Is China Burning?

Forbes ^ | 9/23/2012 | Gordon G. Chang

[neverdem]

Chinese streets were quiet today after anti-Japan protests, many of them violent, rocked more than a 100 cities last week. Large demonstrations continued through Tuesday, the 81st anniversary of Japan’s invasion of Manchuria.

The disturbances, triggered by a territorial dispute over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, are commonly described as the worst anti-Japan riots to hit the country since at least 2005, and they may have even been more destructive than that.

In any event, the damage to Japan’s business interests in China was substantial. More than a dozen Japanese companies halted operations in the country as fire bombings, sabotage, and looting took their toll. Manufacturers Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, Komatsu, Hitachi, and Canon shuttered plants. Panasonic locked the doors of a factory after employees broke windows, ruined equipment, and set fires...

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Today, however, the Chinese economy is in obvious distress, with fewer analysts buying Beijing’s claims that the country is growing in the high single digits. Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research, for example, thinks China’s growth rate is only 1.6%, and it could even be lower than that. In this environment, even minor disruptions could have a “tipping point” effect...

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In fact, Beijing officials have talked about taking the Ryukyus after they get the Senkakus. And we should not think the Chinese are limiting their anger to the Japanese. Last week’s events have been compared, in their intensity and their aims, to the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion, which began just at the end of the 19th century.

That, unfortunately, is a historical parallel we should remember. Rioters on Tuesday attacked and damaged the car of American ambassador Gary Locke while he was in it.

China at the moment is unstable, and that puts foreign businesses there—not to mention the Chinese economy—at risk.

[Jeff Head]

The Chinese have no aircraft ready for that carrier yet. They have six Prototype J-15s which are a modernized indegenous version of the Russian SU-33...but they are not production aircraft.

it will be two years before they have enough aircraft to form an air wing. Then they have to get trained and proficient...which will be a long road. 3-4 years befoere they are ready to show the flag in any manner desiring to intimidate or threaten anyone with that vessel.

Now, I expect they will take a good will cruise to show the thing off...but they are not ready in the least for any military type ops for it yet.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the post, Jeff.

Sorta feels like 1937, doesn't it?

[Jeff Head]

That’s exactly what my Dad used to tell me in the early 2000s before he passed in 2004. He was a Combat Naval Officer vet of the PTO in WW II. Said what China was doing with their naval buildup reminded him of what Japan and then Germany did in the mid to late 1930s in the buildup to World War II.

I wrote a book about how it might go of it came to open Warfare:

Dragon’s Fury: World War against America and the West
http://www.dragonsfuryseries.com

[1010RD]

And the smart money has been exporting its wealth and children to the West.

[Tainan]

This is Taipei Taiwan Saturday 22 Sept 2013.

AIT issues safety notification to US citizens
"The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) has issued a safety alert to U.S. citizens in Taiwan, warning them of possible violence during demonstrations in Taipei this weekend. Some U.S. citizens living in Taiwan said that it is the first time they have ever received such warnings from the AIT. The warning comes in the wake of widespread protests by Muslims against the United States over an anti-Islam film, and the Diaoyutais sovereignty dispute between Japan, China and Taiwan."

The Taiwan newspaper, China Post, refuses to allow comments on this article.

[Kickass Conservative]

>”This is Taipei Taiwan Saturday 22 Sept 2013”<

Wow, I must have had a heck of a Nap. Who's the President now?

[Tainan]

The KMT party president is Ma...Ma Ying-jeou (Ma ing joe). But this has little relevance to him. He is a very good guy. He is, unfortunately, trapped in a confederation of fools, ignorant crooks and self-serving political hacks.

Those individuals pictured are obviously not native Taiwan people. Thus, they are in direct violation of a number of immigration laws. Laws that someone has gave the order to ignore.
This kind of stuff has not happened here before. IMO, it is orchestrated by local immans and agitators.

[Kickass Conservative]

I appreciate the response. Islam is like Liberalism, it infects everything it touches.

I was originally just posting because of the (2013) date attached to the photo. If it's 2013, either Obama is still ruining, oops running things or President Romney is trying to clean up the mess. #;*)

[Tainan]

Uh Oh...the date thing would be the result of my clumsy fingers hitting the wrong key....still "2012" here.
My mistake.

[Varsity Flight]

“And nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom....”