Posted on 01/16/2015 10:02:47 AM PST by raptor22
Military Spending: In the face of an expansionist China seeking to dominate the East and South China Seas, Tokyo has set its largest defense budget ever to help defend islands that it rightfully considers Japanese territory.
As its military, economy and ambitions grow, so too does China's assertiveness about control of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the larger South China Sea. Chinese military doctrine refers to establishing dominance over what it calls the "first island chain," which encompasses the East China Sea.
Beijing has long declared the South China Sea to be its territorial waters and has laid claim to two disputed chains: the Paracel Islands, about 200 miles from the coast of Vietnam, and the Spratly Islands in the southeastern part of the South China Sea.
Chinese government writings refer to the waters surrounding China as "blue soil" and the islands in these waters as Chinese territory. They include the East China Sea and the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu in Chinese), over which tensions have arisen as Beijing disputes Tokyo's legitimate claims and has engaged in a series of military provocations.
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CHINA THREAT PING
Godzilla fault???
Interesting
Thought you might find this interesting.
Put me on your China threat list?
Sure.
Yeah.
Things are a little different now than they were 90 years ago. I don’t think the Chinese would wait ten seconds before wiping out the Japanese.
Add me to the China list please.
CHINA THREAT PING
Their defense budget still isn’t all that big, IMO
What is Japan going to use for soldiers? The youth has dried up due to their birthrate.
Giant Robots
They could use Koreans for soldiers? They need more ships and bigger ships! More subs and rockets too.
CHINA THREAT PING
Godzilla and Power Rangers... No one messes with Japan!
Thanks raptor22.
The headline is such BS. Japan’s defense spending is stuck at 1% of GDP, where it’s been for the last few decades. Meanwhile, China’s is 2.5x that amount in dollar terms and 2x in % of GDP terms. And Chinese military pay is way lower. The Japanese need to wake the heck up and understand that Uncle Sugar won’t always be there to protect them.
That should read “less than 1% of GDP”.
A day late and a dollar short.
Japan has borrowed and spent at least $1 trillion in the last 10 years on Keynesian stimulus.
Had they invested that in their military, maybe China would actually notice them.
That still would not be enough.
Without nuclear weapons, Japan is too small and too vulnerable to an oil blockade to be taken seriously as a military threat.
And, after 70 years of pacifism, you have to wonder how hard they will fight, too.
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