Posted on 02/08/2014 5:43:28 PM PST by traumer
Washington – Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Friday that the United States would defend Japan against attack, even in conflicts involving islands claimed by China and Taiwan, as tensions continue to boil between the Asian powers.
Kerry, who said he would visit China next week, met in Washington with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and reaffirmed the 1960 treaty that commits the United States to protect its ally.
“That includes with respect to the South China Sea,” he said, before correcting himself to say the East China Sea, where China and Japan have conflicting claims.
Fears of conflict rose in November when China imposed an air defense identification zone over much of the East China Sea. Beijing says it now requires notification from planes crossing the Senkaku Islands, long administered by Tokyo.
“The United States neither recognizes nor accepts China’s declared East China Sea ADIZ and the United States has no intention of changing how we conduct operations in the region,” Kerry said.
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I think that Prince of Space will also get involved.
Oh I was ‘there’. I was there when a 3 star told us they thought NK was ready to come across the DMZ and to expect 75% causalities.
There is no strong nation today, just a bunch of fairly strong ones and a weakly led US. Add in a bunch of smaller very nervous countries who are trying to protect themselves and their resources.
If Japan is attacked, Kerry will condemn the action in the strongest terms. China better watch out, considering what Obama did to the nerve gassers in Syria and the murderers in Benghazi.
The world is not in a room filled with gasoline while the two sides hold matches, like it was.
No its in a room filled with death worshipers holding lit matches while a couple of semi-sane people argue about meaningless trivia.
I’m shocked, really.
I don’t know what that means.
If you like your Japan, you can keep your Japan...
Yeah, just like he’s defending our southern border and our Atlantic coast.
Now, let’s see...
Obama promised to defend Israel.
He has made Israel an international pariah.
Obama promised to defend Iraq.
He didn’t.
Obama promised to defend Afghanistan.
He hasn’t.
Now Obama is making more promises about America’s protection. Does anyone believe Obama?
I certainly don’t! Why does anyone?
That is the problem. China might put zero to the test. What would zero lose? He doesn’t care about our military. we have Iran heading for the coast on the atlantic. China could easily test us in the pacific. Where do our made in China loyalties lie? Lay? whichever.
Did you catch the story on 0bama telling Japan to give back the plutonium about a week ago?
Now there are a lot more matches.
Not at all, the world is calmer than it was during the Cold War, and small wars don’t equal the sword of total destruction that was hanging over civilization when the stand off was between the free world and the communist world.
I’d take commies over jahadi’s any day. You also overlook hindsight. Turns out the commies didn’t believe in self destruction and the jahadis do..
It seems that everyone has forgotten the Cold War already, and all the millions of deaths and constant wars, and the ever present possibility of instant nuclear annihilation of civilization, and even nuclear winter.
Even our peacetime losses for the military, numbered in the thousands annually.
Hope he’s not going to start “drawing lines” again.
LOL! OH MAN I remember that movie was goof by Mystery Sciecnce theatre 3000 gang LOL!
I don’t agree.
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