Posted on 03/12/2015 7:07:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How do we know the war is coming in the first place? Because the advertising for it is out. Amongst plenty of other evidence, one Chinese front organisation conducted a poll on Australian attitudes to the ANZUS treaty and a Chinese attack on Japan. Why would they conduct such a poll unless they are going to attack Japan? Not that they were interested in the results as such. They just wanted to be able to publicize the poll in order to try to keep Australia on the sidelines of their war.
The war will have two functions for China. Firstly, it will provide legitimacy for the regime as economic growth stalls. Secondly, the Chinese will have pride in humiliating their neighbouring countries, and the United States, by defeating them in battle and creating no-go zones in the oceans which other countries won’t be able to enter without Chinese permission. The war will have nothing to do with oil and gas resources under the seabed and securing sea-lanes. The Chinese have never offered those excuses for their behavior themselves. The excuses are the creation of Western pundits for something that otherwise is stupid, destructive, and primitive.
Some have seen this war coming well in advance. In 2005, Robert Kaplan wrote an article entitled How We Would Fight China. In it he notes that China will approach the war “asymmetrically, as terrorists do. In Iraq the insurgents have shown us the low end of asymmetry, with car bombs. But the Chinese are poised to show us the high end of the art.”
To win the war, China has to seize territory and then hold it against the US/Japanese counterattack. There will be two main theatres of operation -- the Senkaku and Yaeyama island chains in the East China Sea
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China has two years to attack Japan—while their man is in the White House. He will never attack China (where could he find the funds to keep the debtor nation working?) He will never defend Japan or any other place that he doesn’t like. look to see a move in spring of 2016. When the attack comes it will be a “Trojan Horse” attack (I believe) like a new sort of Pearl Harbor to take out the Japanese “Self Defence Force” Navy in one move. (Maybe a nuke?) They will make a grab for Taiwan and maybe Vietnam??? They want to make the south Pacific a Chinese lake.
And then we default on any bonds the chicoms have in retaliation. If we contain the fighting to air/sea and limited land engagements on islands we kick their butts. We also get the Japanese and other Asian countries involved and we should certainly continue to cultivate a closer relationship with India as a counterbalance in man power alone against the chicoms. The wild card is they may be crazy enough to go nuclear rather than face a humiliating lose. Our problem is the current wussie in chief.
This sounds silly, but one thing for sure...if they do it now, Obama will do nothing.
YOu make a good point.
Let me ask you...who has more power over you? The guy who owes you $100,000, or the guy you owe $100,000 to?
Japan has nuclear weapons?
I sure hope so. . .
It would certainly alter the world economy, though. Cheap manufactured goods, down. U.S. debt, canceled out. Foreign markets for those goods they still could produce, hostile. International finance, frozen. For a sprinkling of islands and maybe some potential oil assets in the Spratly islands that they couldn't exploit anyway? I don't think so. The Chinese are smarter than that.
Now, Taiwan, that's another matter. They might risk quite a lot for Taiwan.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/whatever-you-do-dont-call-this-ship-an-aircraft-carrier-70cca34a772
If not, Japan has the technology to produce advanced thermonuclear weapons in short order and China knows it.
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