Posted on 11/25/2013 8:54:46 AM PST by mojito
TOKYO — Matching China’s stern rhetoric with warnings of his own, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan vowed on Monday to defend his nation’s airspace after China declared an air defense zone over a disputed group of islands in the East China Sea.
Speaking in Parliament, Mr. Abe called China’s move an unacceptable effort to change the status quo with threats of force. He described it as a dangerous ratcheting up of tensions in the standoff over the uninhabited islands, which are administered by Japan but also claimed by China.
“We are determined to defend our country’s air and sea space,” Mr. Abe said. “The measures by the Chinese side have no validity whatsoever for Japan.”
China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words and nerves over the islands for more than a year. China’s declaration on Saturday that it would identify and possibly take military action against aircraft flying near the islands follows a long period of frequent dispatches of Chinese coast guard ships and aircraft to the area to challenge Japan’s control.
Mr. Abe’s effort to draw a line in the sand reflects his promises to lead his nation in standing up to China....
Japan has repeatedly signaled to China since Saturday that it has no intention of yielding control of airspace over the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. On Monday, the Japanese vice foreign minister, Akitaka Saiki, summoned China’s ambassador to Japan, Cheng Yonghua, to demand that China repeal the air defense zone, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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“Nanking.”
I think China very much remembers Nanking and invoking that could very well backfire on the Japanese.
wow, in 69-71, we went anywhere and did anything and nothing ever happened that I can recall involving Japanese on American. The other way around FOR SURE!
Exactly my friend. The chicoms will not have a cake walk. We will fight the chicoms one day because they will see to it.
10 years an Army Brat.
Now that funny LOL!
Nice!
Add in Indonesia, Malaysia, and perhaps Australia, in a new SW Pacific alliance, and you have more balancing forces to offset those of Red China.
If this sort of alliance were likely, it would have happened decades ago when the US had a President like Ronald Reagan.
Memories of WWII are very long, and I believe in any conflict between China and Japan, most of Asia will stay neutral - but will secretly be hoping the Chinese put the hammer down on a nation they still don't like or trust.
During a couple of Chinese invasions of Japan, they took kidnapped Japanese women, tortured them, and tied them to the outside of Chinese ships to put fear into the Japanese during attacks on the Japanese islands. These conflicts easily go back almost fifteen hundred years, with all the nightmarish pain that war can inflict on people. Then there is the story of the Koreans, caught in the middle between the two warring nations. The Koreans were torn to pieces between them. The U.S.A. Is a really young nation, with no concept of animosity that goes back many centuries.
“...The U.S.A. Is a really young nation, with no concept of animosity that goes back many centuries. ...”
We have enough animosity right here in our country with all of the hostile minority “cultures” clamoring for a piece of Whitey...
“...During a couple of Chinese invasions of Japan, they took kidnapped Japanese women, tortured them, ...”
Yes, and the Japs repaid that with Nanking... they were absolute animals in what they did in that city.
War brings out the repressed psychotic in some folks... and does it in spades.
As for hostile minority groups out to get whitey, appears to only being one racial group, the black community. The others tend to get along with whitey after a couple generations. Despite being here over many generations, many blacks are not trying to get along with whitey (or other races). Just an irritant, will never rise to the level of a coming culture war with Muslims.
People have been saying “Japan’s going nuke” for years and nothings happened.
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