Posted on 11/28/2013 11:32:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
TOKYO China sent its fighter jets into its newly declared air defense zone Thursday on what state media called the countrys first air patrol since it declared control of the airspace. The announcement came hours after Japan and South Korea sent their own military planes into the airspace over the East China Sea, testing Chinas resolve to enforce its declaration.
The announcement of the flights came just days after unarmed American B-52 bombers flew through the same zone in defiance of China. Beijing later said that it had monitored the American bombers but had chosen not to take action even though the planes did not tell the Chinese they were coming, as the government now demands.
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Are they pin-pricking, taunting the giant?
Absolutely, taunting the paper giant. China doesn’t dare fire on those foreign planes. Just think of the turmoil when worldwide commerce stops buying Chinese goods during an event like that.
Japan meeting with Russia about mutual security.
Korea flying with japan.
Vellllly intelesting times...!
“Are they pin-pricking, taunting the giant?”
Exactly. China called our bluff to see how we would react, in fact how SE Asia would react. That is why Korea and Japan are involved.
China found out where these countries stand. China isn’t ready to challenge the Pacific powers yet.
I think SE Asia refers to anything south of China.
Well right now, we import so much which is made in China, a significant amount of that turmoil would be in America.
America needs to bring back American production, of a whole lot of items.
Now.
Manufacturing that has left is not coming back.
new manufacturing might take its place, but what is gone is gone. Sorry.
America needs to bring back American production, of a whole lot of items.
It left because the conditions that made it possible changed. The plethora of governmental agencies and labor and environmental rules made it leave. To add insult the government will provide lawyers for protected classes of employees to sue you for imagined or made-up racism or sexism or whatever. Change all of that and it will flood back. Until then, it stays where it is.
American bombers, Chinese fighters, Japanese and Korean aircraft loitering in the same area, let us hope this doesn’t last long enough for someone to make an oops.
Well...you can continue to support Free Trade with Communist China...or bring the jobs back to America.
Cringing Negativism Network is correct. Sadly...we have too many fools pushing failed economic theory over national and international security
You continue to support Communism and financial repression in the United States.
You could support removal of regulation, reduction of taxation, tort reform and the removal of punitive, arbitrary despotic Government.
But you don’t. You continue to agitate for a state monopoly on foreign trade.
This didn’t work for the Soviet Union - why do you believe it would start working now?
I was a little surprised to see that. The Koreans want a piece of those guys? Wow.
My opinion of the ROKs just went up again.
Don't be too sure of that. When Lt. Commander Edwin Layton was sent over by Admiral Kimmel's headquarters (where he was Kimmel's intelligence officer) to visit Admiral Pye, commander of the Battle Force (BB's), aboard USS California, on the eve of the Pearl Harbor raid, Pye's take on the Japanese evolutions toward Malaya and the intelligence on the "missing carriers" (the Kido Butai that sank Pye's flagship about 16 hours later) was something like, "Oh, they wouldn't dare attack us -- we're too big and strong." It was an opinion shared by many.
Strange how things change...
One time, we were allied with the Chinese against the Japanese...
Then, we were fighting the Koreans AND the Chinese, and the Japanese were our allies...
Now, the Koreans and the Japanese are our allies against the Chinese...
BUT.. we have a _resident with the same Comradely Ideology as the ChiComs...
Go figure...
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