[kristinn]

We still owe the ChiComs for the EP-3 takedown twelve years ago.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Note to America.

Bring back American factories, and stop supporting this regime so darn extensively.

Buy American.

[central_va]

Free Trade™ the gift that keeps on giving.

[nathanbedford]

Don't worry, the man who managed the wind down of Iraq and Afghanistan, the revolution in Egypt, the fiasco in Benghazi, the red line in Syria, the man whose signal domestic achievement is Obamacare, has all this under control. There is no need to worry about the world's largest nation, a nuclear nation, the second largest industrial power on earth, America's largest creditor, flexing its muscles in its own backyard which is all the way across the Pacific from America, because Obama is not.

No, there is absolutely no danger that this could spin out of control and erupt into nuclear war.

[RS_Rider]

So far, one comment about the article.
I’d like to hear a little feed back on the scrambled jets.

[Carry_Okie]

Chinese state media say China has sent two fighter planes to investigate flights by a dozen U.S. and Japanese planes in its newly established maritime air defence zone over the East China Sea.

I didn't know the AP was officially charged with recognizing China's claim.

[Bobalu]

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it

[GeronL]

an earlier story said South Korea also sent planes in

[Patriotism Populism Tradition]

If the Soviets or Nazi Germany could have produced low-end products for us at bargain basement prices, at the small cost of our consumer manufacturing base, should we have taken the deal?

China has had the great good fortune to come up against a United States run by morons who are paid to believe in China’s pacific intentions. To me, there’s no greater evidence of the foreign policy weakness of the Obama administration than that the PRC no longer cares if its mask
slips. Sure, they want “reunification” with (conquest of) Taiwan. Sure, they want to assert bogus claims that allow them control over resource-rich areas contested by Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines. Sure, they can’t achieve these things without an American sellout of our democratic partners in Asia. But what are we going to do about it?

Probably nothing. After all, we need their garbage. Better hope the PRC turns into the big cuddly Switzerland of the East sometime pretty soon. Except that ‘pretty soon’ has been coming for at least 25 years now, or so politicians on both sides of the aisle tell me, and all I see is a China growing stronger and more aggressive. If contrary to all expectations it doesn’t happen, and China makes a move for Asian hegemony instead, I guess you could say they screwed up.

But at least we got some cheap TVs.

[familyop]

It’s a consequence of trade imbalances, resulting balance of payments deficits. The result of those problems? The gigantic pile of U.S. debt and China surpluses spent on the military buildup (especially the massive Chinese nuke buildup going on for more than a decade). Americans aren’t fooled by domestic enemies, their monstrous capabilities for sponsoring media propaganda, their big influence as political constituents in all parties, their anti-defense pushes from both political parties, their desires for more centralized worldwide government, etc.

[catnipman]

Everybody should just keep flying in this zone as much as possible. If China keeps scrambling jets each time, they’ll use up all their engine time doing this and soon will have to stop because everything they’ve got is being refurbished at the same time.

[gura]

Good thing Wong Wei is no longer around to pilot a J-8.

[anymouse]

George Santayana was right.