Posted on 09/24/2012 12:25:10 PM PDT by 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 Japans 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 Japans 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 Beijings claims that the country is growing in the high single digits. Charles Dumas of Lombard Street Research, for example, thinks Chinas 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 weeks 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 therenot to mention the Chinese economyat risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
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.
Sorta feels like 1937, doesn't it?
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
And the smart money has been exporting its wealth and children to the West.
Wow, I must have had a heck of a Nap. Who's the President now?
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. #;*)
“And nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom....”
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