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2014-01-04 China-Japan-Koreas

Is World War Three about to start... by accident?

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I'm still waiting to see what kind of PERMANENT pro-peace compromise or agreement POTUS Bammer, SecState Jaawhn, + Caroline will come up to prevent China-Japan war.

Again, there is no sign that China is willing to give up, delay, andor amend its "post-US" agenda.

OTOH there's We're-supposed-to-be-the-World's-first-Islamic-Superpower-not-Iran Pakistan ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > ALTAF THREATENS SEPARATE PROVINCE [ + ultimately a separate sovereign Country] FOR URDU-SPEAKING SINDHIS.

FYI Regional SIKHS are demanding more Political-Legal Rights, or in altern their own separate country.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-04 00:47|| 2014-01-04 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Speaking of Pudgy ...

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "CHOSUN ILBO" KOREAN MEDIAS: NORTH KOREAN LEADCER KIM JONG-UN MAY HAVE A HEALTH PROBLEM AS HE BREATHES ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS.

versus

* SAME > "SANKEI SHIMBUN" MEDIA: JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCES [JASDF]SETTING UP A AIR TACTICAL STUDY GROUP TO RESEARCH AND IMPROVE POSSIBLE DEFENSE METHODS IN CASE OF LR AIR, MISSLE ATTACK FROM NORTH KOREA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-01-04 01:00|| 2014-01-04 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 it ain't the islands... It's the anchor that you can draw a large circle around of territorial water... under which might be a hell of a lot of oil and gas.

Posted by 3dc 2014-01-04 06:45|| 2014-01-04 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 A war would require a C-in-C with - shall we say - Churchillian resolve. So I ain't worried.

Posted by Bobby 2014-01-04 09:52|| 2014-01-04 09:52|| Front Page Top

It's not China or Japan I'm concerned about.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 10:01|| 2014-01-04 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 You mean, all this time... you've been a duck?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-01-04 10:13|| 2014-01-04 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 China is a tough, assertive, immature nation in a hurry; the United States is seen in Beijing as a weakly led, declining military power that is vulnerable to pressure

Kinda says it all. IOW: weakness invites aggression. Obummer squanders our money on corporate bailouts, crony capitalism, a fool's errand in Afghanistan and healthcare for derelicts while the Chinese build up their military and threaten their neighbors.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-01-04 11:43|| 2014-01-04 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 immature nation

Hah?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-01-04 13:19|| 2014-01-04 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Grom,

Well....one could make the argument that China wasn't a truly unified nation until Mao took over. You had some combinations of provinces that were stronger and more unified than others but even under the Emperors, control could be a dodgy thing the farther you got from the Forbidden City. National control at the level China needs wasn't possible until the advent of modern communications technologies.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-01-04 14:17|| 2014-01-04 14:17|| Front Page Top

#10 National control at the level China needs wasn't possible until the advent of modern communications technologies......

...and Nixon/Kissinger

Posted by Besoeker 2014-01-04 14:24|| 2014-01-04 14:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Mao wanted to erase China's past, and they still have posters of him everywhere.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-01-04 14:40|| 2014-01-04 14:40|| Front Page Top

#12 If a swan can trumpet, can't a duck type?

and #3

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-04 15:52|| 2014-01-04 15:52|| Front Page Top

#13 Watch it happen over failure to re-pay the rescue of the greendork cruiselines.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-01-04 16:51|| 2014-01-04 16:51|| Front Page Top

#14 World War III started when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed. You figure out the opposition...Iran, Syria, Pakistan, China, North Korea...we've been fighting WW III for almost 30 years already.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-01-04 19:05|| 2014-01-04 19:05|| Front Page Top

#15 ...ah, storm a sovereign embassy usually was considered the initiation of hostiles and inviting military consequences (see Peking, 1900).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-01-04 19:35|| 2014-01-04 19:35|| Front Page Top

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