No problem Japan...Ram-Bama has your back.
Posted on 08/20/2012 1:52:23 PM PDT by traumer
* The dramatic assault by a dozen Japanese nationalists infuriated China, which issued an official protest to Tokyo
* It sparked a number of anti-Japanese rallies across China
Tensions between Japan and China threatened to boil over yesterday in a row over a group of disputed islands.
Around ten right-wing Japanese activists swam ashore the main island in the Senkaku archipelago and raised the national flag. They carried out the stunt to call on China to give up its claim to the islands, which are under Japanese control.
Infuriated, Beijing issued an immediate rebuke as thousands of Chinese took to the streets in cities across the country in protest at the stunt. The uninhabited islands, which the Chinese call Diaoyu and Taiwan also lays a claim to, are hotly disputed because they lie close to rich gas fields and are situated in a vital shipping lane in the East China Sea.
The activists, who belong to a group whose name translates as ‘Hang in there, Japan’, travelled to the islands with 150 other people in a flotilla, which had ostensibly set out to commemorate Japanese citizens who died nearby in World War II.
The pro-Japan activists arrived in the island chain at dawn today on a flotilla of boats carrying a total of 150 people.
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If Japan were smart, they would use this hyper-nationalism promoted by the Chinese Communists against them. The Chinese Gov’t may allow, once, public demonstrations against Japan, but they are extremely wary of such demonstrations getting out of control.
Perhaps a few more minor irritations such as landing a few people on the Diaoyutais might encourage Chinese citizens to go out on the street and protest.
See how quickly the Chinese Gov’t clamps down....
Hang in there, Japan!...............
日本 ピング (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
This was only a MATTER OF TIME....
We (the Walmart customers) have helped to build up the chinese army/navy/air force - so WHY the surprise now?
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No problem Japan...Ram-Bama has your back.
Great way to dump our debt and stop the importation of chineese crap,
stir the pot and get Japan and China to get into a war and take japans side and tell chi-coms to pound sand.
The Japanese can barely fend off the “Rainbow Warrior”.I don’t give them much chance against the “People’s Navy”.
Commenter from DM:
- El Presidente of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20/8/2012 8:03
It’s about the undersea oil fields, and nothing else. Thanks traumer.
Oh, for Pete’s sake, this has nothing to do with trade with China and everything to do with the fact that Obama is sitting on his hands while the world falls apart.
There is an article in the WSJ that explains what is going on with all the islands in the South China Sea. The Chinese are claiming them all, even the ones that have long been considered possessions of other countries, like Japan or Vietnam.
China has recently sold oil leases around islands that are in the economic sphere of Vietnam. China established what they call a prefecture for all the islands, sent in 45 people to act as the legislature and a garrison of soldiers to back them up. There aren’t very many people on these islands, mostly uninhabited, but the treasure is in under sea minerals and the control of trade routes.
Obama does nothing.
“We (the Walmart customers) have helped to build up the chinese army/navy/air force - so WHY the surprise now?”
No, I give credit where it’s due. First to our labor unions, for “sticking it to THE MAN” and making it next to impossible to manufacture here. In close second are the lawmakers that both enable the unions (by allowing them to exist), and then use regulations (particularly environmental, by also the tort system) to keep their feet on the throats of companies that do figure out a way to stay alive.
If that garbage were cleaned up, Walmart, Target, and the rest would find US good MUCH MORE competitive.
It’s amazing that a few protestors can get Nations’ panties into a war twist these days. We live in interesting times.
Chinese expansionism is becoming increasingly egregious; can it be very much longer before they start military actions along their borders targeted at India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, or Japan?
This would be like, a dozen Tea Partiers raise a US flag in Mexico, and the whole country of Mexico gets bent out of shape.
Touchy, touchy, touchy.
Yes I am aware - I follow the SE Asia events.
Still - the US $$$ helped China to build the military monster.
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