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| Team Obama Changes Course, Appears to Accept China's Air Defense Zone |
| 2013-12-05 |
| Top Obama administration and Pentagon officials signaled a willingness to temporarily accept China's new, controversial air defense identification zone on Wednesday. Those officials expressed disapproval for the way in which the Asian power has flexed its muscles, and cautioned China not to implement the zone. But they also carved out wiggle room in which the United States and China ultimately could find common ground on the issue, indicating that they may be willing to live with the zone for now -- as long as China backs off its demand that all aircraft traveling through it check in first. |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #14 "In 1971, the Okinawa Reversion Treaty passed the U.S. Senate, returning the (Senkaku) islands to Japanese control in 1972." The Senkaku islands are territory that the US government explicitly ceded to Japan. This is a huge development but no surprise in a world without the US. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-12-05 16:58 |
| #13 "Is there a country left that Obama hasn't bent over and wiggled his ass for?" Canada, England, India, Israel, Poland, Serbia etc... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-05 15:10 |
| #12 Not really surprising when you ask yourself, "Where DID he get all that anonymous donations from during his presidential runs?" |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-12-05 14:59 |
| #11 You know, it's fast reaching the point where you no longer ask, "How many countries around the world are banging Obama?" Now it's just, "Is there a country left that Obama hasn't bent over and wiggled his ass for?" |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2013-12-05 14:51 |
| #10 ...golden rule... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2013-12-05 14:32 |
| #9 No expanded Chinese Defense Zone, no 'China City'. You decide. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-05 12:08 |
| #8 The -D next to his name should have been your real first tip. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-12-05 08:18 |
| #7 Obumbles gave in as soon as somebody let him know that this doesn't effect his golfing schedule. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2013-12-05 07:02 |
| #6 He's setting the stage for a nasty war. Well, his handlers are. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2013-12-05 06:08 |
| #5 The regime's order to commercial carriers to comply, should have been our first tip. Him bowing to Soody |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-12-05 06:01 |
| #4 I would love to have been on the flight deck of those two B-52's that transited China's new airspace and listened to the coms. The flight Looked pretty bold. An uncharacteristic provocation by the regime, or was it. The regime's order to commercial carriers to comply, should have been our first tip. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-12-05 03:49 |
| #3 As per WORLD MIL FORUM, it appears that both Japan + China are highly dissatisfied wid the outcome of VPOTUS Biden's visit - ITV, THE US IS MORE INTERESTED IN BEING A BYSTANDER + MEDIATOR VEE THE SINO-NIPPON DISPUTE, NOT A SERIOUS INTERVENOR = DIPLOMATIC LEADER??? All in all not a good sign for US Allies in East Asia. * BIG NEWS NETWORK > [Asia Times] FROM TEHRAN TO TOKYO US SHIFT IN MOTION. * JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: POWER SHIFTING IN PACIFIC. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > IN EAST CHINA SEA, A FAR BIGGER TEST OF POWER LOOMS. China may NOT be the only Nation-State in East Asia that is devol towards Geopol/MilPol-aggressive "Mahanism". New [Virginal?]"Young Turks" + resurgent "Zombie" Turks country wannabes. * TOPIX > [WSJ.com] HENNINGER: OBAMA'S "RED-LINE" PRESIDENCY. THE NEXT US PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO RESTORE THE TRADITION OF DURABLE [+ Credible] US FOREIGN COMMITMENTS. ARTIC = Post-War/WW2 International System is CRACKING, PERHAPS EVEN ON VERGE OF DE FACTO COLLAPSE, A SUSTAINED GOP-RIGHT OPINION/VIEW ON FOREIGN POLICY IS BADLY NEEDED. I agree - again, as per "justified" OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM, TO INCLUD TRANS/MULTI-CONTINENTAL, INTERDEPENDENT OWG GLOBAL FED UNIONS = THE MORE ANARCHIES + CHAOS, ETC. THE BETTER TO PERMANENTLY + IRREVOCABLY EMPLACE + ENTRENCH SAME. Unless somebody does something to royally screw things up, Syria + Iran are effect safe until next Summer 2014 as the US-Allies want to see iff Shia Iraan will help fight + defeat AQ's rising influence in the Middle East. OTOH MAY NOT BE THE SAME AS PER CHINA-VS-EVERYBODY IN EAST ASIA. There is no overwhelming or seriously threatening "Uighur" = Radical Islam MilTerr prob as yet for China - what "post-US", "Mahanist", future/proto-OWG "Co-Superpower" China has is a "strategic access" prob on several fronts in East-South Asia + Pacific. WANNABE CHINA WANTS TO EXPAND BEYOND ITS BORDERS BUT CAN'T BECAUSE THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" IS FULL OF US MILBASES, US ALLIES, ANDOR PRO-US ANTI-CHINA NON-ALIGNED OR NEUTRAL NATIONS. EITHER THE US = BAMMERIKA PCORRECTLY UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWS FROM THESE REGIONS SO CHINA CAN EXPAND, TO BE THE OWG CO-SUPERPOWER ANTI-US GLOBALISTS DESIRE IT TO BE; OR ELSE CHINA MUST UNILATERALLY WAGE WAR. China of course can give up or amend its "post-US" Manifest Destiny, but China thus far has shown no inckling to do so. WHAT THE RED-LINE BUSTING BAMMER ADMIN HAS DONE FOR OWG CO-SUPERPOWER RISING IRAN IT CAN DO FOR OWG CO-SUPERPOWER RISING CHINA??? Iff Iran can expand its reach to the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt + Red Sea, + soon AFPAK?; BY THE SAME GLOBALIST TOKEN CHINA CAN BE Allowed TO EXPAND ITS REACH TO EAST ASIA + 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC. Iff Iran wants to expand its naval power such that its LR Surface Warships [Aircraft Carriers?] + Submarines, etc. can routinely patrol along the US East Coast/Atlantic seaboard, WHY NOT CHINA + PLA [PLAN + PLAAF] IN SIMILAR ALL THE WAY TO HAWAII + US WEST COAST??? DOTH NOTTETH OWG GLOBALISM = THE GREAT POWERS GIVE IT UP TO THE LESSOR IN PARITY, NOT SUPERIORITY OR DOMINANCE??? Thusly, ideally a Pert, MSM-Net verified "Weak/Declining" USA = Rising China = Rising Iran = Rising ????????? IFF ISRAEL CAN HAVE NUKES, THEN IRAN + ANY OTHER MUSLIM NATION CAN HAVE NUKES. IFF THE US HAS USDOD MILBASES + OTHER CLOSE TO CHINA'S SHORE, THEN CHINA CAN HAVE PLA MILBASES + OTHER CLOSE TO US SHORES - DITTO AS PER IRAN, ETAL. CLOSE TO US SHORES. ALL NUKULAAR, ALL EQUAL, ALL THE TIME??? YOUR FUTURE SPACE GOVT-ORDER AT WORK, presuming iff we Americans = Amerikans can survive the transition. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-12-05 02:26 |
| #2 I'm sure if we only give them the Sudetenland that they won't want any more.... Obama didn't even get a worthless piece of paper to wave around out of the deal. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-12-05 00:49 |
| #1 It's getting reeeeally crowded under Ogabe's bus right now...128 million Japanese, with 100 million Filipinos and 50 million South Koreans soon to follow. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-12-05 00:20 |