Posted on 11/14/2011 9:53:40 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Japanese Self-Defense Forces’ (SDF) reconnaissance flights over waters near China have increased sharply. Japan’s SDF scrambled fighters 83 times in the first half of the year to investigate China’s military aircraft. During the first nine months of 2011 the number of such flights increased 44 percent from the same period last year, Yang Yujun, a spokesman at China’s National Defense Ministry said in comments carried by the official China Daily. SDF warships and planes are enhancing spy activities in the East China Sea, interfering with Chinese military exercises and pose a threat to China’s military ships and aircraft, he said. Yang called on Japan to stop scrambling fighters to intercept Chinese planes, warning that this was the cause of air and maritime safety problems, and had severely disturbed military drills.
Japan has the right to self defense, and that includes investigative flights over international areas.
/johnny
Tokyo has every right to be suspicious of Chinese actions in the East and South China Seas.
pei-ping
FK Chicoms
So... what are the Chicoms going to do about it? Start shooting the SDF planes down... or attempting to?
I suppose if they do that, the SDF might feel obligated to fire back, and then things could get interesting very fast.
Methinks the Chicoms are spoiling for a war of global conquest, and Barry Hussein the quisling King is gutting our military and economy for them in preparation for it.
He probably has the surrender documents all printed up and ready to sign.
How the communists and muslims are going to divvy up the spoils remains to be seen - it will probably look somewhat like what Hitler and Tojo had planned for us after WW-II in the event they had won.
When Israel and Iran get into it, it may very well set off a global chain reaction similar to what started WW-I. That could happen any day now.
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