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2010-07-15 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. not to send aircraft carrier to Yellow Sea

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Posted by Steve White 2010-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 IOW, the US-ROK MIL/NAVEXS will go on, just widout the "GEORGE" until after 07/21st + "TWO-PLUS-TWO" SUMMIT.

* WAFF > US, S.KOREA NAVAL EXERCISE POSTPONED.

* WAFF > RUSSIA TO TAKE DELIVERY OF FIVE S-400 ADS BRIGADES IN 2010 [TWO S-400 Brigades slated for deployment to RUSS FAR EAST, on the border either agz CHINA or more likely NORTH KOREA].

ARTIC = RUSS says that 90% of its S-400 MILSYS EQUIPMENT is good to last for 25-30 Years.

* WAFF > [RIMPAC 2010] US SENDS A MESSAGE TO CHINA: "THE PACIFIC IS OURS".

* WMF > STRATEGIC REVIEW: EAST ASIA REACHES A [decisive]"CROSSROADS": RISE OR FALL OF ASEAN + "ASIA RISING" AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE US-CHINA RIVALRY, COMPETITION FOR EAST ASIA.

* SAME WMF > JAPAN FACING NATIONAL BACKRUPTCY: CHINA MUST PREPARE FOR REGIONAL + GLOBAL ECON, GEOPOL CONSEQUENCES WROUGHT BY JAPAN'S NATIONAL DEBT BEING 229% OF ITS GDP.

* SAME WMF > PEKING UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR: AS LONG AS KIM JONG-IL IS ALIVE, CHINA'S POLICIES TOWARDS NORTH KOREA WILL NOT CHANGE; + US CSIS PACIFIC FORUM DIRECTOR RALPH COSSAS CLAIMS THAT THE US WILL NOT REDUCE ITS MILITARY PRESENCE IN SOUTH KOREA [Japan?] AS LONG AS THE NORTH KOREAN THREAT TO THE SOUTH REMAINS.

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE OFRUM > [Times of India] CHINA BUILDING THE "BIGGEST" LAND PORT TO CONNECT WID SOUTH ASIA VIA NEPAL.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-15 03:05|| 2010-07-15 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody's a total vag.
Not sayin who, but somebody.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-15 04:34|| 2010-07-15 04:34|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect this is done because Jong Il is crazy enough to want to go out with a bang, and the Yellow Sea is too tricky to guarantee defensive coverage.

He would probably order some suicide missions throwing Skvalls at it. "Go ahead, nuke my country. I don't care."

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-15 09:04|| 2010-07-15 09:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Oblahblah is learning to Kowtow.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2010-07-15 12:52|| 2010-07-15 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 "Zero" blinks almost as much as Pelosi....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-07-15 19:47|| 2010-07-15 19:47|| Front Page Top

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