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2014-04-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan puts radar on Yonaguni in South China Sea

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Posted by Steve White 2014-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The containment noose around China in East Asia, ECS + SCS + IOR, is steadily tightening.

* See INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Japan Times]MILITARY [Japan SDF] RISKS CHINA'S WRATH WITH FIRST MOVE WEST IN 40 YEARS.

* STARS-N-STRIPES > JAPAN PREPARES END TO BAN ON [MilPol] DEFENDING ALLIES.

RELATED ...
> WORLD NEWS [old] = HAGEL: US SUPPORTS THE MILITARIZATION OF JAPAN IN RESPONSE TO CHINA.
> TOPIX > CHINA REPEATS CLAIMS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA AS ITS TERRITORIAL WATERS, NO NEED FOR UN ARBITRATION.

Again, iff China + PLA must make a mil move, it must do so before Japan + other US Allies in East Asia acquire NucWeapons, + US-led Missle Defense = GMD-TMD [circa 2018].

VERSUS

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Global Times Op-Ed]
US COMMANDER'S REMARKS CAN'T INTIMIDATE CHINA MILITARY.

US Marine Forces, Okinawa Chief LTG John Wissler.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POSTER THREAD: HOW WILL THE US MARINES RE-CAPTURE MONGOLIA?, iff China "pivots" to Mainland Asia = Central Asia in response to an effective USDOD-Marine defense of the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus, or just to avoid direct military conflict agz the USA in East China Sea???

Read, CHINA-VS-RUSSIA.

Speaking of Mama Russia ...

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [RFA.org] WILL CHINA USE RUSSIA-STYLE TACTICS [Ukraine-Crimea] TO SETTLE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES IN ASIA?

RELATED DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > POSTER THREAD: WHAT IFF CHINA DOES A "CRIMEA" AGZ INDIA?

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Asia News Network] TAIPEI: TAIWAN CAN'T COUNT ON US NAVY [IMO read, POTUS Obama = Anti-US OWG Globalists] IFF TENSIONS RISE [vee China + PLA] IN STRAITS.

ARTIC = TAIWAN must prepare for any possible
"timid" US = POTUS Obama military or counter-response to agression on Taiwan by mainland China, IT IS NOT NECESSARY FOR MAINLAND CHINA TO DIRECTLY CONFRONT, DEFEAT OR DESTROY, AN INTREVENING US MILITARY FORCE, BUT ONLY TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY ITS CAUSE, PURPOSE, OR MISSION IN SUPPORT OF TAIWAN OR OTHER EAST ASIA US ALLIES.

Only two ways I can see - either China diplomatically turns US-Allies in East Asia agz the US, or into Neutrals; or China attacks preemptively + takes over strategic areas = theaters before the US can respond.

* SAME > AL-JAZEERA: THE [final = de facto] END OF CHINA'S SOFT POWER!?

* CHINA DAILY > CHINA'S MARITIME SPACE BEING CARVED UP?

* SAME > POSTER THREAD: CHINA MUST DECLARE IT IS WILLING TO DECLARE/FIGHT NUCLEAR WAR OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA + SENKAKUS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-21 02:19|| 2014-04-21 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm telling local McDonald's patrons-asscoiates that I'm eager to finally see Tom Cruise's new flick "EDGE OF TOMMORROW" [Live, Die, Repeat] also starring Emily Blunt, as I've had dreams or visions of that movie from many years + decades ago when I was younger.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-21 02:22|| 2014-04-21 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 OOOOOPPPPSSS, forgot TOPIX, BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINESE SHIPS REMAIN JUST OUTSIDE JAPAN WATERS.

Guam-CNMI???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-21 02:24|| 2014-04-21 02:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Same story but includes video, map and links to related articles...

I like to see video of these picturesque little islands whenever possible. Strong rice liquor sounds interesting too.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-21 13:40|| 2014-04-21 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 De latest this Guam AM ...

* DEFENCE.POK/FORUMS > BEIJING ASKS TOKYO TO EXPLAIN NEW RADAR BASE, on Yonaguni as so close to the "Chinese Diaoyus".

* RELATED BHARAT RAKSHAK > JAPAN LAUNCHES NEW AWACS UNIT [ASDF] IN OKINAWA.

Naha.

* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] THE DANGEROUS ESCALATING GAME OF MILITARY CHICKEN BETWEEN CHINA + JAPAN.

"Escalating" it will until Rising China = OWG Co-Superpower China gets back TAIWAN + DESIRED OVERSEAS PLA MILBASES.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [AEI] CHINESE COURT ORDERS JAPANESE BOAT SEIZED FOR WARTIME COMPENSATION, i.e. Nippon's failure to pay same stemming as far back as the 1930's.

IMO the larger or broader issue here is the LEGAL + DIPLOMATIC PRECEDENCE being set to demand-n-seize the sovereign territories or assets of Third-Party Nations for Debt.

Again - GUAM-WESTPAC? CNMI? HAWAII? 1/2-PLUS OF CONUS-NORAM?

MULTI-NATIONALS, INDUSTRIAL SECTORS???

versus

* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > WAKE UP, AMERICA! OBAMA IS TAKING AWAY OUR NATION'S ABILITY TO DEFEND ITSELF.

Again, 1990's CLINTONISM = AMERICA MUST BE RESTRAINED + CONTROLLED.

* TOPIX > [AEI} CAN OBAMA SAVE HIS MIGHTY PIVOT?

He may iff he can make Guam + CNMI into a US State???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-21 20:42|| 2014-04-21 20:42|| Front Page Top

#6 a Joe-Valanche!

Posted by Frank G 2014-04-21 21:53|| 2014-04-21 21:53|| Front Page Top

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