Posted on 11/27/2013 1:21:03 PM PST by mojito
BEIJING — China appeared to soften the rules it had issued for its new air defense zone, raising no objection on Wednesday to flights by two American B-52 bombers and Japanese airliners that ignored Beijing’s demands to file advance flight plans and saying only that it had monitored the planes.
The subdued initial response came just days after China warned of possible military action if planes did not comply with the rules for flights through a large stretch of airspace it now says it controls over the East China Sea.
The unarmed B-52s flew through the newly declared zone overnight Monday, and Japan’s main civilian airlines passed through Wednesday without notifying the authorities in Beijing. Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways said they initially complied with China’s demands, but after a request from the Japanese government of Shinzo Abe, the conservative prime minister, they reversed their position.
Offering more temperate remarks compared with the earlier bellicose statements of China’s Defense Ministry, a Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday said Beijing would differentiate its reactions.
“We will make corresponding responses according to different situations and how big the threat is,” the spokesman said in explaining why China had refrained from implementing the regulations against the B-52s.
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They don’t need missile, they’ll just stop buying our debt and we’ll capitulate.
Is it the year of the dragon or the B-52 in China?
Confucius say squeaking lion attract tiger.
“They don’t need missile, they’ll just stop buying our debt and we’ll capitulate.”
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. The ChiComm private investor funds in China are flopping around like a dead fish. The smart Asian money is backing Australia and the emerging economy in India. By 2030, about half of India’s population will be under the age of 30. That’s where the smart money is going, including billions and billions of American dollars.
OK Americans, fine we noticed perhaps for the first time, that as China becomes stronger, it will also become increasingly belligerent.
This is the big difference in our cultures, and will become increasingly important as we continue to subsidize China.
China becoming more affluent, will mean China becoming more belligerent.
China has a population 5 TIMES that of America.
America it is time to stop buying everything from China. It is time to balance our budget (spend no more on imports then we make on exports) and it is time to bring back industry right here to America.
America wake up.
We cannot buy everything from China.
We need to produce stuff right here in America.
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