Posted on 09/26/2018 3:43:34 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
The Japanese are growing increasingly concerned that China will someday move to occupy — Bejing says ‘reclaim’ — the Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu Islands, and thus is arming up for that potential confrontation.
The development comes as Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pushes for a more muscular military in the face of a rising revisionist China. In April 2014, for instance, he lifted a ban on sales of Japanese weapons systems to other countries, though defense firms have not actually sold any systems.
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That’s just the cover story. The Japanese are readying themselves for Godzilla’s return.
The gathering storm, as they say.
The Grudge Match
Is it manned?
Slim Pickens will ride it down.
In the event of a conflict, the sitting duck atolls militarized by the chinese will rapidly be blasted back to the rubble they were created from.
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