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2010-05-05 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan scraps plan to move US Okinawa base

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Posted by lotp 2010-05-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 CHINA knows that its "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" [String of Pearls] is BOTH ITS DREAM AS WELL AS ITS NIGHTMARE as per its ability as a fledging superpower or wannabe to project milpol force anywhere in ASIA-PACIFIC, far beyond only the Coastlines + Littorals of EAST ASIA.

OTOH, RUSSIA isn't thrilled either way becuz CHIN'S SEEMING FAILURE AS A MAJOR MARITIME POWER = SUPERPOWER? MEANS ITS MASSIVE MANPOWER RESERVES WILL BECOM DEDICATED TO GROUND/LAND WARFARE [read, "Living Space" via domination of Russia].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-05 02:10|| 2010-05-05 02:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Repercussion of the sinking of the Cheonan? A cold bath of reality over rhetoric?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-05 09:03|| 2010-05-05 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 China's been sniffing around a lot in/near Japanese waters and harassing their shipping.

The price one pays for projecting weakness.

Gee, I wonder if there's a lesson for Barry in all this?

Posted by charger 2010-05-05 11:20|| 2010-05-05 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 My lord, don't they know they could tip over and capsize!!

Posted by Hank Johnson 2010-05-05 14:03|| 2010-05-05 14:03|| Front Page Top

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