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China-Japan-Koreas
Is World War Three about to start... by accident?
2014-01-04
Kewl fotos at the link
The photo of the Senkaku Islands finally gives me a sense of what they're arguing over, which isn't much...
Posted by:Uncle Phester

#15  ...ah, storm a sovereign embassy usually was considered the initiation of hostiles and inviting military consequences (see Peking, 1900).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-01-04 19:35  

#14  World War III started when the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed. You figure out the opposition...Iran, Syria, Pakistan, China, North Korea...we've been fighting WW III for almost 30 years already.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-01-04 19:05  

#13  Watch it happen over failure to re-pay the rescue of the greendork cruiselines.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-01-04 16:51  

#12  If a swan can trumpet, can't a duck type?

and #3
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-01-04 15:52  

#11  Mao wanted to erase China's past, and they still have posters of him everywhere.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-01-04 14:40  

#10  National control at the level China needs wasn't possible until the advent of modern communications technologies......

...and Nixon/Kissinger
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-04 14:24  

#9  Grom,

Well....one could make the argument that China wasn't a truly unified nation until Mao took over. You had some combinations of provinces that were stronger and more unified than others but even under the Emperors, control could be a dodgy thing the farther you got from the Forbidden City. National control at the level China needs wasn't possible until the advent of modern communications technologies.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2014-01-04 14:17  

#8  immature nation

Hah?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-01-04 13:19  

#7  China is a tough, assertive, immature nation in a hurry; the United States is seen in Beijing as a weakly led, declining military power that is vulnerable to pressure

Kinda says it all. IOW: weakness invites aggression. Obummer squanders our money on corporate bailouts, crony capitalism, a fool's errand in Afghanistan and healthcare for derelicts while the Chinese build up their military and threaten their neighbors.


Posted by: Abu Uluque   2014-01-04 11:43  

#6  You mean, all this time... you've been a duck?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-01-04 10:13  

#5  
It's not China or Japan I'm concerned about.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-01-04 10:01  

#4  A war would require a C-in-C with - shall we say - Churchillian resolve. So I ain't worried.
Posted by: Bobby   2014-01-04 09:52  

#3  it ain't the islands... It's the anchor that you can draw a large circle around of territorial water... under which might be a hell of a lot of oil and gas.

Posted by: 3dc   2014-01-04 06:45  

#2  Speaking of Pudgy ...

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > "CHOSUN ILBO" KOREAN MEDIAS: NORTH KOREAN LEADCER KIM JONG-UN MAY HAVE A HEALTH PROBLEM AS HE BREATHES ONCE EVERY FOUR SECONDS.

versus

* SAME > "SANKEI SHIMBUN" MEDIA: JAPAN AIR SELF-DEFENSE FORCES [JASDF]SETTING UP A AIR TACTICAL STUDY GROUP TO RESEARCH AND IMPROVE POSSIBLE DEFENSE METHODS IN CASE OF LR AIR, MISSLE ATTACK FROM NORTH KOREA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-01-04 01:00  

#1  I'm still waiting to see what kind of PERMANENT pro-peace compromise or agreement POTUS Bammer, SecState Jaawhn, + Caroline will come up to prevent China-Japan war.

Again, there is no sign that China is willing to give up, delay, andor amend its "post-US" agenda.

OTOH there's We're-supposed-to-be-the-World's-first-Islamic-Superpower-not-Iran Pakistan ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > ALTAF THREATENS SEPARATE PROVINCE [ + ultimately a separate sovereign Country] FOR URDU-SPEAKING SINDHIS.

FYI Regional SIKHS are demanding more Political-Legal Rights, or in altern their own separate country.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-01-04 00:47  

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