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2014-02-24 China-Japan-Koreas

China claims Japan is secretly developing nuclear weapons

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Given the bellicose threats from one of their neighbors *cough*china*cough*, they would be fools not to.

A short, expensive war, I'm guessing. Salami-slicing will get the Chinese only so far and if actual fighting is going to start, it is better for China to do it before their neighbors can build up.

Posted by SteveS 2014-02-24 01:05|| 2014-02-24 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 In the first Korean War, Mao's PAVF [People's Army Volunteer Force] had the support of a Soviet logistical base that had little demobilized since the end of WW2 in 1945 - it is well known that Stalin would send cargo-ships + miles-long rail cars full of supplies from Manchuria to China in support of Mao's PAVF.

Be it Stalin, Mao, or even Deng, the defects of the Commie econ model shows up again + again in China's military incidents agz both the USSR in the late 1960's + agz Vietnam in 1979.

BACK THEN, HOWEVER, WARS-N-CULTURAL-REVOLUTION RECOVERING CHINA SAW NO REASON TO BECOME A US OR EVEN SOVIET STYLE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER - NOW IT DOES.

As the World takes its first painful steps towards the colonization of deep space, it will be the "final/last hurrah" of many Govts-States to achieve their national ambitions per thesoon-to-be-obsololete, pre-Globalist aka pre-Space Order.

Iff a shooting war does start, despite the alleged "rust" + tech backwardness of the PLA Maha-Rushian histoire' says China will not stop until either it achieves it goals or it is conquered.

Again, "offensive" China will be waging a war agz a Pert, MSM-Net verified "red-line" busting Obama-led "defensive" Amerika that is already engaging in unilateral = self-imposed geopol retreat.

IMO NOT GOOD NEWS FOR GUAM + PACIFIC ISLES VEE HUGO CHAVEZ'S LAND/ISLAND-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/
TECTONIC BOMBS".

The good news for Oceania is that 1960's-70's = 1980's MTV OWG BRIC Girl Paula "Trip to Brazil" Abdul can't kick a Coconut iff the same is now underwater thanks to the retreating OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR, now can she???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-24 01:36|| 2014-02-24 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 The escalation goes on ...

* ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINESE AIRCRAFT ENTERS JAPANESE ADIZ.

* SAME > [Global Times] CHINA [South China Sea] CLAIMS "ABSOLUTE NONSENSE".

* SAME > [Bloomberg] PHILIPPINES NEARS PACT TO BOOST US TROOPS.

VERSUS

* NEW TORK TIMES > US PENTAGON PLANS TO SHRINK ARMY TO PRE-WW2 LEVELS.

IIRC thats how the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor + Guam invaded.

* RUSSIA TODAY > "SIX CALIFORNIAS" PLAN TO SPLIT MOST POPULOUS US STATE GETS GREEN LIGHT.

What little is left of the USDOD is going overseas, but fear notteth, the Drones + SkyNet-Matrix will defend us!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-24 02:22|| 2014-02-24 02:22|| Front Page Top

#4 With the right material any competent engineer could make a nuclear bomb.

It's just an MSM meme that making a nuclear bomb is hard.

And I understand Japan has had the right material for a long time.

Posted by phil_b 2014-02-24 07:18|| 2014-02-24 07:18|| Front Page Top

#5 And the response:
"Your point is?..."

Posted by ed in texas 2014-02-24 07:25|| 2014-02-24 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Kinda like Saddam's bio program, I think that Japan is sitting on all the parts (parts is parts) and as the commercials say it's just "Some Assembly Required."

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-24 07:37|| 2014-02-24 07:37|| Front Page Top

#7 China is a bad neighbor. O administration is a total wreck. Japan can ally with others bullied by China. This is the work of politicians. The Chinese military does what it is ordered to do. Japan must defend itself. Why is it so difficult to be a good neighbor?. China politicians act like they are surrounded by hostile neighbors. The wall is still standing but has grown around the entire country.

Posted by Dale 2014-02-24 08:02|| 2014-02-24 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8 So much for the Beltway/Academic elites belief that integrating China into the modern world economy would suppress several thousand years of imperial chauvinistic nationalism.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-24 08:46|| 2014-02-24 08:46|| Front Page Top

Follow the MONEY !

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-24 09:43|| 2014-02-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder if the Russians won't come to some mutual agreement with the Japanese about the northern islands to counterbalance the Chinese unilateral approach to the south?

Posted by Skidmark 2014-02-24 11:30|| 2014-02-24 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 From the failed Plutonium Recycling program... Japan should have enough Pu to make about 50,000 bombs...
Just saying..

Posted by 3dc 2014-02-24 12:09|| 2014-02-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Pot, Kettle.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-02-24 14:23|| 2014-02-24 14:23|| Front Page Top

#13 So it's OK for the Pakis, the NORKs, the Iranians, the Syrians, etc., etc., etc. but NOT the Japanese, huh? Guess it all depends on where they're aimed. I guess the Chicoms are worried that if they start losing in a conventional naval war they can't just lose their temper and threaten to launch a nuke. Bitch, ain't it?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-02-24 14:27|| 2014-02-24 14:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Heck if I was Japan I would have started it the day Obama was first sworn in.
And doubled the effort the day Obama effectively left Iraq to fend for itself.
And doubled it again when... well you get the picture.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-02-24 14:59|| 2014-02-24 14:59|| Front Page Top

#15 I suspect Japan has some kind of missile or bomb that could easily have the warhead changed out. I suspect they also have the plans ready to go for any kind of fission device they would desire to build and assemble such a device in a week or so. Lastly they definately have the fissionable materials after having a nuclear power program for decades.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised if they had a few nukes ready in case, except there are so many anti-nuke folks there one of their might have ratted them out if they did. I don't know.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-02-24 15:43|| 2014-02-24 15:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Frankly, with all the sterling assurances from DC, I'd be suspecting a work-sharing relationship between Japan, South Korea, and maybe an odd one, let's say, Brunei.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-02-24 18:57|| 2014-02-24 18:57|| Front Page Top

#17 * ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Global Times] US MAY ALREADY SECRETLY RETURNED TO SUBIC BAY IN PHILIPPINES, to MilFacs maintained + kept ready by a "secret foreign company", + is getting ready to ditto return to the former Clark AFB.

FYI calls for India to allow the US to build a base there in order to deter Pak-based MilTerr Groups [also read, CHINA = BANGLA, MYANMAR] will make China more twitchy.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-24 19:58|| 2014-02-24 19:58|| Front Page Top

#18 if actual fighting is going to start, it is better for China to do it before their neighbors can build up.

I don't think China could cobble together even the flimsiest of excuses fast enough to beat the Japanese to the punch.

Posted by gorb 2014-02-24 23:25|| 2014-02-24 23:25|| Front Page Top

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