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2016-02-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Vietnam protests China missile deployment, Australia, NZ urge restraint

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 They want or demand that Beijing cease-n-desist, but Beijing won't.

ION this mostly sunny Guam Monday AM ...

* EX-MVARIETY NKA GUAM DAILY POST > PARACELS BUILDUP A POINTER TO CHINA'S BROADER SOUTH CHINA SEA AMBITION.

As China does in the Paracels [China = Xisha Islands], it may likely do also per the Spratly's [China = Nansha Islands].

* RELATED JAPAN TIMES > BEIJING PARACEL MILITARY BUILDUP SEEN AS PRECURSOR TO SPRATLY AMBITION.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA PARACELS BUILDUP MAY BE REPLICATED ON SPRATLYS: SECURITY EXPERTS.

* WORLD NEWS > [Indonesia News] US ACCUSES CHINA OF ABUSING MIGHT, WILL TEST CHINA ON DISPUTED ISLANDS.

Personally, I'm more interested in how the US will "test" China vee Chinese "aggressiveness" = belligerency? vee TAIWAN + EAST CHINA SEA.

* Also from REUTERS > THE NEXT WORLD WAR WILL BE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. ASK THUCYDIDES ...

Perhaps not - lest we fegit, THE US = OBAMA ADMIN IS ALREADY BEING CRITICIZED FOR INDIRECTLY OR COVERTLY RECOGIZING CHINA'S CLAIMS BY KEEPING USN WARSHIPS OUTSIDE OF THE ISLANDS' 12-MILE NM LIMITS. As a copnsequence, China has begun aggressively = belligerently? asserting its rights on TAIWAN + AGZ JAPAN in the East China Sea.

Iff anything, + given the Year 2020 NLT 2025 timeframe, where China ideally would like to see the USDOD out of East Asia-WESTPAC = 1/2 of the Pacific ASAP AMAP ALAP, IMO UNLESS THE US SURRENDERS OR CONCEDES VERY QUICKLY ANY WAR IN THE SCS WILL MORE LIKELY THAN NOT BE ONE OF SEVERAL FRONTS OR THEATERS THAT CHINA + PLA WILL FIGHT AT ROUGHLY ONE TIME AGZ US REGIONAL ALLIES + ULTIMATELY AGZ THE US ITSELF.

China has a number of US Regional Allies it needs to put down at roughly the same time - IMO it is nonsensical for China to wage war in the SCS-N-Only-The-SCS but not agz Taiwan andor in the ECS agz its historical + contemporary East Asia rival JAPAN [+ SOKOR], all the while risking that US Regional Allies may become militarily stronger vee China, poten even NUCLEAR, while China per se awaits the outcome of SCS war.

MORESO ALSO GIVEN ...

* NATIONAL INTEREST > WHY NOT A SOUTH KOREAN NUKE?

KJU = Pudgy desires the "status quo" in NE Asia + on the Korean Peninsula to be quickly + forcibly changed ASAP AMAP ALAP n favor of ANTI-CHINA, DE FACTO INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION.

IFF A US-CHINA WAR BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT POST-COLLAPSE, DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER OF NOKOR FOR ANY REASON, IN KJU'S MIND SO BE IT - HE'LL START THE WAR HIMSELF.

* BREAKING DEFNSE > FEW CHOICES FOR THE US AS CHINA MILITARIZES THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-21 23:29|| 2016-02-21 23:29|| Front Page Top

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