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China in East China Sea
exercises : The exercises are aimed at "sharpening response to
emergencies in missions to safeguard territorial sovereignty", state-run Xinhua
news agency said. They involve 11 ships and eight aircraft, including vessels
from marine surveillance and fisheries agencies. The agencies' ships had been
"harassed" while in disputed waters, it said.
China said the exercises would take place on Friday, but gave no details of the location in the East China Sea. State-run CCTV showed members of the Chinese military, as well as footage of a frigate, fighter jets and helicopters. China, Japan and Taiwan all claim the islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Japan controls the islands, which lie south of Okinawa and north of Taiwan.
* How about the fact that
this is most likely a warning to an upcoming exercise by Japan and the US on
attacking a small island. The small island of course would represent Senkaku as
the dispute over the island chain and the mineral rich China seas continues to
ratchet up.
Japanese, US troops mull
drill to take island: The exercise, part of broader joint maneuvers to start in early November, would use an uninhabited island in Okinawa, southernmost Japan, Jiji Press and Kyodo News agencies quoted unidentified sources as saying yesterday. The drill would involve Japanese and US troops making an amphibious and airborne landing to retake the island using boats and helicopters, Kyodo said. Japan and China have long been at loggerheads over the sovereignty of rocky outcrops in the East China Sea known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China. The Tokyo-administered island chain is uninhabited, but is thought to be sitting on top of valuable resources.
Remember the "incident spring 2010 with the 10 Chinese warships including
destroyers a
nd submarines off Okinawa? This put a new light on things to me. Look at the big picture once again. Japan has got to be rethinking their constant effort to get the US Military to leave Okinawa.
nd submarines off Okinawa? This put a new light on things to me. Look at the big picture once again. Japan has got to be rethinking their constant effort to get the US Military to leave Okinawa.
It will behoove Japan
to have us there. This puts a whole new light on China's turn around on Iran,
their monetary finagling, and their last minute turn around on whether or not to
attend the nuclear summit. This latest row really has to have Japan
rethinking.
Remember Just prior to this sudden mood and cooperation change with the US we
were being threatened for arming Taiwan, for meeting with the Dalai lama in
Washington, and threatened with slowing our economic recovery. I fell for the
line of thought that the so called experts were floating that China realized
that if we go down so do they.
Cooperation between China Russia and the US is critical and it just keeps getting worse! Obama was right to say our ties will shape the future of the 21st century. The US and China are eying each other and moving very cautiously as they try to strike a balance.
A few years back I began to view our relationship with China as the most important in the world. Not because we drove each others economy but because if at the time with Bush's instigation to war with Russia China due to the fact of how our 2 economies are so intertwined that if something happened China would side with us not Russia. I never imagined that today problems between China and Japan would be the issue.
As we discussed there have been at least four cases of groups of Chinese military ships crossing through the area of Okinawa since November 2008, first 4 ships then 6 then 8 and now 10 including destroyers and submarines. That case appeared to be the first involving surfaced submarines. The group of 10 ships, including the submarines, was observed about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Okinawa in international waters.
Two missile destroyers and three frigate ships from the same group were spotted participating in a flight exercise of carrier-based helicopters April 7-9, 20010, the Defense Ministry's Joint Staff Office said in a statement The war ships were in international waters but close to Okinawa and Japan was not notified.
That area as you may know has natural resources under the ocean and islands claimed by both Nations. It is important that we stay in Okinawa as China plays a more important role in Asia and around the world as she gains strength militarily and economically as we just discussed.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com
Cooperation between China Russia and the US is critical and it just keeps getting worse! Obama was right to say our ties will shape the future of the 21st century. The US and China are eying each other and moving very cautiously as they try to strike a balance.
A few years back I began to view our relationship with China as the most important in the world. Not because we drove each others economy but because if at the time with Bush's instigation to war with Russia China due to the fact of how our 2 economies are so intertwined that if something happened China would side with us not Russia. I never imagined that today problems between China and Japan would be the issue.
As we discussed there have been at least four cases of groups of Chinese military ships crossing through the area of Okinawa since November 2008, first 4 ships then 6 then 8 and now 10 including destroyers and submarines. That case appeared to be the first involving surfaced submarines. The group of 10 ships, including the submarines, was observed about 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of Okinawa in international waters.
Two missile destroyers and three frigate ships from the same group were spotted participating in a flight exercise of carrier-based helicopters April 7-9, 20010, the Defense Ministry's Joint Staff Office said in a statement The war ships were in international waters but close to Okinawa and Japan was not notified.
That area as you may know has natural resources under the ocean and islands claimed by both Nations. It is important that we stay in Okinawa as China plays a more important role in Asia and around the world as she gains strength militarily and economically as we just discussed.
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com
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