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2012-09-10 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan infuriates China by agreeing to buy disputed isles

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Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-09-10 11:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 YOUR NAME HERE Infuriates China - it's the international version of the Dog Bites Man headline.

Posted by SteveS 2012-09-10 13:26|| 2012-09-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Japan has agreed to buy a group of islands disputed with China from their private owners,..

Yeah, anyone recall the Dutch buying land in the New World from prior claimants? Keeping it was another matter.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-09-10 15:17|| 2012-09-10 15:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Japanese SDFS have repor begun TXS/MILXS wid US Marines on the CNMI's Tinian island, while Washington + Tokyo are mulling allowing Japan to deploy JSDF Drones to AAFB.

China has linked the success or failure of its "post-US" "Manifest Destiny" as future World #1 = Global El Supremo to the PLAN + return of its sovereign control oer [US-controlled]TAIWAN.

MAHAN-ISM.

China controls only HAINAN in SCS, + vassal state DPRK aka North Korea.
> PLA is all but denied access by Russia to the Sea of Siberia-Okhostk-Kamchatka.
> US ally Japan has Okinawa + US Mil Presence, Yonaguni,Okinoroti, + now China-claimed Daoyus, wid new Mil Coop ventures wid the US in Guam-CNMI.
> PLA Milbases on HAINAN are surrounded by pro-US or Neutralist SE Asian nations, e.g. PHIL, Vietnam, Indonesia, + Aussies.

AND THEN COMETH INDIA ...

China recognizes that 1980's Japan was a major econ power, but NOT a [true] Superpower in the US or Soviet/USSR sense, WHICH IS WHAT CHINA DESIRES.

IN CHINA'S MIND, SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE OER IN EAST ASIA = "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" FOR CHINA TO ACHIEVE ITS MANIFEST DESTINY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-09-10 19:59|| 2012-09-10 19:59|| Front Page Top

#4 More ...

* CHINA-DEFENSE-MASHUP > CHINA'S SPACE WILL BE [tightly] SQUEEZED IFF JAPAN TAKES TIAOYUTAI ISLANDS.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [China Daily] WEN VOWS NO CONCESSION [not an inch] | BEIJING SLAMS TOKYO PLAN TO PURCHASE DIAYOU iSLANDS.

RELATED SAME > EXPERTS WARN JAPAN AGZ MAKING A WRONG MOVE, vee Nuke-armed China.

* SAME > POSTER THREAD: DIAYUTAI: CHINA'S
"GIBRALTAR"[too strategic despite lack or few mucho resources] OR "PILLAR OF HERCULES", to "brave new worlds" + China's desired superpower destiny/agendum???

* SAME > POSTER THREAD: CHINA SHOULD USE DIAOYUTAI ISLANDS AS MISSLE PRACTICE RANGE.

Conventional-only warheads???

* SAME > CHINA MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: JAPAN'S STANCE ON DISPUTED ISLANDS IS DENIAL OF ITS DEFEAT DURING WW2, THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL ORDER | STATEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Diaoyus have been Chinese territory since the Ming Dynasty era, + in any case was formally returned to China under the WW2 Cairo + Potsdam Declarations.

I could be wrong, but IIUC CHINA = claiming that the disputed Diayous were incorporated into TAIWAN, not its former Okinawa = Ryukyus vassal state???

* SAME > CHINA DECLARES TERRITORIAL BASELINE OF DIAYOUS ISLANDS, response to Japan's action.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > [People's Daily] ADVISE JAPAN THAT IT MUST RECOGNIZE THE SITUATION + PULL BACK BEFORE ITS TOO LATE, i.e. before the shooting starts btwn PLA + JSDFS [USA?].

* SAME > JAPANESE RIGHT-WING MEDIA CLAIMS CHINA PLANS TO ASSASSINATE TOKYO METRO GOVERNOR SHINTARO ISHIHARA OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS + PUBLIC IDEOLOGICAL STANCES. 15.0MILYUHN CHINESE RESIDENTS LIVE IN TOKYO, + COMPRISE A DOMESTIC COMMUNITY MUCH LARGER THAN RADICAL ANTI-CHINA ACTIVISTS OR NATIONALISTS.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM BLOGGER-POSTER - TELL JAPAN ITS INVASION OF DIAOYUTAI IS REVOCATION OF ITS WW2 SURRENDER TO ALLIED FORCES - IT MEANS WAR [wid China]!

Fuel + Prime all DF Missles.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US DEPLOYING HALF [1/2-plus] FORCES TO INDIAN OCEAN [+ South China Sea] TO TAKE ON CHINA: YECHURY. CPI-M Sitaran Yechury.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-09-10 22:30|| 2012-09-10 22:30|| Front Page Top

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