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by matsuki » Mon Dec 16, 2013 2:30 pm
Russell wrote:Tsuru wrote:Next step: the US flies a couple of carrier based fighters at mach 1+ right past the bridge of any Chinese ship looking to start shit. Time to spill some coffee (tea?) and pop some eardrums.
Anyone want to make a bet how many more months it will take before the Liaoning is sent to the bottom of the SCS?
The question is whether it will be sent down by China itself (due to incompetence) or by the US.
My bets are on China!
by Russell » Mon Dec 30, 2013 2:06 pm
The Foreign Ministry plans to invite more than 100 U.S. and European journalists stationed in China and South Korea to come to Japan early next year to school them on the government’s stance on two territorial disputes involving tiny islands.
The ministry will take the scribes to Okinawa Prefecture, which administers the Senkaku Islands claimed by China and Taiwan as Diaoyu and Tiaoyutai, and to Shimane Prefecture, which lays claim to Dokdo, the South Korea-controlled islets called Takeshima by Japan.
The trips will allow the reporters to be briefed by experts on the disputes and interview local people over a 10-day span, government officials said.
The ministry earmarked ¥200 million for the project in the extra budget for fiscal 2013.
The plan reflects the government’s apparent need to counter China’s growing international profile. Many U.S. and European news organizations have relocated offices from Japan to China.
In 1997, 295 foreign media companies kept branch offices in Tokyo compared with 209 this year, but Beijing hosted 385 branch offices this year versus 210 in 2004.
“We will be able to see a high investment effect (through this project) by winning U.S. and European reporters over to our side,” a ministry official said.
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by Coligny » Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:37 pm
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by Russell » Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:04 pm
A Chinese man was rescued by the Japan Coast Guard after a failed attempt to land a hot-air balloon on islands at the center of a bitter dispute between Tokyo and Beijing, a Japanese official said Thursday.
Xu Shuaijun, 35, who is a cook, took off from Fujian province on Wednesday morning, aiming to land on one of the Tokyo-controlled islands, known as the Senkakus in Japanese and Diaoyus in Chinese, the coast guard official said.
But he sent a rescue request when he got into trouble near the islands in the East China Sea hours later, the official said.
A Japanese rescue helicopter found the balloon 22 kilometers south of the islands and rescued the man, who was unhurt, the official said. He was handed over to a Chinese patrol ship outside territorial waters.
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by torasan » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:10 am
by Russell » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:41 am
by Yokohammer » Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:48 am
by matsuki » Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:03 am
Russell wrote:But then again, if we call them the Pinnacle Islands, the Merikens may claim them...
by IparryU » Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:44 am
torasan wrote:These islands were formerly called the PINNACLE islands, since that is their translation from SEN KAKU islands, so let's just refer to them for international news in English as the Pinnacle Islands? Most foreigners reading the news overseas see the word SENKAKU and it goes in one ear and out the other, and same with the Chinese name DAIOTAIYU islands, in one ear out the other, but if we call them by their real English name -- the Pinnacle Islands -- easy to remember, and who knows the name might be symbolic in more ways than one: the pinnacle of hubris and other such concepts?
by Coligny » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:57 am
Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan
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, according the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET).
by matsuki » Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:09 pm
by Coligny » Wed Feb 26, 2014 4:32 pm
by matsuki » Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:15 pm
Coligny wrote:What surprise me most is that we are still manufacturing in China, quality is still abysmal, price going quickly up... Soon they'll be as bloated and useless as 1980 american manufacturing. At least for cars they are already there... Dong Feng or Greatwall deathtrap anyone ?
It's good for the economies around (Thailand, Vietnam, Philippine...) but bad for their safety...
In Europe, pretty sure the Krauts are waiting just for this to restart the Ruhr's factories...
by Coligny » Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:55 pm
by Coligny » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:41 am
China's toxic air pollution resembles nuclear winter, say scientists
Air pollution now impeding photosynthesis and potentially wreaking havoc on country's food supply, experts warn
by Russell » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:57 am
by matsuki » Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:17 am
by Coligny » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:59 pm
by yanpa » Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:11 pm
chokonen888 wrote:
Don't breath the air, don't drink the water, don't eat the food....mutant apocalypse in 3..2..1
by Russell » Fri May 16, 2014 9:51 am
At least 21 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in Vietnam on Thursday during violent protests against China in one of the deadliest confrontations between the two neighbours since 1979.
Crowds set fire to industrial parks and factories, hunted down Chinese workers and attacked police during the riots, which have spread from the south to the central part of the country following the start of the protests on Tuesday.
The violence has been sparked by the dispute concerning China stationing an oil rig in an area of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam. The two nations have been fighting out a maritime battle over sovereignty and that battle has now seemingly come ashore.
Early Thursday morning a 1,000-strong mob stormed a giant Taiwanese steel mill in Ha Tinh province, central Vietnam, where they set buildings ablaze and chased out Chinese employees, according to a Taiwanese diplomat, Huang Chih-peng. He said both the head of the provincial government, and his security chief, were at the mill at the time of the riots, but did not "order tough-enough action".
Five Vietnamese workers, and 16 others described as Chinese, were killed during the rioting, a doctor at a hospital in Ha Tinh told Reuters. An additional 90 people were injured in the attack.
"There were about 100 people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning," the doctor said.
The attack on the steel mill comes just two days after other mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in south Vietnam, believing they were Chinese-run, though many were actually Taiwanese or South Korean.
No deaths were reported in those initial attacks, and the Vietnamese government has since tried to crack down on protesters. More than 600 have been arrested since Tuesday.
The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.
More than 600 are believed to have gone to Cambodia, while scores gathered at Ho Chi Minh airport and bought one-way tickets to Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and China.
On Thursday, China's embassy in Vietnam urged the police to take "effective measures" to protect Chinese citizens' safety and legal rights. China's tourism administration urged Vietnam-bound tourists to carefully consider their plans, while Taiwan's ministry of foreign affairs was printing thousands of stickers saying "I am from Taiwan" in Vietnamese and English and distributing them to local Taiwanese business owners, to help them avoid the wrath of anti-China mobs.
Anti-Chinese sentiment, while never far below the surface in Vietnam, has hit a formidable peak since Beijing's deployment of the oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea on 1 May.
In an attempt to assert sovereignty Vietnam quickly sent a flotilla of ships to the area; these became involved in skirmishes with 80 Chinese boats sent to protect the oil rig. China accused the Vietnamese ships of ramming its vessels after the Chinese fleet deployed water cannon against the Vietnamese. On Wednesday China reportedly sent two amphibious ships equipped with anti-air missiles as further defence.
The Vietnamese government has issued stark warnings to the Chinese that this "aggression", which had to date been met with Vietnamese diplomacy, would turn ugly if it continued.
Vietnam would "make no concession to China's wrongful acts", Major General Nguyen Quang Dam, the coast guard commander, told local media. He said: "Their violent acts have posed serious threats to the lives of Vietnamese members of law enforcement."
An article in the English-language daily Vietnam News was just as blunt: "The Vietnamese people are angry. The nation is angry. We are telling the world that we are angry. We have every right to be angry. "
"Over thousands of years we have shown we never cease fighting aggressors. We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers, and resistance is in our blood. We are a small country, but we are not weak. We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity."
China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, urged Vietnam "not to attempt to further complicate and aggravate the current maritime friction", according to the state-run Global Times newspaper.
The paper said that Wang told Indonesia's foreign affairs minister, Marty Natalegawa: "China's position on safeguarding its legitimate sovereign rights and interests is firm and clear and will not change." .
On Thursday night China's top military leader blamed the Obama administration's new focus on Asia for various disputes in the East and South China seas, saying "some neighbouring countries" are using it as an opportunity to provoke problems.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing. He defended China's deployment of an oil rig in the South China Sea and said Beijing has no intention of abandoning the drilling despite the protests it has spawned in Vietnam.
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by yanpa » Fri May 16, 2014 9:54 am
Russell wrote:Hmm, looks like the Chinese are at the wrong side of riots against businesses this time...
by Coligny » Fri May 16, 2014 10:35 am
by Coligny » Fri May 16, 2014 10:39 am
by matsuki » Fri May 16, 2014 11:40 am
by legion » Fri May 16, 2014 9:23 pm
by yanpa » Fri May 16, 2014 10:26 pm
legion wrote:yep, and when there isn't an island to dispute, build one!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/what-is-china-building-on-this-tiny-island-philippines-government-releases-image-of-reclamation-in-the-south-china-sea-9376289.html
What is China building on this tiny island?
by yanpa » Fri May 16, 2014 10:32 pm
Coligny wrote:Got a shittons of non civy air traffic this morning, fixed and heavy rotary wings, few pointy too. getting noisily boring.
Nikkei wrote:Japan fighters scramble more to see off Chinese, Russians
TOKYO -- Tensions are growing over Japanese airspace, with the number of scrambles by Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighters to intercept intruders rising to a 24-year high in fiscal 2013.
JASDF fighters were scrambled 810 times, or 2.2 times per day, in the year ended in March, an increase of 243 from the previous year, according to data released by the Defense Ministry in April. That was highest number of scrambles since fiscal 1990, at the end of the Cold War.
Of the total takeoffs, 51 percent were to monitor Chinese planes, while 44 percent were to keep an eye on Russian aircraft. Intrusions by Chinese aircraft into Japan's airspace rose sharply to 415 in fiscal 2013, up 35% on the year and the largest number since the ministry began releasing country-by-country data in fiscal 2001. In fiscal 2008, there were just 31 scrambles against Chinese planes; since then, the number has risen 13-fold.
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by Coligny » Fri May 16, 2014 10:40 pm
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