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China Training For "Short, Sharp War" With Japan, US Navy Warns
In the last year, China has increased the military activity and actions in the South China Sea around the so-called Nine Dash Line — China’s expansive claim into the region which is in conflict with several other international claims.
China's Nine-Dash Line
As USNI reports, Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for PACFLEET, notes that while China has long trained for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan during military exercises but has expanded its training to include a similar attack on Japanese holdings in the East China Sea. He concludes, "the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands]."
As part of China’s Mission Action 2013 exercise — a massive exercise between the all branches of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — the military trained for taking the Senkaku Islands, said Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for PACFLEET.
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“We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross military region enterprise — Mission Action 2013,” Fannell said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego, Calif.
“[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.”
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“As a senior U.S. government official recently stated, there is growing concern that China’s pattern of behavior in the South China Sea reflects an incremental effort by China to assert control of the area contained in the so-called 9-dash line despite the objections of its neighbors, and despite the lack of any explanation or apparent basis under international law.” Fannell said.
He then detailed a series of what he called aggressive actions taken by China against its neighbors over the past year. Some of those actions, including combat drills in the south Philippine Sea were described as China’s “protection of maritime rights.”
“By the way, protection of maritime rights is a Chinese euphemism for coerce seizure of coastal rights of China’s neighbors,” Fannell said.
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“Tensions in the South and East China Seas have deteriorated with the Chinese Coast Guard playing the role of antagonist, harassing China’s neighbors while PLA Navy ships, their protectors, (make) port calls throughout the region promising friendship and cooperation.”
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Fannell’s assessment of the Chinese lies seemingly in contrast to American efforts to forge close military-to-military ties with the country.
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Thanks for the wonderful insights brought to me by the same competent people who have trouble parking their warships. I always believe everything from "Senior US government officials". The Pentagon has the best interests of the free world doncha know?
So, the narrative is, these islands are Japanese. When exactly did that happen? Oh yeah, during Japan's last imperial expansion that ended with WWII. Somebody please tell Abe and the Pentagon that Japan LOST that war and at that instance lost all territories they stole from their neighbours. This fucking farce is getting beyond ridiculous. What the fuck is next? Demand the Russians to give Siberia to Japan? Demand China to give Manchuria to Japan? Demand South Korea to become a Japanese province? WTF.
Just what the flipping fucking hell is going on here? I appreciate that we need to see all angles of geopolitics to learn each party's narrative, but this sort of crap is getting tiresome. The last time on this issue, we had an article from some ripe cunt celebrating, not just excusing, but celebrating Abe's visit to a shrine (a fucking shrine!) to Japan's war criminals. Do you have any fucking idea how offensive that is to all the allied POWs who were tortured to death at their hands? Do you see the Germans erecting a shrine to Hitler and having their head of state bowing and scraping at it?
The Japanese people deserve better, and they have my sympathies for their woes. But those sociopathic fuck heads in leadership and the mischief making, warmongering cunts perverting history and facts with these kinds of articles can go suck a leper's dick.
I agree with you, YHC, yet it is equally absurd, just by looking at a map, for far-distant China to claim, for example, the Spratley Islands, which patently are not just justifiably Phillipine and/or Vietnamese territory, but over which any Chinese claim makes as much sense as a Mexican or Zambian claim. I still fail to understand why the Chinese are not immediately laughed out of the room every time they claim these remote islands which are so far removed from both their borders and their legitimate territorial waters.
Hey mate. A good point about the Spratly islands. I see that it is claimed by 6 nations that includes Taiwan. Possibly why China threw its hat in the ring, but I don't want to make excuses for their crazy behaviour. As made clear, the only thing that rubbed me the wrong way was the Japan/China islands dispute and the Pentagon/msm's role in it.
They are more competent than you think. It helps them if you underestimate them. All part of the plan.
Japan needs nukes, yesterday.
Japan has nukes. They are sitting inside of US Strategic and Attack Nuclear Submarines.
But since my computer strangely froze while I was writing this then perhaps Japan really has nukes of her own and the NSA monitors do not want me exposing the source of that information...
REDACTED.
You'll never know...
With hugs,
NSA
Yaay for war! We need a good war.
One country is notably missing from the list of current and prospective members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but it slips my mind at the moment.
Simple stuff really. You take what is disputed and then you take a bit more for padding. Any attack on mainland in retaliation is met with greater force against the main islands during the process. The instant it gets out of hand, you pull out the nukes. So China gets what it wants, and at the bargaining table simply states "you'll accept the offer and get back the undisputed islands, or you refuse and we'll keep it all seize all your mainland assets and slap an embargo on you". Japan's economy is in no state for a shock like that, especially over some disputed little islands which it had no legit right to in the first place. No brainer really.