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2014-12-03 China-Japan-Koreas

Former General: China Will not Go to War for N. Korea

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 First off, China already has sizable potent PLA forces or MilAssets in NOKOR, ostensib to "support" the Kim Family Regime.

Second, theres no way in hell that China will allow any de facto collapsed NOKOR state to exist such that an anti-China SOKOR or US-led International Coalition will take over the reins of post-collapse NOKOR governance.

Bear in mind that whomever controls or dominates NOKOR or the TWO KOREAS also controls the coasts of mainland China from KOREAS-TAIWAN to HAINAN ISLAND + NORTHERN PHILIPINE OPERAT AREAS.

Third, as said time before China wants TAIWAN, i.e. China's equivalent of what Pearl Harbor + Norfolk CENTCOMS, etc, are to the USDOD-Navy - Beijing is unlikely to accept any form of formal Inter-Korean Unification unless China gets Taiwan back first PERMANENTLY. Even iff Taiwan is successfully acquired, China will demand a much-reduced or no US Mil Presence in the Koreas, Japan, + NE Asia region.

Fourth, there is the longstanding RUSSIA FACTOR = MURPHY'S LAW. China will go to war over NOKOR iff it believes Russia, etal. [Nippon?] will attempt to take it over.

The above being said, IMO the likelihood of a Sino-Japanese war over NE Asia strategic access for the PLA + Chinese geopol security is increasing almost every day.

* FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN INCREASINGLY WARY OF CHINA'S ECONOMIC AND MILITARY HEFT. SHINZO ABE AND XI JINPING MEETING ON ISLANDS DISPUTE DOES LITTLE TO THAW RELATIONS.

Both China + Japan see themselves as Asia's or East Asia's #1.

["HIGHLANDER" Movie = "There can Only be One"! here].

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [The Hindu] CHINA MAY BE ADDING [Aircraft] CARRIER MIGHT [=, > 3 CVS + Liaoning] TO MEET REGIONAL THREATS, espec in response to POTUS Obama's "Asia Pivot".

* YAHOO NEWS > [AFP] CHINA VOWS TO PROTECT TERRITORIAL INTERESTS.

Artic read, THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IS THEIRS.

* SAME > CHINA'S CHALLENGE TO THE GLOBAL ORDER [OWG-NWO]: TAKING THE "CAREFUL" APPROACH.

Wid more than a little help from Anti-US US Globalist POTUS Obama, OWG Globies, + Obama's "Red Lines".

OWG GLOBALISM = NOT "PEACE THRU STRENGTH" OR "TRUST, BUT VERIFY", BUT "RETREAT IS PEACE" + "SURRENDERING LIKE VICHY FRANCE IS A WAY OF LIFE, NOT JUST ANOTHER VERY PURDY WORD".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-03 01:21|| 2014-12-03 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn now JOE! Excellent read.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-03 06:15|| 2014-12-03 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 That is good Joe!

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-03 06:55|| 2014-12-03 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 - but maybe 'incorporate'?

I believe the old technical term was vassal state. ~~Rename~~ Rebrand it Balhae. The earliest extant recorded mention of Balhae come from the Old Book of Tang, which was compiled between 941 to 945. See, linkage back to the Tang Dynasty. Extra good claim on ~~Soviet~~ Russian far east territory.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-03 09:07|| 2014-12-03 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 China supports norks with oil so they keep kimmie's regime alive.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-12-03 10:09|| 2014-12-03 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 @#1: Even iff Taiwan is successfully acquired, China will demand a much-reduced or no US Mil Presence in the Koreas, Japan, + NE Asia region.

If Mr. Obama and troupe have their way, it will be done, done and done.

Posted by Tholung Noodleman4539 2014-12-03 13:22|| 2014-12-03 13:22|| Front Page Top

#7 "China supports norks with oil so they keep kimmie's regime alive."

China frequently uses generals and other expendable folk to make announcements they could officially distance themselves from. Could this be a warning that perhaps the oil will be stopping and don't expect China to clean up the mess.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-12-03 14:34|| 2014-12-03 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Or maybe the message is just "STOP SPENDING ALL YOUR ALLOWANCE IN ONE PLACE."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-12-03 18:51|| 2014-12-03 18:51|| Front Page Top

#9 The outspoken Wang
Is that subtly calling him 'a blunt instrument'?

Posted by Skidmark 2014-12-03 21:20|| 2014-12-03 21:20|| Front Page Top

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