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1 posted on 11/20/2020 10:27:27 AM PST by Kaslin
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"President-elect Biden gave me a commitment that Article 5 of the US-Japan security treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands," said a delighted Suga.

Uhh... excuse me? Is he allowed to promise to shine the shoes of a world leader at this point? He's not president of his own mind, let alone the USA.

2 posted on 11/20/2020 10:31:01 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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This diplomatic clash comes as Henry Kissinger was warning the Bloomberg Economic Forum: "America and China are now drifting increasingly toward confrontation, and they're conducting their diplomacy in a confrontational way. ... The danger is that some crisis will occur that will go beyond rhetoric into actual military conflict."

That's what the 97 year-old Henry Kissinger said?

I couldn't understand him when he was 47 years old.

3 posted on 11/20/2020 10:32:21 AM PST by FreeReign
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Biden will do jack sh** like his ex boss Hussein did when Syria crossed the ‘red line’.


4 posted on 11/20/2020 10:32:55 AM PST by libh8er
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[Biden promised to repair relations with America’s allies. And he appears to have gone some distance to do so in the congratulatory phone call he received from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan.

According to Suga, during the brief call, Biden said Article V of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty of 1960 covers the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, islands Japan controls but China claims as its own.

“President-elect Biden gave me a commitment that Article 5 of the US-Japan security treaty applies to the Senkaku Islands,” said a delighted Suga. And what does Article V commit us to?

“Each Party recognizes that an armed attack against either Party in the territories under the administration of Japan would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger...”

Message: The U.S. will treat a Chinese attempt to take the Senkakus, tiny rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea, as an attack on the USA, and America will fight China to secure Japan’s right to keep the islands.

Biden has removed any ambiguity that may have existed and given Tokyo a U.S. war guarantee that covers the Senkakus. ]


This matches the commitment Trump gave to the Japanese.

https://thediplomat.com/2017/05/bolstering-the-u-s-commitment-to-the-senkaku-islands/

Unexpected, coming from Biden, and Trump’s still fighting the election out in the courts. Of course, words and actions are different things. We’ll see what happens when Xi probes Biden’s level of commitment to the Senkakus the way he’s probed India’s borders.


6 posted on 11/20/2020 10:36:57 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Warning? As in “Alright, chump - we gave you what you wanted. Time to pay the vig.”


7 posted on 11/20/2020 10:38:36 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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They can send Biden animal crackers and it will have the same effect.


8 posted on 11/20/2020 10:39:38 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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The era of "one country, two systems" for Hong Kong, dating to the transfer of sovereignty by Great Britain, appears to be over. The dissidents and demonstrators who filled the streets just months ago appear to have been routed, and the city's future looks less like the Hong Kong of yesterday than the Beijing Tiananmen Square of tomorrow.

There. Fixed.

10 posted on 11/20/2020 10:42:19 AM PST by null and void (Rob a bank or steal an election, and get caught, do you get to keep the money or the votes?)
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Caught between a vicious, atheistic Chinaman and a righteously pissed off Stable Genius Patriot.

It’s gotta suck.


11 posted on 11/20/2020 10:45:45 AM PST by BusterDog
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Biden and his broken son are owned.


12 posted on 11/20/2020 10:46:20 AM PST by Irenic
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US under Biden will buckle. All the large corporations want China for a market.


13 posted on 11/20/2020 10:46:21 AM PST by setter
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China will blackmail Ol’ Joe into anything they want.
They paid big money to him and expect a return on investment.


15 posted on 11/20/2020 10:50:03 AM PST by Vinnie
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Although I love Taiwan, I wouldn’t want to be living there right now. They are right in the crosshairs, a Biden U.S. will don nothing if China invades.


16 posted on 11/20/2020 10:53:35 AM PST by kaehurowing
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“Biden promised to repair relations with America’s allies.” = send more money and jobs overseas.

Democrat are traitors.


17 posted on 11/20/2020 10:54:07 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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The rest of our manufacturing will be going to China over 8 years of China Joe and the Hoe.


18 posted on 11/20/2020 11:08:16 AM PST by cp124 (Time for a new America.)
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biden never met a war he didn’t like. If biden becomes President, we shall go to war—somewhere in the world!!!!

STOP THE STEAL!!!!


19 posted on 11/20/2020 11:25:06 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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The world is more peaceful without Biden in it.


20 posted on 11/20/2020 11:30:29 AM PST by HollyB
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So as we tell you Slow Joe or we’ll stop paying you to do our bidding


21 posted on 11/20/2020 11:36:53 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To me “America First” also means “rebuilding America”.


23 posted on 11/20/2020 11:45:49 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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Lol. The Japanese actually believe a RAT promise. Lol. Boy are they in for it.


25 posted on 11/20/2020 11:52:32 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Let Japan fight China for those rocks in the ocean.

No American should be sent to fight for them.


28 posted on 11/20/2020 12:02:12 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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