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US, Japan running secret war games to prep for China-Taiwan conflict
Taiwan News ^ | 7/1/21 | Keoni Everington

Posted on 07/02/2021 11:13:25 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The U.S. and Japan are reportedly conducting secret war games in preparation for a potential military confrontation with China over Taiwan.

The Financial Times on Thursday (July 1) cited six sources as saying that the U.S. and Japan started preparing contingencies for a conflict with China since the last year of the Trump administration. This planning reportedly involves "top-secret tabletop war games and joint exercises in the South China and East China seas."

In the face of increased threats from China in 2019, Abe Shinzo expanded military training, and in 2020 war games and joint military training between the U.S. and Japan were stepped up by the Trump administration. The newspaper cited three sources as saying that this cooperation between the militaries of the two nations has continued under the Biden and Suga administrations.

(Excerpt) Read more at taiwannews.com.tw ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japan; taiwan; usa; wargames
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1 posted on 07/02/2021 11:13:25 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

It’s going to include a gay pride parade.


2 posted on 07/02/2021 11:14:10 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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“It’s going to include a gay pride parade.”

You win! Better than what I was going to post, and likely spot on.


3 posted on 07/02/2021 11:14:52 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

A normandy-style invasion of Taiwan is probably the last thing China will do.

They will tie Taiwan ever-closer economically, welcome and integrate Taiwanese Chinese on the mainland (many of whom are already there for business), foment chaos in some areas, promote certain Taiwan government people and celebrities, and isolate others.

Probably not unlike how the CIA manages countries like the Ukraine.


4 posted on 07/02/2021 11:19:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well, it isn’t SECRET anymore, now is it?


5 posted on 07/02/2021 11:19:12 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm having Uncle Toms Rice. It's like Uncle Bens but just a bit more racis'.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Not a secret now, huh? /s


6 posted on 07/02/2021 11:21:09 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Actually, I am hoping there are good men who are still serious about defending Freedom and not diversity.

So good for both countries if this helps.

The Japanese are a great ally. So are the South Koreans and Australians.

I hear the Philippines and Japan are also conducting allied war games.

There needs to be a strong, anti-Chicom alliance. Get Malaysia and Indonesia into the game, as well as India and Vietnam.

In my opinion, the main enemy nations are China, Russia and the Iranians. Too bad about the Russians, the Left in this country are forcing them to be against us.


7 posted on 07/02/2021 11:23:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

From the link in the OP, completely off topic...

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4236476

Pizza Hut Taiwan unleashes cilantro century egg pig’s blood cake pizza

“Pizza Hut wrote that although preserved eggs, pig’s blood cake, and cilantro may all seem to clash, “once melted mozzarella cheese ties them together, the explosion in your mouth is better than you had imagined.””

What the actual f. The post consumption explosion in my shorts will be more than I can imagine.


8 posted on 07/02/2021 11:26:59 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: BipolarBob
Thanks for posting this obvious reality!

Well, it isn’t SECRET anymore, now is it?

9 posted on 07/02/2021 11:33:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters! Who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Asians eat everything....

Oops..Does that make me racist to say that?
Yuck!


10 posted on 07/02/2021 11:35:09 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The PLAN is not worried about the CVN’s escorting Aegis destroyers - the PLAN will send in their fleet of container ships to attract the destroyers who will obligingly crash into them, leaving the CVNs exposed ... The on deck gay parades will terrify the first PLAN ships, but attrition will whittle the defense down to bare thongs.


11 posted on 07/02/2021 11:40:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PGR88

20 years ago a Taiwanese guy told me that the Chicoms would not invade, they would just lob rockets into every port in Taiwan, on a regular basis. They would also buy massive amounts of U.S. Treasury Bonds, and when the fireworks started, they would just call them in for redemption, if the U.S. interfered, and hamstring us, economically. Everything would be over in a few weeks.

I have seen nothing in the last two decades that makes me think he was wrong.


12 posted on 07/02/2021 11:50:58 AM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

That will be the Ten Minute War


13 posted on 07/02/2021 11:54:29 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: BipolarBob

A retired car club buddy was on Schwarzkopf’s staff and said when countries release “secret” information, it’s to alert the other side that they are ready for them. The idea is not to fight. So, if you tell the other side you’ve developed a radar that can see their stealth aircraft, then they can’t play their wargame and pretend nobody can see it and they’ll just wipe the board clean of your ships or planes. Virtually every “leak” is planned.

The companies I worked for sometimes put out press releases on their Jim-dandy new hardware and employees would complain that it was supposed to be secret. I was in the position to know that everything released was done so at the behest of the military. Every word of every article was approved before publication.


14 posted on 07/02/2021 11:59:50 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: jttpwalsh

Then we nationalize all Chinese holdings in the US


15 posted on 07/02/2021 12:00:48 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Asians eat everything....

Read my tagline.

16 posted on 07/02/2021 12:01:08 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm having Uncle Toms Rice. It's like Uncle Bens but just a bit more racis'.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

If they are serious, send a few thousand soldiers, construction and caving engineers, and a slew of heavily Suribachi type coast artillery to the Senkaku islands. Patrol around it with a couple of Soryu class subs. Have Lexus/Toyota assemble a few world class nukes in about 6 weeks.

Done.


17 posted on 07/02/2021 12:03:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Biden wants to ‘look tough’ while giving the Chinese everything they want... China has no problem putting off war with Taiwan until after the mid-terms.

I mean, come on man...

Our PC military can’t win a two bit war against third world hellholes... they damn sure can’t take on China - especially with Biden and Hunter at the helm


18 posted on 07/02/2021 12:04:15 PM PDT by GOPJ (ARSON isn't fire violence. RAPE isn't penis violence. Murder isn't gun violence.- Criminal violence )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Why do our formations all look heavy and slovenly, and foreign units like Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, all look fit and disciplined? And they are all young males.

It’s becoming embarrassing.

Just recently found out that the Marines in that movie “The Wind and the Lion, were all Spanish soldiers used as extras as a unit.

Our units need to get hard again. Push button has softened them.


19 posted on 07/02/2021 12:06:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: Gen.Blather

“car club buddy was on Schwarzkopf’s staff”

America’s last true General.


20 posted on 07/02/2021 12:08:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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