That's good that we're pulling back.. no. Wait. They mean pulling back on our defense not pulling back free traders providing Red China with billions in investments, technology, know how . . . .
What’s amusing is that journalists are focusing on Japan’s supposed militarization, when Japan’s defense spending remains stuck at 1% of GDP and, in absolute terms, is less than 1/3 of China’s number.
Revelation 9
15And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. 17And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.…
Ping
Duh, of course the global free traders who strip mined our economy and shipped it to China never saw it coming (sarcasm).
And the US Congress does what? Nada.
China’s attempt to take the Senkaku Islands will be launched from THIS airbase:
Two large hardened aircraft shelters are perched atop the camouflaged area on the Northeast extreme of the base —notice the dark ovoid structures:
There are also a number of J-20’s and ground vehicles parked at the west end of the strip.
This base has lots of skirting for transport a/c during a surge.
Since the Yaehama Islands (which are uncontested Japanese territory nearby) include SEVEN airfields it is HIGHLY LIKELY that a PRC play for the Senkakus will also involve Chinese occupation of 1 or more of the 7 islands in the Yaehama island chain, about 35 miles from Taiwan.
Some experts also think China may also take Okinawa itself, though the chances of that are a little lower.
The interest we pay on the debt the Chinese own pays for their military, then some.
Go ahead Barry—give some third world s***hole another billion or two! Ukraine recently, right?