[Brilliant]

The Chinese remind me of the Japanese in the late 30's.

[Lancer_N3502A]

JSDF Air Force BUMP!

[rbg81]

I think the Japanese could kick China's a$$ if they wanted to. They are technically pacifist, but could become a nuclear power with the flip of a switch. Of course, if it goes nuclear all bets are off, but neither side is that foolish.

[Little Ray]

After Gojira (Godzilla), Mothra, Ghidra, Rhodan and all the rest, the PLA-AF should be a piece of cake!!!!

[Wiz]

ping

[Semper Paratus]

Japan will soon revise their stand on nuclear weapons.

[Gay State Conservative]

The West (and the world) will soon regret the day that two-thirds of the merchandise at Wal Mart,Best Buy and Radio Shack came to say "Made in China" on it.

Wasn't it Lenin who said that "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them"...?

[captain_dave]

All this talk of China expanding into the Pacific misses two important points:

China has no amphibious military capability and no aircraft carriers to provide air cover for an invasion. They can't even successfully invade Taiwan.

China is suffering from dissent and riots at home. What they can do is cause a lot of trouble.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Communism was not defeated in 1989 - 90- 91 with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, it only has taken on a new face and it only passed the baton onto China, and it's a new chapter in the battle with Communism.
The BIG RED MENACE is still among us.

[Lancer_N3502A]

I love a good thread.

I'm not suggesting China is gonna move tomorrow, they don't think that way. They're purely long term.

But...sometime down the road, when we got a Jimah Carter or Clinton in the office they might. And they're industrial/ship building capacity is enough to convert what ever they need in short order to make it all happen.

[Question_Assumptions]

We should sell Japan F-22s if they want them. Unlike the F-14s that we sold to Iran in the 1970s, we shouldn't have to worry about them falling into hostile hands.

[blackie]

What do you think, Jeff?

[Southack]

"The increased defensive posture reflects the growing tensions between Japan and China..."

Of course, but those incursions may also mean that China is testing Japan's response time in order to guage Taiwan's defenses (similar technology in place for both Japan and Taiwan)...or to make a political statement...for bargaining...for North Korean consumption...or a variety of hostile reasons that are more newsworthy than merely upping tensions with Japan itself.

[prairiebreeze]

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