Japan Cranks Up pressure on China

The Japan Times ^ | Saturdy, May 11, 2002 | Unknown

[tlrugit]

China increasingly shows itself to be an arrogant and uncivillized nation.

[Fish out of Water]

index bump

[hchutch]

Looks like the Japanese are starting to show some backbone against the ChiComs. Good... good...

[Enterprise]

Well, just invade them again. This time though, the All American Volunteer Force will fly for Japan instead of China.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I don't think you should use profanity on this forum.

[pragmatic_asian]

I think that in light of 9-11, it would be a more than lax to allow unknown people to rush an embassy. Still, the Chinese police overstepped their bounds by essentially entering a sovereign country's soil and dragging people out. I know the Chinese have a hard time handling political asylum seekers, but in this case it's not even their decision.

[TheDon]

Unfortunately, the Japs have nothing to backup their backbone these days. I'm sure the Chicoms are shaking in their boots.

[caa26]

Japan's military is very sophisticated and they have modern weaponery, they're just not allowed to attack anyone under the terms of their constitution. Japan could easily setup nuclear warheads in a few months time.

Japan can be nuclear power: Ozawa

[rdb3]

China increasingly shows itself to be an arrogant and uncivillized nation.

Let's just say I have a few different, but choice words for COMMUINISTS.

[The Electrician]

Did this get any "play" in the US press? I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about this incident...

[Tai_Chung]

"They should have prevented it, even physically," said Yanai, a Chuo University professor. "The incident has left me speechless. It's absolutely humiliating."

I agree. Letting the people out of China through a 3rd country is NOT the issue. It is an act of war to invade the diplomatic compound of another country. China MUST apologize and do whatever it takes to satisfy the Japanese people.

[DoughtyOne]

China increasingly shows itself to be an arrogant, unsophisticaed, internationally inept, police state, which is headed for an international confrontation and slap-down due to it's behavior as and uncivillized nation.

[Centurion2000]

China's about to really piss off someone that totally crushed them last century. Here's hoping that history repeats itself (minus the atrocities though)

[hchutch]

Maybe it's time for them to do so.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

Although I still believe that it is important to distinguish the government from the civilians. Christianity is the fastest growing religion in China, typically Christianity is the fastest growing religion in any nation where the common people are oppressed.

[borghead]

dude, a country that is not capable of feeding itself, with a low and aging population, no nukes and no natural resources in a protracted war against china, you have to be kidding me!

[caa26]

see post #9

[RightWhale]

The Chinese police should never have gone on embassy grounds. It amounts to an invasion, could be taken as an act of war.

[borghead]

Pure bullcrap, the Japs do not have a blue water-navy, no aircraft carriers or nuke subs, them have no offensive missle capabilities what so ever. Its one thing to design a nuke and an icbm, to build and deploy those buggers takes more than a couple of monthes. The chinese have a crappy navy and airforce, but its still much larger than the japs, moreover china sits astride the vital shipping lanes that Japan uses to get oil and natural resources to keep its economy going. If you look at the history of East Asia, you'll quickly realize that China has been the dominant nation for most of that stretch of time, with Japan being a peripherial state. The only reasons the japs took over 1/3 of China in the last century was because you have an industrialized nation fighting an agrarian one, and that industrialized nation already controlled pockets of natural resources in Korea and Taiwan(both of which used to belong to the Chinese) to maintain their war effort.