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| Chinese warship directs "fire-control" radar at Japan MSDF destroyer | |
| 2013-02-05 | |
| A Communist Chinese warship last week directed "fire-control" radar and lit up a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer in the East China Sea, where Japan and China are involved in a dispute over the ownership of a group of uninhabited islands, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Tuesday. As the radar activated was for targeting and the move could have set off an inadvertent but inevitable military clash, Japan lodged a protest with China in Tokyo and Beijing on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after Japan condemned China over the intrusion of two Chinese vessels into its territorial waters around the islands the previous day. The radar beaming, which a Japanese government source said had occurred in waters off the Japanese-administered, Chinese-claimed Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, is all but certain to further heighten tensions between the two countries.
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| Posted by:Whiger Wholuting3941 |
| #5 TOPIX > VARIOUS = [Daily Times.PK]CHINA-JAPAN SHOWDOWN LIKELY- S.P. SETH.. * Also from DAILY TIMES.PK > SOUTH KOREA LEADER [Myung Lee-Bak] SAYS NORTH MAY STAGE MULTIPLE NUCLEAR TESTS, espec to "maximize" its acqusition of vital Nuclear-Scientific knowledge despite International condemnation. VERSUS * DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Kyodo News] OKINAWA SECESSION [+ Okin-specific Armed Militancy-Terrorism] OVER US MILITARY PRESENCE, EX-MINISTER WARNS, to includ potens anti-Govt,US TerrOps launched agz Tokyo. Ex-Minister of Financial + Postal Services SHOZABURO JIMI. Return of the "JAPANESE RED ARMY" + JAPANESE COMMIE PARTY??? ADVANTAGE - CHINA + PLA. Again, China supports both Okinawa-specific sovereign independence from Tokyo, or in the alternate substantial Okinawa political, econ autonomy from Tokyo where China is allowed a significant Trade, PLA presence on Okinawa. FYI Mama Russia is repor anticipating being on the receiving end vee Tokyo of alleged malicious "JAPANESE PROPAGANDA" regarding Kuriles + Sino-Nippon dispute. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-05 23:55 |
| #4 See also RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [TBI] CHINESE WARSHIPS PREPARED TO FIRE ON THE JAPANESE NAVY TWICE. and * TOPIX > VARIOUS = [People'S Daily Online]CHINESE SHIPS CONTINUE PATROLLING DIAOYU ISLANDS' WATERS. IMO unless the Bammer = USA is truly prepared + willing to militarily intervene on the side of Japan, + despite risk of HIGH us CASUALTIES + worst-case Limited or Full-scale NucWar agz Nuke-armed mainland China, THE BAMMER = USA MAY WANT TO MULL TURNING A BLIND EYE TO ANY COVERT JAPANESE MANUFACTURE OF NUCWEAPONS FOR ITS OWN ANTI-CHINA DEFENSE. Rising China has the Manpower + the Nukes for high-intensity Conventional, Conventional-Nuke, + Nuclear Warfare, + any Nippon-destabilizing MOOTW - JAPAN [+ ROK] HAVE NO OVERT NUCBOMBS + NO DEDICATED LRBMS + NO STRATEGIC AIRPOWER TO DELIVER ANY. Perhaps more importantly, JAPAN's post-WW2 Constitution denies the JSDF any right to MILITARY PREEMPTION ANDOR UNILATERAL "FIRST-STRIKE". THE JSDF CAN FIGHT ONLY IFF ATTACKED - IT CANNOT LEGALLY ATTACK FIRST OR IN SURPRISE. NUKE-ARMED CHINA, HOWEVER, SUFFERS NO SUCH RESTRICTION SAVE BY INTERNAL GOVT. CHOICE WHICH CAN EASILY CHANGE VIA NORMAL LEADERSHIP CYCLES. OTOH USFJ + USFK + ASEAN do have a POTUS Bammer Admin which unfortunately many Amers proclaim NOT to trust to truly promote let alone defend or protect American or pro-US Allied interests??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-05 19:12 |
| #3 Be interesting to know what the MSDF ship did with regards to its ready condition. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-02-05 18:56 |
| #2 "Snotty beamed me twice last night." |
| Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-02-05 17:32 |
| #1 ratcheting up another notch. but to be honest ... if the Japanese don't stop China from taking over all the ocean territory in SE Asia - who will??? |
| Posted by: Raider 2013-02-05 16:11 |