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2013-06-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Is Japan ready to revive its military might?

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Posted by ryuge 2013-06-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1757 views ] Top

1 IMO the real question is whether the US-World is ready for Japan not only to rearm but to possess NucWeapons.

Again, the US has said it wants to turn over much of its Cold War-era overseas security responsibilities to regional allies, e.g. Japan + ROK + PHIL, etal. - BUT, THESE NATIONS FEAR THE RISING CHINA + DON'T WANT US MILFORS TO LEAVE OR BE REDUCED UNTIL THEY DEV OR PROCURE THEIR OWN NUCWEAPS FOR ANTI-CHINA DETERRENCE.

The above also support the US plan to install regional GMD-TMD.

Post-Dubya, despite the Bammer's rhetoric to the contrary many US allies in East Asia fear that Democrat POTUS Obama is unreliable or untrustworthy as per his willingness to use US military assets in the defense of their countries agz a potentially resurgent, MilPol-aggressive China.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-17 00:54|| 2013-06-17 00:54|| Front Page Top

2 E.g. TOPIX > JAPAN UNDER SHINZO ABE: GOING INDEPENDENT FROM THE US?, vee PM Abe's desire to revise the post-1945 Japanese Constitution.

versus

* SAME > [SCMP] CHINA, TOO, CAN PLAY THE CONTAINMENT GAME, in reverse agz the US + its Allies.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > LU YUGUANG: RESURGENT RUSSIA REVIVALISM/NATIONALISM DOES NOT WISH TO SEE CHINA OVERTAKE THE US.

* SAME > CHINESE FM WANG YI: JAPAN MUST RELEARN THE "CAIRO" + "POTSDAM" DECLARATIONS PERTAINING TO THE RECOVERY OF TERRITORIES STOLEN FROM CHINA.

* DEFENCE.KP/FORUMS > CHINA BUILDS UP [entrenching?] ITS LINKS WID NORTH KOREA, as per Bilateral = Joint Economy + Infrastructure.

Lest we fergit, NORTH KOREA = "un-annexed" or "un-incorporated" Chinese province???
CHINA WILL CONTINUE DOING SO VEE DPRK UNTIL IT GETS BACK TAIWAN, + EVEN IFF IT DOES GET BACK TAIWAN BEIJING STILL WON'T ACCEPT ANY ANTI-CHINA UNIFIED INTER-KOREAN GOVT ON THE PENINSULA.

FYI CHINA is still routinely + intentionally violating Japan's 12-mile territorial limit wid its CMS, PLAN ships around the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus + increasingly around Okinawa. IMO ONE DAY ITS "SOFT ESCALATION" AGZ JAPAN WILL TURN "HARD" = MILITARILY VIOLENT OR BLOODY???

* Also from DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Reuters] CHINA INVOKED UNCLOS VERSUS JAPAN, BUT CHINA IGNORES
[i-g-n-o-r-e-s] THE PHILIPPINES' UNCLOS CLAIMS AGZ CHINA.

* SAME > CHINA MUST "STRIKE WHEN NECESSARY" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINESE SCHOLAR. Han Xudong, Professor of Chinese PLA's National Defense Univerity.

As per WORLD MIL FORUM, US THINK-TANK = denoted as arguing that the US can avoid a US-China mil conflict in the SCS, etc. iff the PHIL is willing to allow China "base rights" into WESTPAC + SOPAC vee PHIL islands, I.E. MILBASES ON PHIL ISLANDS BY + FOR THE EXCLUSIVE LT USE OF CHINA + PLA.

China to purchase key PHIL islands from Manila???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-17 01:21|| 2013-06-17 01:21|| Front Page Top

3 Nope. Different demographic structure.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-06-17 04:59|| 2013-06-17 04:59|| Front Page Top

4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTu9g54WMA

A netcentric CCC naval force that can pretty much blow anything out of the sky around it. Also has offensive cruise missiles of two different flavors one of which can carry a nuke warhead.

Posted by Shump Ebbinesing8470 2013-06-17 09:27|| 2013-06-17 09:27|| Front Page Top

5 Wouldn't blame them if they did. China has overplayed their North Korea card far to many time and the US is not particularly reliable these days. The WW2 generation is more or less gone and Japan is a modern nation with a stake in stability.

Even the serious discussion will probably get China to clamp down on North Korea.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-06-17 15:08|| 2013-06-17 15:08|| Front Page Top

6 * WAFF > [Al-Jazeera] JAPAN'S [Armed] FORCES + NAME TO CHANGE. PM SHINZO ABE IS PROPOSING TO RENAME THE SELF-DEFENSE FORCE IN MOVE THAT CAN GIVE FORCES NEW ROLE.

Constitutionally, wid simple new Govt legislation + espec an NOT-TOO-HARD-ON-THE-BUDGET/DEBT ERASURE(S), WHITE-OUT???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-17 22:42|| 2013-06-17 22:42|| Front Page Top

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