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2013-07-20 China-Japan-Koreas

ROK Asks U.S. to Delay Troop Control Handover Again

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Posted by Steve White 2013-07-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Not a good sign.

More bad signs of pending conflict ...

* STARS-N-STRIPES > [PACOM Chief Locklear] "MORE NORTH KOREA PROVOCATIONS LIKELY".

* TOPIX > [Asahi News Network] MANILA: CHINA TURNING SOUTH CHINA SEA INTO ITS "LAKE", SAYS PHILIPPINES.

* SAME > ABE: NO DEALING/COMPROMISE ON DIAOYU ISLANDS.

* GLOBAL TIMES > OPED: JAPAN PM VOWS END TO ARTICLE 9, of Japan's post-WW2 Constitution

* PRAVDA, FREEREPUBLIC > JAPAN GIVES UP ITS REPUTATION FOR MILITARY POWER.

* WAFF > [StrategyPage] THE US NAVY HURRIES [UAV/Drone-led] PREPARATIONS FOR [anti-SLBM, TLCM] WAR AGZ CHINA.

* TIME.COM > CHINA FINDS A GAP IN JAPAN'S MARITIME CHOKEPOINTS.

Le Perouse = Soya Strait/Sakhalin shennanigans + PCorrect post-1945 UNCLOS Legalisms come back to threaten Nipponland.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Phil Star] PHILIPPPINES URGES CHINA: BE A "RESPONSIBLE NATION".

RELATED SAME > CHINA MUST RESPECT [International = UNCLOS] RULE OF LAW - DFA.

* SAME > [Inquirer] PHILIPPINE ARMY TO SHIFT TO [anti-China] TERRITORIAL DEFENSE. PHIL NOLCOM [Northern Luzon Command] CHIEF.

PHIL helping to protect US CVNS, BGS from China's ASBMS + Motherly PLA Airborne???

* SAME > CHINA IN US$5.0BILYUHN DRIVE TO DEVELOP DISPUTED EAST CHINA SEA GAS FIELD, in disputed EEZ/SEZ also claimed by Japan.

versus

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN SURVEY SHIPS PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT, TENSIONS WID CHINA RISING.

Two Fleets in very very close proximity to each other above one UW/Seafloor Gas Field.

[THE SIMPSON'S "BURNS SLANT OIL DRILLING COMPANY" here].

"Say goodbye to the Sun, Springfield"!

* SAME > KOREAN REUNIFICATION: DON'T BE SURPRISED IFF IT HAPPENS - FORBES.

But first "the China Question", i.e. come circa 2018, will "post-US" wannabe, anti-Containment, anti- First Island Chain Beijing accept a Nuclear DPRK, Nuclear ROK, + Nuclear Nippon wid Strong Military???

Given also the budding Nuclear Islamist-Jihadist = Global Nuclear Jihad threat???

First thingys must come first.

* SAME > CHINA GETS TRICOMALEE PORT - THIRD PORT IN SRI LANKA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-07-20 00:51|| 2013-07-20 00:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Finally recognizing the 'pay-as-you-go' corruption of the ranks?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-07-20 12:51|| 2013-07-20 12:51|| Front Page Top

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