[Tarpon]

Obama-commie says sure, lets divide up the world. Doesn’t want to offend his commie buds does he.

[tophat9000]

China is starting to talk a bit like 1930’s Japan...I expect China to start pitching an updated version of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”

[Wilderness Conservative]

Somehow I dont think the land of the rising sun will accept that without a fight.

[microgood]

Time for Japan to develop nukes.

[VeniVidiVici]

Obama truly is a gift from God for the Chinese.

[MSF BU]

Hawaii West? I’d like to know what our citizens in Guam think of this. I think Korea, Japan & Taiwan had better build some understanding about cooperative naval power. Come to think of it, I know there is little love lost between the Chinese and Vietnamese as well.

[Paul Ross]

Both the US and Japan, along with many other world powers, have aggressively expanded their maritime capabilities...

Japan has, to be sure. But the U.S. Navy has been imploding under first Clinton, then Bush, and now under Obama. We have seen the Navy dismantle and use for target practice all of its anti-submarine warfare ships (the Spruances) and retired its ASW planes (S3-Bs) end its air-superiority F-14's which are not replaceable by F-18s. And of course Obama ended production capability for the USAF F-22, which means that there can never be a naval version now.

[Thunder90]

And the Russians are going to claim the North Pacific with their growing navy (and the Atlantic, as they become the dominant European naval power)...

[prairiebreeze]

ping for AM

[Mike Darancette]

Chinese admiral had suggested to him that "the US, take Hawaii East and we, China, will take Hawaii West and the Indian Ocean. Then you will not need to come to the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean and we will not need to go to the Eastern Pacific."

Then how will China get there stuff here and how will we save China from Japan, again.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

So how’s that “free trade” thing working out?

America’s current trade deficit every month with the PRC is around 20 billion dollars.

The cost of a Reagan-class Carrier: 5 billion.

In other words, we are funding a future Chinese aircraft carrier.

EVERY WEEK.

It is idiocy, on a historic scale.

We are committing national suicide.

[greeneyes]

Time to allow Japan to re-arm enough to provide a great defense for Japan and Taiwan.

If Obama awards the high-speed rail contract to China, the damned Congress Critters better stop it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.