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2016-03-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan to supply Philippines with military equipment

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, JAPAN is repor also in negotiations wid Manila = PH Govt. to use PH-controlled bases for purposes of refueling + resupply of soon-to-be-visiting, training JMSDF naval vessels [warships].

* FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [National Interest.org] CHINA'S MILITARY BUILDUP IN THE PACIFIC COULD REQUIRE US [military] RESPONSE.

Review and amendment of current US Rebalance or Realignment of Forces in the Pacific.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ENTER THE RISING SUN: MANILA, TOKYO TO START TALKS ON LETTING JAPAN USE PHILIPPINE MILITARY BASES.

* YAHOO NEWS > [Next Big Future] US WOULD NEED MASSIVE MILITARY BASES IN THE PHILIPPINES TO ALTER SOUTH CHINA SEA EQUATION [agz Up-N-Coming China].

ALso works or goes the other way for China, as China needs LR ASBM Missle Bases + Other outside of the SCS per se in order to deter or defeat any US intervention forces coming in from WESTPAC + CENTPAC, i.e. Guam + Hawaii-West Coast.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RAND CORPORATION STUDY REVEALS THAT CHINA COULD DEVASTATE US BASES ON GUAM WITH LONG-RANGE DONGFENG MISSLE STRIKES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-01 01:52|| 2016-03-01 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It does seem as if we have most of our eggs in just a few baskets in the western Pacific -- Guam, Okinawa and Yokosuka.

Posted by Steve White 2016-03-01 07:59|| 2016-03-01 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, it's probably like giving [those who will be unnamed] equipment that is quickly unmaintained and abandoned at the drop of the hat for the same reasons of corruption and incompetence.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-01 08:30|| 2016-03-01 08:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Historical poetic irony at play here.

Posted by borgboy 2016-03-01 17:06|| 2016-03-01 17:06|| Front Page Top

#5 This sunny Post-Super-Tuesday Guam AM, aka Wednesday AM ...

* BREITBART > PLA GENERAL [Wang Jiaocheng]: WE[China-PLA] WILL USE FORCE TO PROTECT CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA | WORLD WAR 3: MILITARY WILL HANDLE THREATS TO CHINA'S SOVEREIGNTY IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* REUTERS > FILIPINO FISHERMEN SAY CHINESE BLOCKING ACCESS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA ATOLL [PH-claimed Jackson Atoll aka Quirino Shoal-Atoll off Palawan]: MEDIA.

RELATED THE DIPLOMAT > REPORT: CHINESE COAST GUARD VESSEL TAKES SPRATLY ISLAND FEATURE FROM PHILIPPINES.

Circa Five Chinese CG andor PLAN? armed ships seen at anchor in the atoll's lagoon.

PH BLOGGERS-NETTERS ARE GOING BALLISTIC, at forced loss to China/Beijing of 2nd PH island = sovereign PH territory.

* Also from REUTERS > PARACELS IS TOUGH NEW FRONT IN US BATTLE TO REIN IN CHINA'S SOUTH CHINA SEA AMBITIONS.

Whatever proactive Media, Diplmatically-correct wafflism or ambivalence the US perceives from China vee the Spratly island group likely WON'T BE SEEN by the US in China ala THE TOO-CLOSE-TO-PLA-BASES-ON-HAINAN PARACELS???

* THE WEKLY STANDARD > CHINA PUNCTURES OBAMA'S ASIA PIVOT WID SOUTH CHINA SEA PROVOCATIONS.

* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP = PLA Daily] THREE IN FOUR PERSONS ON WOODY ISLAND [in Paracels] IN DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA WILL BE MILITARY.

IOW, China is indirectly giving the US + its Regional Allies "the Finger/Bird/Eagle" + daring same to try to forcibly kick China out of the islands.

* BUSINESS INSIDER > [USDOD Chief] ASH CARTER: CHINA'S MILITARIZATION OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA WILL HAVE "SPECIFIC CONSEQUENCES", CHINA MUST NOT MILITARIZE THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.

China's "specific actions will have specific consequences".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-01 23:49|| 2016-03-01 23:49|| Front Page Top

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