Scare Thy Neighbors

The Strategy Page ^ | 4/21/2010 | The Strategy Page

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

There are plenty of places the Chinese Navy can send its ships for training. Sending them to international waters near Okinawa has the added advantage of reminding Japan that China could use force to assert its rights over small islands Japan also claims. Some of these islands have oil and natural gas deposits nearby. Chinese leaders are very concerned about energy supplies, because China has to import nearly all its petroleum, and consumption is growing rapidly. Thus China blocks Western attempts to impose strong sanctions on Iran, which is a major oil supplier to China. In return, China is believed to have also helped Iran with its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. China is also still very concerned with Japanese military and economic power. Add to that the smoldering resentment for Japanese occupation and atrocities from the 1880s to the 1940s, and you have potential for war that is little appreciated outside the region. In fact, China has tense relationships with all its neighbors, in addition to a long history of Chinese aggression. The growing economic power of China is seen, but Chinese neighbors, as another weapon the Chinese will use against them.

[FreeAtlanta]

We should be drilling for our oil and trading it to China to reduce our dept. I am afraid I am passing the point of hating/loathing Democrats and Obama.

I know it isn't right, but maybe confessing is the first step toward being forgiven. A bigger step would be if they started behaving like logical lovers of America and our constitution. sigh...

[Therapsid]

And how far away is the Alaskan oil?

And whats it worth to them?

And how many or our politicals all ready know?

[flowerplough]

China, with its One-Child-Policy testosterone bulge, wants Taiwan, and wants some Japanese blood and land, and wants to be acknowledged by a deferential, kowtowing western hemisphere as The Celestial Superpower.