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| China did something it's never done before to warn the US about fighting North Korea |
| 2017-12-06 |
| [Bus Insider] As the US and South Korean militaries worked together on the largest-ever version of their annual air-power exercise on the Korean Peninsula, China did something that suggests it would consider backing up North Korea in the event of war. On Monday, the same day the exercise started, a spokesman for China's air force said it had staged exercises along "routes and areas it has never flown before" with surveillance aircraft over the Yellow and East seas near the Korean Peninsula, according to the South China Morning Post. While China needs to exercise its constantly expanding and modernizing military, this exercise most likely had another purpose. "The timing of this high-profile announcement by the PLA is also a warning to Washington and Seoul not to provoke Pyongyang any further," Li Jie, a military expert based in Beijing, told the Post, using the abbreviation for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. With a record 24 US stealth aircraft in South Korea for the Vigilant Ace exercises, China's move sends a clear message. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 China needs to grow the hell up and realize that nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them in the hands of that nutjob in North Korea is a clear and present danger to the very existence of the US, and will have to be either be removed by sanctions - or by force. China's playing politics with this is bullshit, and it will lead to a nuclear war - or at least as severe a military strike as we can put together. Either that, or we arm the South Koreans and Japanese with nukes of their own. Wake up and stop playing games China - you can topple the regime peacefully if you enforce sanctions that have already been called for. If you do not, then we will be forced to act. And China will pay huge consequences if we do. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-06 23:28 |
| #11 Rasher nails it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-06 16:12 |
| #10 That was me... |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-12-06 15:40 |
| #9 The West has pulled the wool over its own eyes for many decades now. But the unchanging truth is that China has always stood in North Korea's corner. Over the ages, Korea's standing in Chinese eyes has varied between tributary state and province. No amount of wishful thinking will change that. The real long term question is whether we're willing to fight China to keep Korea (either one) independent. Because IMO, China's long term goal is the enlargement of the Yanbian prefecture to include all of the Korean peninsula, at which point it might become a full-fledged province. |
| Posted by: Phineting the Rasher7207 2017-12-06 15:39 |
| #8 What is the North Korea's national dish? Fried Lice? Only during times of maximum Juche. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-12-06 14:38 |
| #7 staged exercises along "routes and areas it has never flown before" with surveillance aircraft over the Yellow and East seas Interesting choice of words. NOT 'Sea of Japan', but maybe ROK, Japan and north to Sakhalin. Maybe also north DPRK border as requested. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-06 13:03 |
| #6 What is the North Korea's national dish? Fried Lice? |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-12-06 12:42 |
| #5 I think China would need ground forces more than air power to control what was left of North Korea after a skirmish with the US. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-12-06 11:41 |
| #4 Has anyone considered these are the same flights and reconnaissance that China needs if they are to be ready to "impose their will" over a failed state in North Korea to prevent chaos at their own border and maritime areas? |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-06 11:35 |
| #3 If China exercises patience, in a few more centuries there won't be a Japan. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-06 09:09 |
| #2 China wants nuclear Japan? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-06 07:03 |
| #1 China's latest military exercise may serve as a reminder to the US that the two military powers could find themselves on opposite ends once again should conflict break out with North Korea. Might as well add the Russians to the "opposite ends" equation also. Who could have known ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-06 06:42 |