Posted on 09/15/2016 7:26:12 PM PDT by Mariner
Japan will step up its activity in the contested South China Sea through joint training patrols with the United States and bilateral and multilateral exercises with regional navies, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said on Thursday.
Inada said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, that Japan's increased engagement in the area, where Japan shares U.S. concerns about China's pursuit of extensive territorial claims, would include capacity building for coastal nations.
Japan also has its own dispute with China over territory in the East China Sea.
Inada said that if the world condoned attempts to change the rule of law and allowed “rule bending” to succeed, the "consequences could become global."
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And, they could likely defeat the Chinese navy in a short but exciting engagement.
Certainly their CAP would be superior with F-15s.
Oh, and the Japanese have a proven tradition.
This ain’t your father’s China, ain’t your father’s Japan.
China’s military expenditures have been double digits for a couple of decades. They are stronger than ya think.
I thought it was going to be Robotech.
Mid eighties child here!
The Chinese have never been tested.
Much more formidable than in WWII. None the less, it would be very ugly.
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