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Japan Prepares Missile Blockade In East China Sea To Halt Chinese "Maritime Aggression"
Late last month in “South Pacific Showdown? Japan May Send Warships To China Islands,” we documented a meeting between Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and Philippines President Benigno Aquino on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in Manila.
The two leaders discussed the possibility that Japan could provide Manila with “large ships” that the Philippines can use to patrol the South China Sea.
This was, of course, a direct response to China, whose land reclamation efforts in the Spratlys have ruffled more than a few feathers in the South Pacific.
“The deal will mark the first time Japan has agreed to directly donate military equipment to another country, and is the latest example of Abe's more muscular security agenda,” Reuters reported on at the time, before adding that “rather than challenge Beijing directly by sending warships or planes to patrol the South China Sea, Japan is helping to build the military capacity of friendly nations with claims to parts of the waterway.”
Despite the contention that Abe has no immediate plans to “directly challenge” the PLA navy, the PM also told Obama that Japan would consider conducting “freedom of navigation” patrols in conjunction with the US around China’s man-made islands.
Recall that Washington has committed to sailing warships by the islands several times per year in a repeat of the pass-by the navy conducted in late October.
As we said last month, “if Japan starts to conduct the same type of exercises near the Spratlys that the US has now pledged to carry out at least twice per quarter, it will be more than Beijing can bear.”
Of course Japan is also at odds with China over the latter’s construction of rigs near a demarcation line that separates the two countries' exclusive economic zones in the East China Sea:
Well, speaking of the East China Sea, Reuters is out reporting that in response to pressure from Washington, Japan is set to "fortify its far-flung island chain in the East China Sea under an evolving strategy that aims to turn the tables on China's navy and keep it from ever dominating the Western Pacific Ocean."
The US believes Japan "must help contain growing Chinese military power" and is pushing Abe "to abandon his country's decades-old bare-bones home island defense in favor of exerting its military power in Asia," Reuters continues. According to "a dozen military planners and government policymakers ... Tokyo is responding by stringing a line of anti-ship, anti-aircraft missile batteries along 200 islands in the East China Sea stretching 1,400 km (870 miles) from the country's mainland toward Taiwan."
Apparently, the deployment will act as a kind of blockade as "Chinese ships sailing from their eastern seaboard must pass through this seamless barrier of Japanese missile batteries to reach the Western Pacific, access to which is vital to Beijing both as a supply line to the rest of the world's oceans and for the projection of its naval power." Recall that from the PLA's surprise appearance at the Yemeni port city of Aden to the Chinese navy's trip to Alaska, Xi is keen on projecting China's growing maritime prowess. The missile battery is an attempt to deter Beijing's ambitions.
The idea is to establish the string of islands stretching through Japan's East China Sea territory and south through the Philippines as a kind of demarcation line separating Beijing's sphere of regional influence from Washington's. "In the next five or six years the first island chain will be crucial in the military balance between China and the U.S.- Japan," said Satoshi Morimoto, a Takushoku University professor who was defense minister in 2012 told Reuters.
This purportedly marks the beginning of a concerted effort to challenge China's attempt to exert complete control over the South and East China Seas (which the US and its allies swear is Beijing's endgame). "The growing influence of China and the relative decline of the U.S. [is] a factor. We wanted to do what we could and help ensure the sustainability of the U.S. forward deployment" Akihisa Nagashima, a DPJ lawmaker says, explaining a shift in Abe's maritime defense strategy that began in 2010.
So, as we anxiously await the (likely angry and invariably indignant) response from Beijing, we'll close with the following rather ominous quote, from an official who spoke to Reuters:
"To be sure, there is nothing to stop Chinese warships from sailing through under international law, but they will have to do so in within the crosshairs of Japanese missiles."
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China is making the mistake of trying to grab everything, all at once. I see America in a shotting war they aren't prepared for, with a country they really don't want to fight.......
The Chinese are buying apartments in Tokyo like crazy I read in SCMP. Japanese realtors are working with their conterparts in China to sell as many as possible of these units to Chinese who don't know where to put their $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Soon, the Chinese will own half of Japan the way they own Cali and much of Australia.
So don't worry too much about conflict. Won't happen since my guess is alot of these buyers are gubmint officials.
With fake counterfeit currency no doubt.
No, China is just protecting their own interests, much like Russia did with Crimea...all this before WW3 is launched globally.
Japan is just becoming the next Turkey which was the next Ukraine. Fuckin US puppet countries (includes Vietnam, Taiwan and Phillipines)
Sounds like WWIII
If comment above about China buying up Japan RE is true, I guess Japan does not get nuked early in the proceedings like I previously assumed?
japan is alredy nuked and they nuked the pacific ocean so non of us can eat tuna anylonger
stupid japanese its because their eyes are so small and they cant dive cars so they removed all cars from japan selling their ugly toyotas to isis
You are on a winning streak, clearly
Fat american citizenses run scared like piggy! We fuck you now fat pigses!
And we fuck japanses too!
One thing that is never talked about in MSM, attacks on nuclear power plants.
China or North Korea don't have to use a nuclear weapon on Japan, they only have to hit the nuclear power plants on the western Japanese coast with conventional weapons, i.e. conventional warheads on ballistic missiles.
Each spent fuel pool at these reactors contains more cesium-137 than was released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons tests combined. Destruction of these pools, as well as the reactors, would leave most of Japan uninhabitable.
Abe is a US stooge who is probably also creating a virtual nuclear arsenal under the cover of the State Secrets Act, which is also used to suppress freedom of the press in Japan. Its passage was urged and supported by the US.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34085-in-preparation-to-join-us-wars-japan-dismantles-freedom-of-the-press
What Are Their Names?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTuzOBdV08
Once they own 51% look out. That's a s good as owning it all.
I don't follow your logic at all here. Say "the" Chinese are buying gazillion dollars worth of real estate in Japan. If differences between the Chinese government and the Japanese governement (as opposed to "the Chinese" and "the Japanese"). . .if differences reach the critical stage, all the Japanese government need do is confiscate those assets in Japan, a traditional response to conflicts hot or cold.
What then? "Soon the Chinese [some Chinese] will own half of Japan," you say. And shortly after that those Chinese will own none of Japan.
Or ratchet it down a step or two. All Japan need do is legislate currency controls. Chinese can own half of Japan but are unable to repatriate returns on those assets should they be sold.
In what way is your "analysis" correct? I fail to see it.
Actually Chinese people had been setting up potemkin businesses on investor visas to buy swathes of land in Hokkaido. The immigration authorities got wise and started clamping down on the investor visas. No harm in selling the Chinese cubes of air in the sky, but terra firma is another matter.
Reminds me of the early 1900s.....hmmm...how did that end again?
THe chinese might be setting up a barrier to prevent another nanking event. Ehhh..who am i kidding the japanese have been neutered.
RIPS
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If the situation went hot right now the People's Liberation Navy would end up at the bottom of the ocean......assuming our ballless Prez would tell the Pentagon to go all out. However, the problem is 10-15-20 years from now. The U.S. needs to be #1 for a reason: if we aren't, the Chinese will exert an unbearable amount of political pressure on its neighbors. We need a combination of strong military strength combined with an intelligent Prez. The first part is hard. The second part is proving to be even harder to find.
The US projects its power worldwide to a large extent with its navy. But the US navy is now very vulnerable. The US navy can be taken out pretty easily. It doesn't matter if China's navy ends up at the bottom. China would fight the US navy off its mainland, launching thousands of missles. No way the US navy will get through that. Once the US navy is gone, it becomes a pushbutton war, because the US can't fight or win a sizable conventional war any more. A pushbutton war means everyone goes down, and only the Russians, as far as I know have been preparing for a survivable situation with their general population. They've built over 2 billion dollars of nuclear shelters over the last 20 years for the average Ivan in Russia. Everyone in Moscow is no farther than 3 minutes away from one. Do you know where your designated US fallout shelter is? Congress and the elites have them. But the average US Joe?
How much time did it take you to write that? If you want to have a Russian bias that is your privilege. But claiming the U.S. Navy, at this point in time, couldn't deep six the PLN is farcial. We don't have to move the fleet close to the mainland to sink their fleet. Brush up on the weaponry on both sides and the likely strategies and then get back to me. Jeez. And be sure to study both the surface fleets and the sub fleets in conjunction with both country's air power assets. I don't want a war, just like (hopefully) you. But being wildly wrong about the truth isn't helpful either.
Aircraft carriers vs 100 subs deployed in chinese lake - south china sea- how is that going to work? Okinawa / Subic Bay same result
Chinese coast or Hong Kong to Manila is less than 1,000 miles - so the Russian made S-300 m- gets there pretty quick or in between - with 100 missles
so how does your defense exactly work?
seems China has the advantage
"But claiming the U.S. Navy, at this point in time, couldn't deep six the PLN is farcial."
The Chinese DF-26 carrier killer missile is both conventional and nuclear capable and has a 2500 mile range. Further, since it is land based, there is no limit to the number that the could be launched at a carrier battle group.
The US navy is comprised of super expensive floating coffins, whose main use is attacking and destroying the American Taxpayer. When the US succeeds in provoking the war it seems to want, the US sailors on those boats will have a 30 minute life expectancy.
In the first hour of WW3 all the US aircraft carriers in the western pacific or the MENA will be sinking into the sea.
Everybody was Kung Foo fighting...
I ain’t no Xenophobe, but any "hostilities" between Japan and China are nothing but posturing of the Dickless vs. the Ballless. ;-)
Looney
What? No war? Well, WTF? Why even post this news?
and where will Japan get the money to do that?
Answer: The Post Office accounts of its citizens.
Time for another Spanking in Nanking.
Ain't gonna happen. If you live on the US West Coast, especially, you should learn Mandarin. To be able to spy on the Occupiers.
I do speak Mandarin. Chingchow chang chong chungking?
Lei Jung-ee sai gao mo mo?
Hai!
(sorry. Cantonese. Best I can do)
Naanuun sexhi higgun namjainiku tachi combi kachi pio.
Korean
I feel left out.
I only speak Victor.
Divine Wind 2.0
Grimaldus
Who really thinks that the two generations now of Japanese men who've been so browbeaten and economically downtrodden that they've even given up on sex are actually going to go toe-to-toe with armed and furious Chinamen on the battlefield? It's ludicrous.
A hefty percentage of Japanese young women are delaying marriage (if not giving up on it entirely), or marrying foreigners. The average Japanese young man is an empty, weak, geekified, shell of a yamatodamashi.
30 years of economic depression and the sinking realization they'll never be able to afford to give a family a normal life, and they give up and assume the only women who could ever love them are 2D.
Poor bastards.
Same thing happened to the men of Russia, early 90s.
Same thing is happening to (North) American men, present day.
The average Japanese young man is an empty, weak, geekified, shell of a yamatodamashi.
You can add radiated to that list of adjectives
"A hefty percentage of Japanese young women are delaying marriage (if not giving up on it entirely), or marrying foreigners."
That´s the small-dick-problem of the Jap men. Makes them aggressive too.
No, it's the result of feminism, women libs and the feminization of men.
Japan need to get their spine back and their traditional culture, removing westernization, western culture and start breeding...
The westernization and modernism have done worse to the future of that civilization than radical Islam is doing to Europe !
No need of millions of immigrants from foreign countries to self-destruct your own country, a country can self-destruct itself without problem.
People will do what they're told to do and that's that.
Bring the missires. A big brockade.
WE BROW YOU OUT OF DA WATA!
Well, you know how much the Russians and Chinese like to copy America`s success....
Reagans big spending military strategy destroyed a bankrupt Soviet Union, so in copycat fashion a big spending military strategy by Russia and China will destroy a bankrupt Japan......and America......
I have been thinking the same thing. This Cold War v2 will probably be the final push of the US into its debt super cycle collapse.
Japan is mint. I like the culture.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/18/paul-ryan-negotiated-...
They're coming to take their Women... 1 child law blowback, Japan has to defend themselves, or loose all the young pussey
ok ok /s
Me think it´s not /s.
'Rape of the Sabine women' comes to mind.
"Japan Prepares Missile Blockade In East China Sea"
Japan following its orders from Washington. Besides, Abe gets to distract his people from a faltering economy.
China already infuriated by American challenges in the South China Sea, American weapons sales to Taiwan and now even Japan challenging its dominance in the South China Sea will not be pleased at all.
The world is a tinderbox today thanks to the Nobel Prize Winner.
It is China doing the challenging, pushing forward with multiple projects despite protests from those surrounding it. The problem with being the biggest guy on the block is that everyone else will gang up on you if you push too hard, and they will invite the biggest guy from the next neighborhood for good measure.
Here comes the widely anticipated East pivot from the State Dept. I suppose we can look forward to more Zippity Zionist Zachary Keck articles from his Kyoto bedsit to beat the drums of war.
Japan is nothing less than suicidal at this point - bankrupt, militarist and belligerent to boot. Not going to be pretty when Abe puts on his sex-face to shit out his war cries. As for China, riding on a tidal wave of their own debt sewage, they are asking for pain if they think the solution is mirroring the rest of the world's appetite for the MIC for short term gains in posture against the long term pain of debt servitude.
"Japan Prepares To Paint A Bullseye On Itself". Something like that, eh?
Proxy Wars
So the USSA has ordered their Tokyo Vassal to challenge the PRC.
Lose in Ukraine, Lose in Syria.
Open another Front.
Unless you Americans dismantle your Government, there will be War.
I can attest, for reasons I will not divulge, that the PRC/RF has weapons which will utterly decimate ZATO.
You can look forward to Repression in CONUS and military losses OCONUS.
Are those 'Oil Ships' off the coast loaded with Oil or soldiers?
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Downvoted by a Hasbara Troll.
You alone decide whether your .politburo lives or dies.
> I can attest, for reasons I will not divulge, that the PRC/RF has weapons which will utterly decimate ZATO. <
Russian Brother in Law has mentioned very much the same; his comment is "the equipment Russia sells overseas, whilst VERY good, is NOT the equipment Russia uses internally".
They are far from stupid, and they are very aware of Western ELINT activities, so the "specifications" and currently in-use performance is always downgraded, typically for their long wave radars. Commonsense will always suggest that intelligent forces may well "keep the best stuff hidden", and Russia has a LOT of commonsense, drummed in as a result of past major conflicts.
Further comments were along the lines of Russia using space-based as well as ground / air based surveillance systems to monitor their airspace, and approaches. Also the use of "non-radar, passive surveillance" which could mean IR, magnetometry, or even a proposed optical laser "barrier" (a system which has been investigated in the past - many articles in Russian-language scientific literature, using a very low-power durable solid state laser systems to create a "detection fence", especially designed to defeat "below the radar" approach patterns through mountain valleys, and similar geographic "radar screens")
The IR element is very interesting, since IR surveillance is a key role of weather satellites (of which Russia has a very comprehensive fleet). Their "peacetime" thermal resolution is better than 1 degree Celsius, and IR optic technology is very mature, so the ability to use an optical system to zoom in on a selected target has existed (at least in theory) for decades. Even for wide - area surveillance, it takes very little computing time to match moving IR targets to corresponding radar targets - any mis-match (IR moving at "aircraft speed", no matching radar echo) would be a very good indication of a stealth attack - and the IR surveillance system could certainly provide sufficient spatial resolution to allow queing of target acquisition / discrimination / track multiwavelength radars (of which Russia is the undisputed World leader).
Science fiction? These technologies were science FACT in the 1960's. Fifty years later, and you have to wonder what "interesting technologies" have been developed.
http://bankruptcynews.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFDBR0120151217ebchkofhp&...
The privately held Tulsa, Okla., company, which filed for chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., has a deal in place with a bondholder group that includes investment firms Varde Partners Inc ., PennantPark Investment Corp . and Millstreet Capital Management LLC that will erase more $400 million in debt from the company's books.
And its gone!
Beijing gets a largely undeserved bad rap over its efforts to claim and develop islands in the South China Sea — the Spratly and Paracel island groups especially. China has long historical links with the area. And the critics forget that in the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and the Allied Powers, Article 2(f), states: “Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Spratly Islands and to the Paracel Islands.”
Kissinger is on with Cavuto if anyone is interested to hear his take.
/sarc off
I look forward to his 200th birthday.
I look forward to his funeral.
A simpleton would ask, why the fuck did we ship all of our jobs to China so they could manufacture and sell us all kinds of shit so they could build a navy that threatens our sacred national security interests....never mind.
Billy Boy,
What's the big deal? We have the reserve currency of the world. We print it out of thin air and buy up products , resources and services everywhere. We are special and this will go on for ever! s/
The most bankrupt country in the world wants to pick a fight with the richest (reserves wise) country in the world. Yeah, that will work fine...
All history should tell the simpltons in the US that a hughly debtor country cannot defeat a hughly credit rich country.
This will only end one way: with the defeat or exhaustion of the US.
Let us hope it is the latter otherwise we are all going to be glowing very hot.
Why?
Because as someone once said: Capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them.
Well, at least the Chinese are doing something constructive, unlike the United States of High Fructose Corn Syrup which only excels at DESTRUCTION and WANTON DEMOLITION...Are the JAPS that fucking dumb?...
Yes. If you have a ship that is disabled and slowly sinking, you need to get towed by a ship that is disabled and slowly sinking. Ask any Japanese politician.
...or the USS Milwaukee.
So, China becomes a World Power.
The USSA cannot stand it.
Fat old bullies really hate it when those that they bullied evenually grow up.
Japan, failing empire from long ago, looking to fail again
you haven't made the big time until you nuke Japan
This is going to end well...
So Japan abandons its policy of national defense to go full-retard international bully, at US urging. Why? Because even though we can't stop those Chinese ships from sailing in international waters, by golly we can put them in our crosshairs. Brilliant. That should get the fireworks started.
Note to Japan: when the enemy is in range, so are you.
Japan is merely US puppet
So, does Japan get Nuked again? Not that is matters...Put them out of their misery.
WTF is up with Japan breaking bad and shit? Damn - they haven't forgotten their past I hope!
US puppets helping sow chaos
the chinese are super aggressive - they were in your computer long before the nsa. soon they will take the gloves off and start issuing directives to the rest of the world - you will be kissing their butts even more when that day comes
Are you a Cold War anti-communist corpse that has been brought back to life?
We don't want another of your Cold or Hot Wars.
Crawl back into your coffin and don't wake up again.
The Japanese government is remarkably calm about the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants- the disaster which keeps on giving- continuing to dump tons of high level radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. The cleanup (which Japan has barely started) costs for this disaster will be $ trillions; it appears that Japanese PM Abe is hoping that the Fukushima disaster is going to magically disappear. Despite the fact that the Japanese economy has been declining for over 2 decades and is also saddled with huge legacy costs for cleaning up the Fukushima meltdown, Japan apparently has enough spare cash lying around to build a string of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missile batteries stretching 1,400 km (870 miles) in the East China Sea.
My, my how the world turns.
The Japanese practiced vivisection on Philippine soldiers during WWII. (Vivisection is live anatomy classes practiced on live soldiers, and no, none survived.)
And now they will gift RP (Republic of Philippines) with warships.
Such is life.
no one is opposing the chinese take over of the western economies - instead we get this military crap as a distraction. when the kikes realise they have to start working with the chinese then we will really be in deep shit
Looks like the Kantai Collection arrived just in time!
<-- America's poodle Japan
nudged to start barking
pow pow