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2016-02-26 China-Japan-Koreas

What Is THAAD, What Does It Do, and Why Is China Mad About It?

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 China's support for the norks has consequences. You don't like those consequences? Then change the behavior.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-26 09:26|| 2016-02-26 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe China's war plans call for simultaneous hits on both the ROK and USA. A THAAD deployment in the ROK would put a crimp in that plan.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-26 09:29|| 2016-02-26 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Soviet's didn't like it back in the 80's either. Good thing it's not up to them.

Posted by Iblis 2016-02-26 09:41|| 2016-02-26 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps more bluntly, as WORLD MILITARY FORUM + NATIONAL DEFENCE UNIVERITY PROFESSOR-EXPERT ON US-ASIAN AFFAIRS, the deployment of THAAD + advanced warplanes to SOKOR + JAPAN endangers China's new ADIZ in the East China Sea, as well as possible PLA MilPlans for the [forced = military] recovery of TAIWAN.

MAINLAND CHINA = BEIJING will be all but forced to resort to PREEMPTIVE MIL STRIKES, poten including TacNuke andor Limited Strategic Nuke Exchange = NucStrikes agz US-Allies.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-26 20:46|| 2016-02-26 20:46|| Front Page Top

#5 No such thing as a preemptive nuclear strike. That retaliation, it is a coming.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-26 20:50|| 2016-02-26 20:50|| Front Page Top

#6 New this Guam AM ...

* USNI.ORG > PACOM CHIEF HARRIS: US WILL IGNORE ANY "DESTABILIZING" CHINESE SOUTH CHINA SEA AIR DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION ZONE [ADIZ].

USPACOM Chief USN ADM. Harry Harris.

* REUTERS > US [Obama WH] URGES CHINA TO EXTEND PLEDGE OF NON-MILITARIZATION TO ALL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* WORLD NEWS > [Taipei Times] CHINA SECURING "DE FACTO" [Sea] CONTROL OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA: US NAVY ADMIRAL [USPACOM Chief Harris].

Not just informal, "effective" sea control, but "de facto" sea control???

* RELATED MANILA TIMES > CHINA TAKING DE FACTO SEA CONTROL, of the SCS.

* SAME > [SCS Missle, Radar] DEFENCES REASONABLE, NECESSARY [agz US "Militarization" of SCS + "Return to Asia"]- BEIJING.

WORLD NEWS > [SMH] CHINA SAYS IT "REALLY NEEDS" SOUTH CHINA SEA DEFENCES IN FEAR OF US.

Absolutely prositively categorically undeniably ...rly Reely Rly RLY REALLY R-E-A-L-L-Y NEEDS THE DEFENCES AGZ THE US.

* YAHOO NEWS > [CNS News] PACIFIC COMMANDER [ADM. Harris]: CHINA BUILDING OPERATIONAL, TACTICAL CONTROL OF MAJOR US TRADE ROUTE.

IIRC RELATED BIGNEWSNETWORK > PACOM CHIEF HARRIS: CHINA MISSLES DEPLOYMENT TO SOUTH CHINA SEA A THREAT TO GLOBAL COMMERCE.

* TOPIX > [Reddiff] ASIA WILL BE DIVIDED IFF INDIA JOINS [US-led] SOUTH CHINA SEA PATROLLING: CHINESE MEDIAS.

versus

* TOPIX > [Washington Times] CHINA GRUDGIBNGLY ACCEPTS [Seoul = ROK-approved] US MISSLE SHIELD DEPLOYMENT TO SOUTH KOREA.

Apparently, unlike the US State of HAWAII in EASTPAC Mainland China = CPC/CCP Beijing still recognizes ROK-SOKOR State sovereignty???

* CHINAMIL aka PLA DAILY ONLINE [PDOL] > [Xinhua] CHINA SAYS US THAAD DEPLOYMENT TO SOUTH KOREA UNDERMINES GLOBAL STABILITY.

'Tis a "game-changer" to the NE Asia + Inter-Korean "staus quo".

FYI USA = reopor may formally request return of "sole" or sovereign control of its former Clark + Subic MilBases iff China proceeds to deploy ANTI-NAVAL = LR ASBMS TO DISPUTED SCS ISLANDS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-26 23:09|| 2016-02-26 23:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Missiles + Theater Anti-missiles means that the Chinese would need *many* more missiles for a "first strike kill" on the US/Japanese/SKorea bases. If they can bluff us from deploying it saves them a lot of money and talk is cheap.

I recommend the Ralph D. Sawyer's translations of Ancient Chinese Military thought to give an idea on their thought processes.

Posted by magpie 2016-02-26 23:37|| 2016-02-26 23:37|| Front Page Top

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