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2010-08-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2010-08-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The Son sounds worse than the Father!

Posted by Paul2 2010-08-18 06:01|| 2010-08-18 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The Norks have utilized prevailing winds to conduct high altitude releases of propaganda leaflets into the South for many years. The stuff used to float down over K14 quite frequently. The South Koreans are forbidden to pick any of that material up, which follows the standard "if you didn't put it there, don't pick it up" rule. One of my personal favorites.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-18 06:28|| 2010-08-18 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The NorK factions might not be crazy enough to gas a G20 summit, but framing each other for *planning* such a thing seems highly likely.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-08-18 09:22|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-08-18 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ION WMF > RUSSIAN MIL EXPERTS: DESPITE NORTH KOREA'S BORDER WID RUSSIA, INTER-KOREAN CHAOS + WAR ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA INCLUDING AS PER THE "CHEONAN" AFFAIR IS LIKELY NOT IN RUSSIA'S CORE/NATIONAL INTERESTS UNLESS NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR US, CHINA ARE MILPOL INVOLVED.

* CHINESE MIL FORUM > THE MOOD IN THE PHILIPPINE MILITARY IS PARANOIA ABOUT [potential]CHINESE INVASION OF THE SPRATLYS | [AFP Chief of Staff LTG Ricardo David] REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES LACKS ARMS IN CASE OF WAR IN SPRATLEYS [agz China]. However, LTG David believes that Diploamcy, NOT Mil Conflict, can effec resolve the issue of final sovereignty.

* WMF > USDOD REPORT REVEALS CHINA'S DEV OF LR BOMBERS FOR ACTION IN THE "SECOND ISLAND" CHAIN [includes GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC-MICRONESIA].

* SAME > DAILY NEWS: CHINESE SCHOLARS SEE NO UNO OR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OBSTRUCTION, ETC. TO SINO-JAPAN BILATERAL COOPERATION, INTEGRATION ON THE SUBJECT OF OKINAWA + DAOYUS [Consensual
"Joint/Shared Sovereignty, Economic FTAS, etc.].

POSTER > IHO opined, as per OKINAWA-SPECIFIC POPULAR REFERENDUM on issues, THAT LOCAL OKINAWANS ARE PROB MORE LIKELY TO VOTE FOR FULL INDEPENDENCE FROM TOKYO [+ BEIJING?]THAN A RETURN TO HISTORICAL VASSALAGE WID MAINLAND CHINA.

OTHER > Rising China must have direct access to ANy + All Pacific trade routes, BY CONSENT OR BY MIL FORCE.

* SAME > CHINA SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FLIES ITS NEW H-10 STEALTH PROTOTYPE THANKS TO 1998 SHOOTDOWN + WRECK OF US F-117 STEALTH PLANE DURING THE YUGOSLAV CIVIL WAR [Bosnia Crisis + POTUS Billary Clinton].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-18 22:07|| 2010-08-18 22:07|| Front Page Top

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