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2014-07-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan PM to Overturn Pacifist Defence Policy

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-01 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 If he succeeds, I expect Japan will have the material to construct a nuclear weapon three days later. They won't assemble them -- yet -- but the parts will be manufactured and stored somewhere underground. They'll be assembled within hours, once the time comes that Japan needs them.

I still say we need to sell Japan a couple of used US aircraft carriers. That would put a crimp in China's expansionist policies. It would also require someone not quite as much a wimp as the current occupant of the White House.

The world is NOT a "safe place". The only guarantee of individual freedom is enough strength to guarantee it. This is a lesson the Europeans, especially, need to learn. I think Japan has gotten the message.

Posted by Old Patriot 2014-07-01 13:42|| 2014-07-01 13:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I expect Japan will have the material to construct a nuclear weapon three days later

You mean 'Japan will produce' the material.

I surmise that they already have it.

Posted by Pappy 2014-07-01 14:51|| 2014-07-01 14:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Finally. Abe has guts!

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-01 15:15|| 2014-07-01 15:15|| Front Page Top

#4 And as far as aircraft carriers, they're perfectly capable of cranking out 3 or 4 in the next five years that might surprise everyone.

Posted by Shipman 2014-07-01 15:17|| 2014-07-01 15:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Long past time for this. Especially with the US going all wobbly defending allies.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-01 18:22|| 2014-07-01 18:22|| Front Page Top

#6 IMO there will be a military conflict between China + Japan, as ... ..

> Both China + Japan see themselves as Asia's #1.
> China particularly fears a rearmed Japan, espec as armed wid Nuclear Weapons.
> As we see in the SCS + IOR, China is working hard to acquire Superpower/US-style "strategic access" for the PLA at + beyond the "First Island Chain". CHINA WELL-RECOGNIZES THAT TO DO THE SAME IN NE ASIA WILL MEAN DE FACTO MIL CONFRONTATION + WAR.

Pragmatically, it is to China's advantage to unilaterally or preemptively strike before Japan, etal. acquire NucWeaps, + before US-led GMD-TMD is permanently entrenched in East Asia.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Global Times] PLA COULD DEFEAT JSDF IN ANY MILITARY CONFLICT - JAPANESE MEDIAS.

For the reasons I have stated or described above -JAPAN HAS NEITHER THE FIGHTING MANPOWER, AIRPOWER, NOR ESPEC THE NUKES THAT CHINA DOES.

Perhaps most importantly, China covertly may have Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama on SSSSHHHHHH ....CCCCCCCCCC ITS SIDE???

* GLOBAL NATION PH > WHAT "JAPAN'S "COLLECTIVE SELF-DEFENSE" MEANS TO THE PHILIPPINES?

Japan mil intervention in the SCS, NOT just US.

* SAME [repost] > WEST PHILIPPINE SEA CHINA'S BEST SHIELD AGZ US, PAPER SAYS.

* PHIL STAR > EDITORIAL: [PAF] NO LONGER ALL AIR, NO FORCE.

* TOPIX > HAYATAMA: CHINA'S GROWING ASIA-PACIFIC INFLUENCE "IRREVERSIBLE".

China rising to East Asia + WESTPAC Empire???

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [GMA News] FA-50'S [SoKor = 2015?] WILL MAKE PH AIR DEFENCE EFFECTIVE, AQUINO SAYS.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA'S DF-41 ICBM CAN WIPE OUT THREE [US] CITIES IN ATTACK.

China's just sayin'.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA SHOULD NOT ABANDON THE RYUKYUS! CHINA'S NEW "10-DASH-LINE" VERTICAL MAP DOES NOT INDICATE ITS SOVEREIGNTY OVER OKINAWA + ARCHIPELAGO.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-07-01 22:51|| 2014-07-01 22:51|| Front Page Top

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