#2
What we fail to remember is that there are not unlimited degrees of freedom for the AQ. Sure a "failure" is a win for the islamo-turds, but failure also reveals patterns in their approaches to terror...and patterns increase the opportunity for the good guys to anticipate. I suggest that accumulation of failures will lead to their ultimate demise as they are forced to take increasingly greater risks.
China in recent years has been sending its fishing craft into the waters of Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. South Korea catches 300 Chinese trawlers a year in South Korean waters.
Beijing, it appears, has been using fishing boats in quasi-military roles, proxies for the country's navy. The New York Times reports that American and Asian officials believe Chinese fishing boat incidents are increasing throughout the region.
Whether or not they believe it, others have been acting of indisputable facts.
As Beijing seeks to control its territorial waters--and the waters of others--we can expect to see other clashes involving Chinese civilian vessels. The Saturday episode, if viewed by itself, appears minor. Yet, unfortunately, it fits within a multi-year string of aggressive acts by Chinese boats throughout East Asia and a general trend of China's increased hostility toward neighbors.
Not hostility, arrogance. I'm sure it's mostly nothing personal.
#1
Again, CHIN-CONTROLLED "WARM WATER PORTS" WHICH CHINA THUS FAR DOES NOT APPEAR TO GETTING MUCH OF IN THE MOSTLY PRO-US-WEST "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" IN EAST ASIA.
This means Beijing to relegated to the INDIAN OCEAN [Read, RIVAL INDIA + US-NATO in AFPAK + CENTRAL ASIA, besides also RUSSIA + NUCLEARIZING IRAN.
Hence...
To wit,
* WORLD NEWS > CHINA NEEDS SECURITY ALONG ITS WESTERN BORDERS.
ARTIC = "Tis NOT RIVAL INDJUH [India] THAT CHINA FEARS ASMUCH AS AN UNSTABLE OR MILITANT-CONTROLLED MUSLIM NUCLEAR PAKISTAN, + ditto now RISING NUCLEAR IRAN, Ex-SOVIET -STANS? THREATENING WEST CHINA + TRANS-ASIAN ENERGY PIPELINES, LOGISTICS CORRIDORS.
* TOPIX > WIKILEAKS:HOW US "SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE" {Diplomatic Corps] TACKLES NUCLEAR THREAT [Iran + pro-MilTerr NUC SMUGGLING].
SUPERMAN = NUC "CLEANING CREWS", etal. receive LATE-NITE = 3:00AM EMERGENCY PHONE CALLS FROM US STATE DEPT.
#2
PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > TESTING TIME FOR SINO-US TIES.
and
* GLOBAL TIMES FORUM > FORBES: CHINA WON'T HELP THE US ON NORTH KOREA, AND HERE'S WHY.
ARTIC > Among other Perts'commentaries, BEIJING PERT = argues that SINO-DPRK RELATIONS HAVE CHANGED FOREVER???
and
* WMF > CHINA'S POSITION, INFLUENCE IN NORTH KOREA CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE AMIDST NORTH KOREAN BELLICOSITY, BEIJING + PYONGYANG ARE NOT ALLIES IN REAL ALLIANCE?
* WMF > KOREAN NATION BEGAN IN CHINA'S ANCIENT YELLOW SEA CULTURE/CIVILIZATION: MANY ORDINARY KOREANS MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THAT CHINA'S VAST NORTHEAST TERRITORIES ONCE BELONGED TO KOREA OR SOUTH KOREA. INTER-KOREAN LAMENTATION FOR THEIR ALLEGED "LOST KOREAN LAND OF MANCHURIA".
VERSUS
* SAME > WAR OF WORDS OVER "FOUR TUNNELS" [Borders] LINKING NORTH, SOUTH KOREA.
* SAME > JAPAN'S "NEW DEFENSE GROUP" TRYING TO PUSH JAPAN INTO ONCE AGAIN BECOMING A MAJOR MILITARY POWER. OTHER JAPANESE "YOUNG TURK" SECTOR GROUPS SUPPORT NATIONAL MODERNIZATION, RE-MILITARIZATION [includ NucWeaps] IN SUPPORT FOR ANTI-CHINA, PRO-JAPAN SOLE LEADERSHIP IN EAST ASIA.
* SAME > FIRE IN THE KURILES: JAPAN FACING GREAT MILPOL PRESSURES FROM CHINA + RUSSIA OVER ITS FORMER KURIL ISLANDS TERRITORIES + SAKHALIN ISLAND. THREAT OF JAPANESE MISSLE SUBMARINES TO CHINA'S INTERESTS IN NE ASIA + TAIWAN STRAITS. MAJORITY OF SURVEYED JAPANESE FAVOR DEV OF JAPANESE-CONTROLLED NUCLEAR, SPACE WEAPONS IN SUPPORT OF NATIONAL + REGIONAL SECURITY.
* TOPIX > BIG FIVE POWERS [+ Japan] UNDECIDED ON HOW TO HANDLE NORTH KOREA SITUATION.
#3
What with all these efforts to shoulder everybody else, it is a tremendous irony that this past October 18th was the 150th anniversary of the sacking of the Old Summer Palace by the British and French armies, tired of the Chinese trying to shoulder them.
ARTIC > US Senator MITCH MCCONNELL: US MUST MAINTAIN ITS MILITARY POWER TO "CONTROL THE PACIFIC RIM".
* SAME > [post-Yeongpyeong]BEHIND NORTH KOREA'S CONCESSION: DEALS UNDER THE TABLE?
IIUC ARTIC > Did the DPRK concede + allow the return of UNIAEA Nuclear Inspectors due to covert? US-DPRK bilateral negotiations? via US Envoy BILL RICHARDSON???
* NEWS KERALA > SOUTH KOREA TO CONDUCT MORE LIVE-FIRE DRILLS DESPITE TENSIONS [wid NOKOR]. Despite NOKOR threats of war + retaliatory mil attack.
* HURRIYET NEWS [old]> "NEW ZEALAND FEARED CHINA WAS DESTABILIZING PACIFIC".
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > VIETIANE LAOS HAS EFFECTIVELY CEDED SOVEREIGNTY TO BEIJING [ in exchange for Chin-led NATIONAL/STATE MODERNIZATION = ECON DEVELOPMENT] | THE LIMITS [unlimited?]OF CHINA'S EXPANSION, in Laos + large parts of SE Asia.
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