Posted on 09/19/2021 9:07:02 AM PDT by hapnHal
CHINA has claimed Japan is "preparing for war" as it stages its first major military exercised for nearly 30 years.
The defence drills stoked already rising tensions between the neighbours as a dispute over a chain of strategic islands threatens to escalate into open conflict.
Beijing's ships and planes have made dozens of incursions this year close to the uninhabited Senkaku islands - known as Diaoyu in China.
Now in a surprise move, Tokyo is pushing back at increasing aggression and plans new bases to defend the islands.
It has bought new F-35 jets, converted ships into aircraft carriers and is building new destroyers and submarines.
And this week nationwide exercises involving 100,000 troops from all units of the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force kicked off in a huge show of force.
The drills - also involving 20,000 vehicles, 120 aircraft and a US troop landing ship - are the first on this scale since 1993.
According to Japanese media, the drills are in direct response to “China’s ramped-up regional assertiveness”.
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Good, they should be.
Gee, i wonder why. With Bid. As your ally, it’s CYA time.
Just because China has been threatening war doesn’t mean Japan has the right to prepare for one. 🤡
The J6 Rally was a bust for O’Biden he needs something to pivot to!
A bunch of Chinese Generals were standing around saying, “We’re afraid of Japan - they’re thinking of war...or taking over Hong Kong... so one of the Generals walked off and called his counterpart in Japan and warned him..,
I’m sure Xi and the Chinese gave Milley Wong a pass...
Think Bid. should call Milley on this matter?
The chicoms have long memories and they do not want a militarized Japan.
Japan should release this statement:
Yes, we are preparing for war. A war that we hope will never happen. And the best way to ensure that it doesn’t happen is to be prepared for it. If our nation conducting a military exercise constitutes us “preparing for a war” then what do the many exercises by China and the many violations of other nations’ territory constitute?
I’m thinking that China is still sore about the rape of Nanking and haven’t really forgotten about it . . .
“This farcical show of force was only to be expected. The Great Powers flexing their military muscles like so many impotent beach boys.”—— Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.
I hope Japan has a cruise nuke programmed to go straight up Xi’s Obamahole.
Wonder how long it will be before China puts two divisions of assault troops on Taiwan’s shores maybe even some Islands owned by Japan???
Japan preparing for war? They’d be fools not to. How does that old saying go? Si vis pacem, para bellum, I think. (Russian was never my strong point.)
LOL!
Does China have any allies in the region, or have they thoroughly pissed off every one around them?
The Japanese would win. They have a history of great warriors and it doesn’t matter if the Chinese have them outnumbered.
Think this might be a reason for the shortage of auto parts coming from Japan and Taiwan? Yes, there is a shortage of auto parts.
Right now, IMO, they cant win a war with the Asian region in the area.
But, again IMO, they could win one with us if fought correctly.
That is how bad our military is now under this mental midget we have for a president.
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