[GeronL]

China should back off the Senkaku and Japan should leave Dokdo alone in Korea.

[jtal]

We’re not helping! Enough!

[Bobalu]

Japan could reach military superpower status very quickly.

They are masters at tech such as cruise missiles and have an enormous stockpile of plutonium.

[ClearCase_guy]

China strikes me as something like czarist Russia, or the Austro-Hungarian empire. Big. Strong. Grand. And then a war comes along and they are shown to be a house of cards and they tear themselves apart from within.

If there is a fight, and if Japan comes out on top, I don't think China could handle that. It would be shattering.

[central_va]

Ruh roh, Flee Tlade bump.

[AU72]

The CHICOMS will calculate to the US election results. If Obama wins they have a little more time to change the correlation of forces in their favor.

If he loses their window for action shrinks.

[hinckley buzzard]

In WW II when the Germans decided they wanted to take Crete, the island was surrounded by the British Navy and held by a land garrison. The German invasion was by air alone--troops, supplies, fuel, vehicles--all brought in by air while punishing the surface ships of Britain from the air. Air superiority has pretty well trumped the Navy for such operations. So it all would depend on whose Air Force has the edge.

[llevrok]

....but not without U.S. help.

Don't count on it, Nippon-chama.(unless there are campaign funds available).

[Forgotten Amendments]

China and Japan don’t have neocons. They’re not going to fight.

[sickoflibs]

Maybe its time for Japan to change it’s constitution. China is the new 1930s Japan. If China invades its a disaster for O. Japan should tell them to f off.