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2009-05-29 China-Japan-Koreas

Clinton reassures Japan, S. Korea after N. Korea nuke test

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Posted by Fred 2009-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC VALUES OF THE GENERATIONS [Gener Gap]: CAN CHINA'S [youthful/young] ARMY WIN THE NEXT WAR?; + NOT "DEFENSE IN DEPTH, BUT OFFENSE IN DEPTH": CHINA HISTORICALLY EMERGES IN A FAR BETTER OR STRONGER GEOPOL POSITION WHEN IT WAGES WAR AGZ ITS ENEMIES OUTSIDE OF CHINA. IOW, e.g. CHINA AS THE HISTORICAL "Sick Man of Asia" + Boxer Rebellion + Sino-Japanese Wars.,......@ milyuhns of casualties and loss, destruction of territories; versus PLA-led US defeat in Korean War, US failure in Vietnam, 1960's Sino-Soviet Border Clashes, + 1979 Sino-Vietnam Border War.

* SAME > CHINA'S STRATEGISTS ARE STEADILY COMING TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF PROLIFIC STRATEGIC AIR-SPACE POWER IN SUPPORT OF GROUND ARMY, NAVAL OPERATIONS AND OTH FORCE PROJECTION. IN ITS PAST, CHINA DID NOT HAVE NOR USED ITS AIR FORCES TO SUPPORT THE ARMY TO THE EXTENT THE US DID DURING WW2, KOREA, + VIETNAM, NOT EVEN DURING ITS 1979 BORDER WAR AGZ VIETNAM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-29 00:45|| 2009-05-29 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 SAME > BRITISH MEDIAS: CHINA PLANNED TO BUT 210 MIRAGE-2000's. OUT OF 3400 COMBAT AIRCRAFT IN THE PLAAF, THE USAF ESTIMATES 2325 WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED DUE TO OBSOLESCENCE; + US-JAPAN-TAIWAN SHOCK: VENEZUELA MAY TRANSFER US-MADE F-16's TO CHINA. US 1982 sale to Venez of F16A/B versions + via F16 trasnfers to China via other Latin Amer nations = 1980's US Latin Amer allies. Despite their age + block versions, these older F16's would be among the most advanced and potent in the PLAAF's inventory, even agz more contemporary/newer RUSS SU30's. The USA = USAF, USDOD also fears F16 tech transfers to China via improvements in PRC-TAIWAN RELATIONS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-29 00:55|| 2009-05-29 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Is Hillary channeling the Buddy Christ in this picture?

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-29 07:28|| 2009-05-29 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Whats telling is that the Japanese feel so secure they aree going to ditch their constitution, build up an army, and acquire nukes. Good show Obama, oh wait can I blame him without being called a racists?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-05-29 09:02|| 2009-05-29 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Did anybody buy it?

Posted by mojo 2009-05-29 11:17|| 2009-05-29 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Build up an army? What are they going to do, conscript the hikkikomori en masse? It's not as if there's a vast horde of lethal young things marking time in Shibuya.

Oh, god. They're going to arm the kogals & gothic lolitas, aren't they?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-05-29 12:49|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-05-29 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Mitch H - two words: 'Giant Mecha'

Posted by DMFD 2009-05-29 17:58|| 2009-05-29 17:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Seriously, if Japan quietly sent word to China that it was going to develop nukes in response to the Nork tests, China would have no choice but to get tough on Kim.

And don't think it would be an idle threat. Japan has the technology to go nuclear (even thermonuclear) and develop a sophisticated delivery system pretty darn quick. For that matter, the same is true of South Korea.

Our assurances mean nothing, and probably delay a real solution to the problem.

Posted by DMFD 2009-05-29 18:03|| 2009-05-29 18:03|| Front Page Top

#9 From the 1980s on, Japan has had the plutonium, the technicians, and the military technology to build very sophisticated thermonuclear weapons. Last declassified report I saw said it would take the Japanese 6 weeks to begin production from first approval, and that they would have 250 5-10 megaton warheads within 6 months.
Another point is that Japan launches its own satellites and if you can put TV satellite in a stable orbit, you can deliver nukes on time and in the proper place with the same rocket/missile.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-05-29 18:32|| 2009-05-29 18:32|| Front Page Top

#10 WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC RUSSIA SHAKING: SUCCESSFUL IRAN, NORTH KOREAN TESTS SHOW RUSSIA CHINA, AND CENTRAL ASIA AT FUTURE THREAT FROM NUCLEAR ISLAMISM/TERRORISM. NUCLEAR MILITANTS SLOWLY WINNING THE "BATTLE/WAR FOR CONTROL OF MIANLAND ASIA".

Lest we fergit, "US IMPERIALISM" + COMMUNIST-ISLAMIST COLLLUSION > no one should be surprised iff both Radical Islamism and their anti-US Commie-Anarchist colluders ride the post-9-11 tails of so-called "US GLOBALISM/IMPERIALISM" under POTUS Dubya + GWOT, by and for the sake of OWG-NWO + thier separate premises of a GLOBAL SUPER-STATE. IFF AND WHEN THE USA IS DEFEATED OR SUBORNED, THE ANTI-US, ETC. PRO_OWG-NWO HONEYMOON BETWEEN LEFTIST-SOCIALIST + RADICAL ISLAMIST WILL BE OVER.

* IRAN + NOKOR TESTS [2006 -2012/2016] > THE LOVER'S QUARREL + FUTURE DIVORCE BEGINS???

* MAGNETO, MASTER OF MAGNET to [ancient Egyptian Babe] MYSTIQUE > THIS IS ONE LOVERS QUARREL WE DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF, MY DEAR!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-29 20:37|| 2009-05-29 20:37|| Front Page Top

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