Tensions between Japan and China close to boiling point after Japanese activists scramble

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[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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

China’s so beefed up and then they get so comically pissed at this little rogue action. (It will suck to be one of those twelve guys when Japan gets its hands on them. Japan didn’t want this, that is obvious.)

[familyop]

China also very recently took the Paracel and Spratly Islands between Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. There’s quite a bit of oil under the Spratly Islands. She’s spreading out, folks, and not much, if anything, will be done about it at this late point in events.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The word is out to all the tyrants and People’s Republics in the world—Act now before the election—while Obama is president—because things may well change after November. Look to see the Dogs of war unleashed in September/October. Obama will only go to the UN or give a speech.

[familyop]

"Let's don't get mis-led here, we have watched a kinky change in “rules of engagement” for our forces, if Japan and China go to it you will see unrestricted conflict at it's ugliest. They are not going to be jumping around in tutus and patting each other on the butt."

We don't know how many hundreds of long range, mobile nukes China has now. ...probably lost track around 10 or more years ago, when it only had about 300 or so that could reach anywhere in our USA with some impressive accuracy. ...same with submarines, air support, anti-air and anti-ship. A US congressman tried to warn others in Congress well over 10 years ago, but VIP, bipartisan constituents didn't want their tools to listen. Japan would probably last about ten minutes in a real fight between the two. While you're at it, see comment #22.

Also look up some info on the SCO (Asia).