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2013-05-05 India-Pakistan

China-India face-off ends as armies withdraw from Ladakh

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Posted by john frum 2013-05-05 11:42|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Prolly best to take wid a grain of salt for now, as MIlBloggers claim Net sources are only quoting from report from the Press Trust of India [PTI], while the latter per se is repor that a "fourth flag" meeting between India + China has once again failed???

FYI TOPIX > CHNESE TROOPS HAD PROBED INDIAN ARMY POSTS AT THREE POINTS/PLACES IN LADAKH DBO SECTOR, before its final incursion.

Anyhoo,

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Pravda] CHINA THREATENS TO END MILITARY ROLE OF USA IN ASIA.

> CHINA'S RIFT WID JAPAN IS OPEN CHALLENGE TO IS - THE JAPAN TIMES.
> [Defense News] CHINA-JAPAN ISLAND DISPUTE COULD BECOME FLASHPOINT. Sino-Japan dispute the REAL PROBLEM, N-O-T KIM JONG-UN = NORTH KOREA.
> [Defense News] JAPAN-CHINA ISLAND SPAT [Yonaguni] THREATENS JGSDF DEPLOYMENT + MUCH MORE.
> MYANMAR ANOTHER ARENA OF COMPETITION OR BATTLEFIELD BETWEEN US + CHINA?

Truth be told, IMO Yonaguni is prolly a bigger realistic threat to the PLA than Japan's control of the China-claimed Senkakus/Daoyus. I'm pretty sure the PLA has Yonaguni in their high-priority, To-Be-Attacked-First/ASAP target lists like Taiwan.

* TOPIX > [HuffPo] WE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THE REAL TICKING TIME BOMB ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA.
ROK + DPRK steady econ deterioration leading to possible chaos + worse?

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > NEW GALLUP POLL: ONLY ONE-HALF OF AMERICANS THINK THE US IS STILL #1 MILITARILY. Steady decline in mainstream belief since Summer 2009.

VERSUS

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SINGH TO CHINA: PULL OUT YOUR TROOPS [Ladakh] OR I WILL SPEND ONE MORE NIGHT [or maybe TWO] IN JAPAN - CHOOSE! | [Times of India] SINGH EXTENDS JAPAN TRIP, SENDS STRONG MESSAGE TO CHINA.

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [AJW Asahi Shimbun] CONTEMPT FOR CHINA LEADS TO CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGZ [indigenous] OKINAWANS, by mainland + island-based Non-Okinawan Japanese, + Okinawan-vs-Okinawan inter-indigenous criticisms.

Anti-Nippon, Pro-China Left-winger? treason + sedition in the ranks???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN TRIED TO BUY ISLANDS [Northern Territories = South Kuriles]BEFORE SOVIET COLLAPSE: OZAWA, but Gorbachev turned the offer down.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "SANKEI SHIMBUN" JAPANESE MEDIA: JAPAN PM ABE WARNS BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN JAPAN + CHINA, EAST ASIAN NATIONS COULD BE COMPLETELY BROKEN DOWN [collapsed] BY 2015.

* SAME > NORTH KOREAN AIR FORCE CHIEF THREATENS ICBM, NUCLEAR "SUICIDE/KAMIKAZE" ATTACKS AGZ THE US IFF NORTH KOREA IS ATTACKED.

* WORLD NEWS > XI'S WAR DRUMS | CHINA LEADER'S PLOY MORE THAN JUST NAVAL GRAZING | CHINA'S XI JINPENG IS SPOILING FOR A FIGHT, BUT WID WHOM?
CAN CHINA ACTUALLY FIGHT?

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