[hosepipe]

Japan thinking it’s the Asian Switzerland is a mistake...
They had better get ready the next Tsunami may not be from an earthquake..

The next drown a chinaman technology needs to be developed..

[Jeff Head]

Next to our own, the Japanese Navy, (Japanese Martitime Self-fDefense Force) is the largest and best trained navy in the PAcific. They have about 50 very well designed and new destroyers and frigates, two flat deck, large helo carriers that coudl probably embark Joint Strike ifghters if they had too, and they are building two even larger carriers that will definitely be JSF capable.

They have six very good AEGIS destoryers modeled after our Burke's and they have upgraded seversal of them to BMD (BAllistic Missile Defense) capable.

Now, they are worried about China, because the Chinese growth is far outstripping their own and the PLAN will overtake and pass them. That is why the US shift to the Pacific is so welcome to them, the South Koreans, the republic of China on Taiwan, the Philippines (where, BTW, we have announced that Subic Bay and Clark airfied willbe reopened as major US bases), and Australia. India likes to see it too and is forging much closer ties to us than they have had in the past.

It is all working together as a contain China strategy and I hope we keep it up. The best thing we can do is get our economic house in order too and stop feeding the beast.