Posted on 11/29/2013 6:40:17 AM PST by Zakeet
I work for a big oil US oil company. Senkaku HAS oil it just hasn’t been made public yet and the size of the field has yet to be determined. The Japanese are trying not to tip their hand and the Chi-coms got onto it. As is typical with the Chinese they are both playing chess and trying to lock up oil reserves.
thank you for the information. Is “Senkaku” the Japanese name for the East China Sea?
China is flexing it’s muscles.
The islands themselves are not the prize; the wealth of the sea and under the seabed around them are the prize.
The administration is looking for something to take the heat off of his healthcare problem, like wag the dog would work.
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=43781&icid=a&d_str=20131129
Saber rattling in state media over foreign intruders in air defense zone (11-29 12:36)
China's state media called for “timely countermeasures without hesitation'' if Japan violates the air defense zone, after Beijing sent fighter jets to patrol the area. Japan and South Korea both said Thursday they disregarded the air defense identification zone that Beijing declared last weekend. Earlier US B-52 bombers also entered the area, AFP reports.
Beijing is facing mounting internal pressure to assert itself. The Global Times newspaper, which often takes a nationalistic tone, said in an editorial today: “We should carry out timely countermeasures without hesitation against Japan when it challenges China's newly declared ADIZ. “If Tokyo flies its aircraft over the zone, we will be bound to send our plane to its ADIZ.''
The paper, said: “If the trend continues, there will likely be frictions and confrontations and even tension in the air like in the Cold War era between the US and the Soviet Union. We are willing to engage in a protracted confrontation with Japan.''
But it shied away from threatening Washington, which sent giant Stratofortress bombers into the zone, issuing an mistakable message.
“If the US does not go too far, we will not target it in safeguarding our air defense zone,'' the paper said, adding that Australia could be “ignored'' and that South Korea “understands'' as it has tensions of its own with Japan.
The media rhetoric came after Chinese planes conducted air patrols Thursday as “a defensive measure and in line with international common practices'', Xinhua quoted People's Liberation Army Air Force spokesman Shen Jinke as saying. Defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said Thursday that Japan established its ADIZ in 1969, so Tokyo had “no right to make irresponsible remarks'' about China's.
“If there are to be demands for a withdrawal, then we invite the Japanese side to first withdraw its air defense identification zone, and China may reconsider after 44 years,'' he said.
Nothing to worry about here. Caroline Kennedy’s in charge in Tokyo
They aren’t worthless at all.
That is a huge untapped oil/energy field right there and whoever owns them owns that.
This is an important and dangerous confrontation. If China shoots down anything, it could result in war.
and Joe Biden is going over there next week :)
China is trying to find a wedge between the Japanese / American alliance. And they have rightly diagnosed Obama as a weak leader. The U.S. should have declared these islands as under Japanese control and not merely ‘administration’. That left an opening for China.
The main problem for China is none of their neighbors like them and they will over reach. Overall, it looks like they are itching for a war. And I’m not sure the American people or its president have the backbone to commit to their treaty obligations.
It’s not the oil or anything like that. It’s purely a territorial buffer, the first step to kicking the U.S. out of Asia.
obama is looking for something to distract against his disastrous domestic policy so he chooses a disastrous foreign policy..
China has apparently decided its population woes and all the problems due to overcrowding can be solved by nuclear war in the Far East.
Yes, the Chinese have rightly diagnosed Obama as a weak leader, so they are creating this opportunity to see how weak he is.
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