23 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Sherry 2012-08-23 15:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Don't fergit SAKHALIN.

A good Artic as usual from NRO, but it denotes little or nothing that wasn't already known, realized, or considered times before.

Many Chinese Politicos, Pert Analysts or Academics, + ordinary Bloggers-Netters want China = Beijing to start acting like the
"inevitable", "post-US" Global Superpower it wants to be. These as well as many of their Asian regional counterparts believe that their Nations-States cannot expand their power + influence to newfound heights unless these historical disputes are settled once and for all.

In NE Asia, China desires unfettered or unchallenged access into WESTPAC vee Taiwan + Okinawa-PHIL Straits - it wants Okinawa per se and the Daoyus [Japan = Senkakus] to guard the strategic approaches to its future PLA Milbases on Taiwan. This is why China supporst both Okinawa separatism or local autonomy from Tokyo, in in alternate major Chinese-specific Base, Trade rights to a Japanese-controlled Okinawa. HOWEVER, AT THE MOMENT CHINA'S EFFORTS TO FORMALLY REUNIFY WID TAIWAN HAS STALLED, WHILE NE ASIA RIVAL JAPAN IS STEADFASTLY REFUSING TO GIVE UP ITS SOVEREIGNTY TO OKINAWA AND THE CHINESE-CLAIMED SENKAKUS. Not unlike many other ambitious Nations-States or Societies in the past - East or West, North or South - China wants its perceived "Manifest Destiny" ASAP AMAP ALAP, + is NOT willing to wait several or many decades or centuries to do so.

The above + the establishment of US-led Missle Shields throughout East Asia has induced ambitious China to move away from its historical "soft power/diplomacy" startegy to one that is PLA-led, + more aggressive iff not MilPOl belligerent.

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* WORLD NEWS > SERIOUS ISLAND NEGOTIATIONS LONG OVERDUE.

[KELLY "THE HELL YOU SAY" BUNDY here].

* SAME > ISLAND DISPUTE SHOW JAPANESE WARY OF CHINESE TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS.

* SAME > JAPAN MUST BOOST JCG [Japan Coast Guard]POWER TO CONTROL SENKAKU ISLANDS, to includ JCG coordination wid Police.

* REAL CLEAR POLITICS > THE SINO-JAPANESE NAVAL WAR OF 2012. As per Mil Assets = capabilities in NON-NUCLEAR CONVENTIONAL WAR, JAPAN is more likely to prevail militarily although CHINA is expected to make it a hard fight.

* SAME > SOUTH KOREA REJECTS JAPAN PROPOSAL TO HAVE ICJ RESOLVE DISPUTE OVER [Dokdo]ISLANDS.

* SAME > THUCYDIDE'S TRAP HAS BEEN SPRUNG IN THE PACIFIC.

* CHINA POST > [Commentary] TO SETTLE A DISPUTE, ONE MUST FIRST ADMIT IT EXISTS.

Yuuuuppp - 'tis an Oldie, but definitely a Mustie.

Also from CHINA POST + JAPAN UNWAVERING IN FACE OF CHINESE PROTESTS.

* CHINA DAILY > RUSSIA, CHINA SAY WE ARE UNITED IN OUR VIEW OF WESTERN AGGRESSION. Deliberate or intentional bypassing [unilateral] of the UN role by the US-NATO/EU is "impermissable".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-08-24 00:09|| 2012-08-24 00:09|| Front Page Top

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