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Japan Dispatches F-15s, E-767s And P-3 Into China's Air Defense Zone, China Scrambles Su-30 ...
Zero Hedge ^ | November 29, 2013

Posted on 11/29/2013 6:40:17 AM PST by Zakeet

Complete Headline: Japan Dispatches F-15s, E-767s And P-3 Into China's Air Defense Zone, China Scrambles Su-30 In Response

China's escalation and re-escalation described in detail yesterday, has just been met with a corresponding re-re-escalation by Japan.

And now it's China's turn to, once again, respond. And then Japan and the US again, and so on, until someone gets hurt.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: adiz; china; japan; republicofkorea; war; waronterror
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To: Don Corleone
Kinda makes the liberals propaganda “ No Blood for oil “ when the USA goes to war for oil a mote point since Japan and China need that much important commodity.
It's only " Bad " when the USA needs it.

21 posted on 11/29/2013 7:50:44 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: AU72
" China set in place Obama with their money and is setting Obama up for another US stand-down with the hegemony of the East Pacific at stake. "
There now, fixed.
The Arabs and China helped put Obama in the Whitehut.
22 posted on 11/29/2013 7:52:10 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: GreyFriar

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.


23 posted on 11/29/2013 7:56:24 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

thank you for the information. Is “Senkaku” the Japanese name for the East China Sea?


24 posted on 11/29/2013 7:59:30 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar
That's what the reports have been calling it. I think the Chinese call it Diaoyutai.
25 posted on 11/29/2013 8:11:13 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$
Pretty!


26 posted on 11/29/2013 8:28:45 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: Venturer
A game of chicken between countries over some worthless islands.

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.

27 posted on 11/29/2013 8:38:02 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: headstamp 2
This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it

28 posted on 11/29/2013 8:55:57 AM PST by Bobalu (White Boy Think A Lot)
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To: Zakeet

The administration is looking for something to take the heat off of his healthcare problem, like wag the dog would work.


29 posted on 11/29/2013 9:08:05 AM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Zakeet
HONG KONG NEWSPAPER SAYS "FOREIGN INTRUDERS"

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.

30 posted on 11/29/2013 9:20:32 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: bunkerhill7

Nothing to worry about here. Caroline Kennedy’s in charge in Tokyo


31 posted on 11/29/2013 9:41:28 AM PST by ken5050 (Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
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To: Venturer

They aren’t worthless at all.
That is a huge untapped oil/energy field right there and whoever owns them owns that.


32 posted on 11/29/2013 9:47:51 AM PST by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: GreyFriar

This is an important and dangerous confrontation. If China shoots down anything, it could result in war.


33 posted on 11/29/2013 9:51:10 AM PST by zot
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To: All

Map of area in article. . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25126196


34 posted on 11/29/2013 9:59:21 AM PST by deks ("This nation is in grave jeopardy." Mark Levin, November 21, 2013)
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To: ken5050
Nothing to worry about here. Caroline Kennedy’s in charge in Tokyo

and Joe Biden is going over there next week :)

35 posted on 11/29/2013 10:01:36 AM PST by deks ("This nation is in grave jeopardy." Mark Levin, November 21, 2013)
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To: zot

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.


36 posted on 11/29/2013 10:10:30 AM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: RobinOfKingston

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.


37 posted on 11/29/2013 10:12:02 AM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: zot

obama is looking for something to distract against his disastrous domestic policy so he chooses a disastrous foreign policy..


38 posted on 11/29/2013 10:16:33 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Zakeet

China has apparently decided its population woes and all the problems due to overcrowding can be solved by nuclear war in the Far East.


39 posted on 11/29/2013 12:07:13 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: sunrise_sunset

Yes, the Chinese have rightly diagnosed Obama as a weak leader, so they are creating this opportunity to see how weak he is.


40 posted on 11/29/2013 12:50:24 PM PST by zot
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