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2016-03-30 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan extends military reach in disputed East China Sea

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Posted by Steve White 2016-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 CHINA still feeling the squeeze ...

* RELATED JAPAN TIMES > GSDF BRING YONAGUNI RADAR STATION ONLINE TO KEEP CLOSE EYE ON CHINA.

* BUSINESS INSIDER > TENSIONS ARE MOUNTING BETWEEN RUSSIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, TOPIX [Japan Times] > CHINA COAST GUARD VESSELS ESCORT FISHING BOAT FLOTILLA [100 Chinese FBS] INTO MALAYSIAN WATERS.

'Tis "unprecedented".

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* GLOBAL TIMES > YONAGUNI MILITARIZATION EXPOSES TOKYO'S AGGRESSION AGZ CHINA.

* WORLD NEWS > [Guardian.UK] CHINA ACCUSES JAPAN OF ENDANGERING PEACE IN THE PACIFIC WID NEW LAW [allowing JSDF on overseas combat missions].

Again, IMO no way in hehell that OWG Co-Superpower China will accept or tolerate any challenge to its leadership of East Asia-WESTPAC + any pertinent OWG Global Fed Union(s) arising in same. JAPAN MUST ACCEPT VASSALAGE TO CHINA - YOU KNOW, "BILATERAL PARTNERSHIP-N-COOP"- OR JAPAN WILL BE ATTACKED [Nuked].

* FOCUS TAIWAN > TAIWAN, CHINA LACK CONDITIONS FOR UNIFICATION: PRESIDENT MA.

"Peaceful" unification/reunification may be MOOT the ways things are deteriorating from the SCS to the ECS.

* CHINA DAILY > JAPAN MOVES THREATENS REGIONAL PEACE + STABILITY.

* NDTV > CHINA WARNS TAIWAN OVER NEW LAW GOVERNING CROSS-STARITS RELATIONS.

* SAME > [AFP] NEW HONG KONG INDEPENDENCE PARTY SLAMMED BY CHINESE MEDIAS.

Risk to Beijing's desired TRI-CITY FTA-FTZ SUPER-PLEX???

* JAPAN TIMES > CHINA SHOULD ACT, OR PYONGYANG [Nuclear? War?] THREATS WILL FORCE SECURITY ACTIONS BEIJING WON'T LIKE: DIPLOMAT.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Express.UK] NUCLEAR WAR WARNING: OBAMA VOWS TO TACKLE NORTH KOREA THREAT AMID [NOKOR-triggered] WORLD WAR FEARS.

Again, iff Pudgy = Kim Regime-Govt/NOKOR believe that Chinese takeover or annexation of NOKOR is un-avoidable or un-preventable, IMO HE WILL FIND A WAY TO UNILATERALY START A MAJOR US-CHINA WAR IN A DESPERATE MOVE TO SAVE NOKOR FROM BEIJING'S CONTROL.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN "SANKEI SHIMBUN" MEDIA QUOTES NORTH KOREA WORKER'S PARTY PAPER AS CALLING TO RESIST CHINA'S SUPPORT OF ANTI-NOKOR UN SANCTIONS WITH A "NUCLEAR STORM".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-30 03:28|| 2016-03-30 03:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, what he said!

Posted by Muggsy Hiliter3778 2016-03-30 12:00|| 2016-03-30 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe's second to last stanza is interesting. Methinks he's onto something.

(Joe's posts are like reading The Iliad or The Epic of Gilgamesh)

Posted by JHH 2016-03-30 14:59|| 2016-03-30 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Tristant Shandy

Posted by Shipman 2016-03-30 15:35|| 2016-03-30 15:35|| Front Page Top

#5 While the South China Sea claim is rather historically fictitious, the claim on a vassal state that now constitutes a lot of Norkland is far more valid.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-30 15:59|| 2016-03-30 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 More this sunny Guam Thursday AM ...

* WORLD NEWS > [Inquisitr] CHINA, VIETNAM, + PHILIPPINES TURN TO UNMANNED FLIGHTS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA "MEXICAN STANDOFF".

"Mexican standoffs" USUALLY DON'T END WELL = PEACEFULLY.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA'S ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA MAY POSE THREAT TO MAJOR TRADE ROUTE: US - PTI.

* REUTERS > US SAYS IT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE SOUTH CHINA SEA EXCLSUION ZONE.

* RELATED BUSINESS INSIDER > US: NO, CHINA, WE WON'T RECOGNIZE ALL THE RED LINES YOU'VE DRAWN ALL OVER THE SOUTH CHINA SEA [or in East China Sea = ADIZ as well].

US Deputy SecDef Robert Work.

* DEFENSE NEWS > PHILIPPINES MULLS SUBMARINES [new Sub Force] AS CHINA ROW SIMMERS: AQUINO.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [UPI = Yonhap] THAAD DEPLOYMENT ON KOREAN PENINSULA NECESSARY, US OFFICIAL SAYS.

US Deputy SecStae Antony Blinken.

* KUAM NEWS BLOG > GUAM COULD HAVE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE FOR AMPHIBIOUS FROCES [Multi-National, Training].

Have to wonder how that is gonna work out iff the US = USDOD transfers AAFB's Bombers + Drones, etc. to AUSTRALIA in order to prevent their destruction from China's + NOKOR'S LRBMS???

Iff moved to Australia, instead of being divided WestPac-vs-EastPac it will be ROUGH = IMPERFECT NORTHPAC-VS-SOUTHPAC wid the new US defense arc/line running from Australia to Hawaii-Alaska-West Coast???

CHINA TO STILL GET ITS DESIRED 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC [East Asia-WESTPAC] BY DEFAULT, SAVE MORE RUNNING NORTH-VS-SOUTH???

Lastly, will a POTUS Trump pull out US Milfors from SOKOR + JAPAN as threatened iff the latter refuse to pay for US Protection???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-30 23:19|| 2016-03-30 23:19|| Front Page Top

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