'Japan to list China as major threat' <Duh.>

[Taro Toporific]

Duh, who do Chinese hate more than anyone else?
Japan to list China as major threat
Thursday, September 16, 2004
The New York Times / by James Brooke NYT
TOKYO ---Reflecting growing wariness between the two giants of Asia, an advisory panel to Japan's prime minister will recommend that China be viewed as a potential military threat for the first time...

[Skankster]

Here it comes... will China ally with the Arab nations? Will China start supplying them weapons? Japan will stay staunchly on the US side. Which way will Russia go?

[Taro Toporific]

Here it comes... will China ally with the Arab nations? Will China start supplying them weapons? Japan will stay staunchly on the US side. Which way will Russia go?

Gee. Let me guess....
Russia has got oil, hates Muslims and is soured on the Chinese as a race.

[mr. sparkle]

[tonikoro]

Japan will stay staunchly on the US side.

So when again is Japan scheduled to become the 51st state in the Union?

I kid you, but it does eems strange that this type of tension would arise when both parties have NK on their plates.

[devicenull]

so.... they finally find a way to get the economy to turn around by investing in china, then they declare china a threat. japan = stupid... there, i said it.

[cstaylor]

so.... they finally find a way to get the economy to turn around by investing in china, then they declare china a threat. japan = stupid... there, i said it.

Just because countries provide a military threat doesn't mean you stop trading with them.