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2015-10-13 China-Japan-Koreas
Okinawa governor revokes permit for construction of new U.S. Marine base
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Posted by Steve White 2015-10-13 10:37|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 I agree with the OP - relocate the Marines to a friendlier environment, and let the inhabitants of Okinawa start studying Mandarin.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-10-13 11:11||   2015-10-13 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Music to the Champ's ears. He's probably already provided a closure date and alternative 'Great Society' use for the funding.
Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-13 11:14||   2015-10-13 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama doesn't provide enough contrast to Xi Jinping.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-13 11:52||   2015-10-13 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4  let the inhabitants of Okinawa start studying Mandarin.

Basically bringing what has been going on in the background out into the open.
Posted by Pappy 2015-10-13 11:54||   2015-10-13 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with the OP - relocate the Marines to a friendlier environment

That's not US territory either, given the SecNav trash talked the Marines' negative findings on women in ground combat demanding jobs.
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-13 12:15||   2015-10-13 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Give the mayor a round trip ticket to Puerto Rico so he can see for himself how their getting rid of 'Roosevelt Road' turned out.

I'm sure there's plenty of space at what's left of the naval station.
Posted by CrazyFool 2015-10-13 13:05||   2015-10-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I am so tired of screwing with this stupid base. Are not you?
Posted by newc 2015-10-13 13:28||   2015-10-13 13:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Just pull the whole lot out.

If Japan wants to fight China on it's own it should.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-10-13 15:22||   2015-10-13 15:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Despite inherent defects or issues, CHINA is proceeding wid its strategy to get the US out of East Asia-WESTPAC - voluntarily or forcibly - by 2020 NLT 2025.

As for Japan, China's focii remains trying to get Nippon to abandon the US + become a full-fledged Vassal State = "Ally" of China, E.G. NORTH KOREA. NO WAY IN HELL OWG CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA WILL ACCEPT HISTORICAL RIVAL JAPAN BEING #1 IN ANY OWG EAST ASIA, PAN-ASIA, ANDOR PAN-SINO, ETC. GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION(S) - CHINA WILL NUKE JAPAN FIRST BEFORE THAT EVER HAPPENS.

No sign yet that China is giving up or amending its desire for PLA-centric strategic access in either the South China Sea [PH, Vietnam, ASEAN] or East China Seas [JAPAN, SOKOR, Taiwan], IOR [India-Pak], nor per the recovery of Taiwan as China's future PLA CENTCOM in East Asia-Pacific.

WID THE US' "RETURN TO ASIA", WID THE USDOD SEEMINGLY "RE-TRENCHING" EVERYWHERE IT HAS MILBASES DURING THE ANTI-USSR COLD WAR, THE LIKELIHOOD THAT CHINA WILL ATTACK TWO OR MORE STRATEGIC FRONTS IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC INCLUD IOR IS VERY HIGH.

CHINA = BEIJING/CPC STILL FEELS THAT THEY ARE BEING FORCIBLY CONTAINED OR ISOLATED BY THE US, THUS A DEDICATED "SINGLE-FRONT" MILITARY CONFLICT AGZ ANY US ALLY MAY NOT BE ENUFF FOR CHINA.

Again, its likely safe to say that even iff Caroline Kennedy can prevent a CHINA-JAPAN WAR in 2016 or by the time POTUS Obama leaves office in Jan. 2017, AT BEST SHE WILL ONLY DELAY A CHINA-DEMANDED/REQUIRED WAR FOR PLA STRATEGIC ACCESS IN EAST CHINA SEA = NE ASIA, TO INCLUD RECOVERY OF TAIWAN BY CHINA, N-O-T TO PERMANENTLY PREVENT ONE.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-10-13 20:58||   2015-10-13 20:58|| Front Page Top

#10 12,500 American deaths in 1945 should give us the right to do any Damned thing we want on that island. Period.
Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-13 21:08||   2015-10-13 21:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Agree with Glenmore.
Posted by 3dc 2015-10-13 21:37||   2015-10-13 21:37|| Front Page Top

#12 More Nippon News from the Net this sunny Guam AM ...

* ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Russia Today] JAPAN SEEKS TO CUT SPENDING ON [domestic] US MILITARY BASES, in order to allocate or divert said funding towards improving the JSDF Capabilities, Milbases agz China, e.g. NEW SDF FACS ON YONAGUNI OFF TAIWAN.

US-Japan on possible collisIon course over Base Spending issue???

* SAME > [Defense One] JAPAN AMPHIB CAPABILITIES STRUGGLE WID [Inter-, Intra-Service} RIVALRIES, BUDGETS.

JSDF Top Eggs-vs-Top-Eggs.

USMC worried.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-10-13 22:57||   2015-10-13 22:57|| Front Page Top

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