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2006-11-14 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan can legally be allowed to possess nuclear arms, gov't says

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Posted by Steve 2006-11-14 09:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 thanks Kim, you little asshole!

Posted by Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao 2006-11-14 09:44|| 2006-11-14 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 This will get Chinese panties in a wad!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-14 10:03|| 2006-11-14 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I imagine Honda could start cranking out nukes next week.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-14 11:33|| 2006-11-14 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 A necessary minimum is a lot more than a necessary maximum too.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-11-14 11:39|| 2006-11-14 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I imagine Honda could start cranking out nukes next week.

...And with direct to buyer rebates, they'll sell like hotcakes.
Al kidding aside, I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the Japanese government's last warning to the Norks and ChiComs. There had better be some distinct, verifiable improvement, and damned fast, or there won't BE another announcement, other than to say the first Japanese IRBMs have stood up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-14 13:10|| 2006-11-14 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Yup, Mike. Japan is running a big red banner up the flagpole. If China refuses to comprehend and does not rein in its Rottweiler, North Korea, then nuclearization will proceed apace. Too bad that Japan does not have the ostiones to contrive a mutual defense pact with Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines. Post WWII memories are probably way too strong for any of that.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-14 14:34|| 2006-11-14 14:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Zenster-
Sir, you have a wonderful idea there - if the Japanese could throw in some trade and business deals too, I think Taiwan and the PI would seriously consider it but the memories of Japanese occupation in Korea go back several generations past WWII. The Taiwanese especially would put the ChiComs in one hell of a bind by placing themselves under the shadow of an Asian bomb.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-14 14:55|| 2006-11-14 14:55|| Front Page Top

#8 The Taiwanese especially would put the ChiComs in one hell of a bind by placing themselves under the shadow of an Asian bomb.

Bingo, Mike. Nothing like a homegrown defense structure to cut the legs out from under any Chinese communist protests regarding American hegemony. Sadly, the collective memory of historical trauma imposed by the Japanese probably precludes it.

You're dead on with the trade package idea, though. The Philippines desperately needs some sort of economic boost to reignite foreign investment. Their own internal corruption has just about killed off any inflow of outside capital.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-14 16:19|| 2006-11-14 16:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Yuk, Yuk. Trains on the track. Will be leaving the station soon.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-14 18:22|| 2006-11-14 18:22|| Front Page Top

#10 As a US servicemember-commentator implied on STARS-AND-STRIPES, COMMIE CHINA MAY WANT REGIONAL HEGEMONY = EMPIRE, BUT SHE STILL HAS TO AFFORD = PAY FOR IT, to pay for her own ambitions. RUSSIA in a quandry becuz they know, be it via future EURO-ARABIA = SINO-ASIA/PACIFIC, unless something changes their $$$ profits in LT will go down once the regressions + local sectarianisms/civil wars begin [again]. FASCISTS-FOR-COMMUNISM RUSSIA AT HEART WANTS TO BE THE [SOLE] RECEIVER, BOT A GIVER, IFF THEY CAN HELP IT - like China, Russia must afford her own hegemonic/new empire ambitions.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-14 21:20|| 2006-11-14 21:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Forgot to say that, besides NORTH KOREA + TAIWAN + TOBET issues, Beijing does NOT wholly trust either MANCHURIA or MONGOLIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-14 21:24|| 2006-11-14 21:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Forgot to say that, besides NORTH KOREA + TAIWAN + TIBET issues, Beijing does NOT wholly trust either MANCHURIA or MONGOLIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-14 21:24|| 2006-11-14 21:24|| Front Page Top

#13 The Greater East Aisa Co-thingy?
Nah...

Taiwan is a divided mess.
KMT split into 3
Taiwan Nats into a couple of parties.

Current Prez is a Kaohsiung mobster turned Pol. (Not from the Bamboo Gang)
He would love to integrate into a Japan Sphere but he doesn't have the money to pull it off. Taiwan's big money is invested in South China.
Commie party is strong in North China.
South China has always been biz men and would like to be cozy with Taiwan. North China has always been PARTY and Mil. They don't get any KumShaw (money benefit) out of the deal so they rattle their swords (just like our gens sometimes do) and defense money flows into their pockets.

Taiwan has a real outsourcing problem just like the USA. All their jobs are going to China so wages are depressed for everybody not the capitalist owners in Taiwan. That mixes the broth even more.

To top it off... 20-1 they have had nukes since the late 70s.

Posted by 3dc 2006-11-14 22:33|| 2006-11-14 22:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Somehow I think Japan will start seriously reconsidering its pacifist position now that the Donks are in power here and ready to kick the financial legs out from under the WOT (in order to aid their allies the terrorists.... (why yes, as a matter of fact I do question their patriotism!))

I think they had an almost front row seat to what happened in Vietnam and then Cambodia after the democrats kicks the financial legs out of our support there.

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