Japan Says It Faces Increasing Threats from China, North Korea

[jamhar]

(BTW the above graphic is too large, thus throwing this page off its margins.).

Sorry about that Pub. But i dont like to mess with raw data.

[SinglePot]

Have worked 10 years in china for differing projects working with government levels ..allow me to share my views

The press in china is decidedly pro-china and bashes the west ....as I travel to the west and USA, the press does the same and I think this is freedom of expression of views. There are views in British and USA papers that make me shudder at the one sided view but this is freedom of press

They are not new to commercial success...anyone with a chinese neighbor would know they have commerce in their DNA ..makes for greens eyes but the Chinese have been trading for thousand of years

Anyone who does not have a closed view also would have in their experiences great Chinese neighbors and friends as much as there are Chinese ones who are not open minded and not nice to deal with. The west similarly have the same and one cannot brush the experiences of one

U view it as a dictatorship ...if they adopt the western model where the democrats and the republicans have their own views and the government is changed every 4 years, would that best serve the interest of china with higher developmental needs and not making the same mistake of the west ?

In my opinion the 10 years work better for them and similarly china officials have observed what western democracy is and agrees it does not work for them.

As for the deploring conditions in factory, I agree with you and the government officials too. They have asked me repeatedly as I work with the western based companies not be such cheap asses and stop demanding cheap prices ...I agree too.

Pay the fair rates and the workers get better pay and there is less pollution in Beijing. Stop bashing china for poor quality goods when the orders are places by the customers

The recent meat scandals in Europe and price fixing of western milk companies show that the west is not beyond the blames and is also affected by the greed they freely accused china of.

As for tiananmen the wet use it as beacon of human rights oppression in china...they have improved over the years but the poster bashers are not keen ...similarly in the west there are thins to be ashamed of ...lots of discrimination and lots still get marginalized but this is life and u don't see the Chinese bashing the west for it

As for the shootings of prisoners ...I think less die for in china as compared to the innocent people who die from gunfire incidents ...

PS.

"Have worked 10 years in china for differing projects working with government levels ..allow me to share my views"

Which government?

[LawrenceChee]

Chongqing

Beijing

Ningbo

Nanning

Kunming

Shanghai

Shenyang

[SinglePot]

Chongqing

Beijing

Ningbo

Nanning

Kunming

Shanghai

Shenyang

Well, if your'e happy with a society that is illustrated by this example, up to you.

" I'm driving a BMW. You are riding a bicycle. Get out of my way you piece of sh***"

Maybe it's just a problem in Beijing.

[Scott]

Let's stay on the topic, please.

[mania]

Chongqing

Beijing

Ningbo

Nanning

Kunming

Shanghai

Shenyang

Well, if your'e happy with a society that is illustrated by this example, up to you.

" I'm driving a BMW. You are riding a bicycle. Get out of my way you piece of sh***"

Maybe it's just a problem in Beijing.

What a silly thing to say

You act as if that type of attitude among wealthy is exclusive to China.

As long as there are folks that like to preach separatism as you do

this world will never make any progress

[SinglePot]

Japan's concern is quite understandable.

[Sing_Sling]

Has the world ever known a powerful one party state dictatorship that doesn't have designs to lord over all the world?."

Many . . . We can start with A and count dozens until we reach Z

Albania

..............................

Zimbabwe

Just keeping it real as your anti-China rhetoric is increasing with every post . . . not that I disagree with everything you write, far from it . . . you just seem to be working yourself into a lather

[LawrenceChee]

Chongqing

Beijing

Ningbo

Nanning

Kunming

Shanghai

Shenyang

Well, if your'e happy with a society that is illustrated by this example, up to you.

" I'm driving a BMW. You are riding a bicycle. Get out of my way you piece of sh***"

Maybe it's just a problem in Beijing.

I hope you had time to inspect your BMW and check how many of those parts are made in china

Gasp ...maybe I should give u my bike made in Thailand ...you may feel so much better

Chill .....

[Publicus]

Chongqing

Beijing

Ningbo

Nanning

Kunming

Shanghai

Shenyang

Well, if your'e happy with a society that is illustrated by this example, up to you.

" I'm driving a BMW. You are riding a bicycle. Get out of my way you piece of sh***"

Maybe it's just a problem in Beijing.

I see you spend your time up North where ancient Chinese traditions and culture are much stronger than in the South. The South disapproves of Mandarin in favor of the Cantonese language and the many local dialects due to the fact Mandarin is rooted in the Manchurian language. Mandarin is the native language of only 53% of Chinese and isn't really Chinese given its Manchurian roots and determining influence, which is why it's vastly disapproved of in the South.

On the point of the culture of the automobile in the CCP-PRC, it's a barbarian culture. Go outside and all one hears is vehicle horns all the time from every direction. It really is the attitude I've seen nowhere else - I've got a 2000 pound machine and all you have is your human body, so get out of my way or I'll scrunch you people like the roaches that populate my house.

That is the completely real attitude of anyone in the CCP-PRC who drives a car, a motor vehicle. They park on every sidewalk and everywhere honk you out of their way. Every day I walked on the sidewalk I spend all of my time circumnavigating parked cars and motorcycles, a number of them often in motion. It was common that turning a corner on the sidewalk a car would come around and blast its horn at me to get out of its way - on the sidewalk.

The CCP-PRC is first in the world in traffic fatalities per 100,000 km driven and injuries by motor vehicle accidents per 100,000 km driven. They mass slaughter one another without a second thought.

Traffic throughout the CCP-PRC is anarchy and death, literally.

In Japan all the drivers actually break for a pedestrian. A driver will insist that he yield to you. No horns being blasted everywhere, all the time - they have brakes on motor vehicles in Japan and they use them constantly. A human life there is more important than your Lexus or Infinity every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Edited August 8, 2013 by Publicus

[SinglePot]

Not easy for me to chill having seen how Chinese with wealth treat their compatriots who have no wealth.

I'm not the guy driving the BMW and preaching separatism.

Rampant materialism and the old communist leadership.

Discordant but with one common element.

The traffic scenario is real and is also mirrored in business management.

Hierarchical bullying.

Edited August 8, 2013 by SinglePot

[Publicus]

Have worked 10 years in china for differing projects working with government levels ..allow me to share my views

The press in china is decidedly pro-china and bashes the west ....as I travel to the west and USA, the press does the same and I think this is freedom of expression of views. There are views in British and USA papers that make me shudder at the one sided view but this is freedom of press

They are not new to commercial success...anyone with a chinese neighbor would know they have commerce in their DNA ..makes for greens eyes but the Chinese have been trading for thousand of years

Anyone who does not have a closed view also would have in their experiences great Chinese neighbors and friends as much as there are Chinese ones who are not open minded and not nice to deal with. The west similarly have the same and one cannot brush the experiences of one

U view it as a dictatorship ...if they adopt the western model where the democrats and the republicans have their own views and the government is changed every 4 years, would that best serve the interest of china with higher developmental needs and not making the same mistake of the west ?

In my opinion the 10 years work better for them and similarly china officials have observed what western democracy is and agrees it does not work for them.

As for the deploring conditions in factory, I agree with you and the government officials too. They have asked me repeatedly as I work with the western based companies not be such cheap asses and stop demanding cheap prices ...I agree too.

Pay the fair rates and the workers get better pay and there is less pollution in Beijing. Stop bashing china for poor quality goods when the orders are places by the customers

The recent meat scandals in Europe and price fixing of western milk companies show that the west is not beyond the blames and is also affected by the greed they freely accused china of.

As for tiananmen the wet use it as beacon of human rights oppression in china...they have improved over the years but the poster bashers are not keen ...similarly in the west there are thins to be ashamed of ...lots of discrimination and lots still get marginalized but this is life and u don't see the Chinese bashing the west for it

As for the shootings of prisoners ...I think less die for in china as compared to the innocent people who die from gunfire incidents ...

I missed your above post so I'm replying only now. You got the gift of a reprieve but now the brief holiday is over. It's time for you to face facts again.

First, the mass media of the CCP-PRC operate under the Authoritarian Theory of the Press.

In the West we have the Social Responsibility Theory of the Press which evolved from the original Laissez Faire Theory of the Press. The mass media of the CCP-PRC are owned and operated by the one party state as an integral component of the one party absolutist state. In other words, the mass media arrangements of the CCP-PRC are one dimensional, dictatorial authoritarian.

CCTV, i.e., Central China Television (CCTV in the West means Closed Circuit Television, which is really what exists in the CCP-PRC) has 44 channels of the same same television programming. I do have to note the "creativity" of the CCP in saying the same thing in 44 different ways. The army owns and operates some of the 44 channels, the CCP has all of the rest.

So don't even think of comparing mass media in the CCP-PRC to mass media of the West. There is only contrast, stark contrast. The CCP one party state has to control the minds of 1,350,000,000 sheeple. That's radically opposite Western Media Thought and Philosophy.

The Social Responsibility Theory of the Press derives from democracy and the pluralism and diversity inherent to democracy.

The Chinese people have known only monolithic dictatorship continuously for 5000 years. The democratic peoples of the world are learning to govern themselves. It's a slow and often tough grind, but democracy constitutes our best possibility to attain a realistic version of a utopia, flawed as such a utopia might be compared to the unrealistic absolute perfection envisaged by utopia's original dreamers.

The CCP instead indoctrinates against democracy every day of the year, at home from birth, at school, at work, on CCTV - everywhere and always. The Chinese perhaps could use a little democracy, which is the modern and future form of government.

Those who don't yet have democracy, such as Myanmar to name one, aspire to it. What are the aspirations of the PRChinese? Only to get rich, period - nouveau filthy rich. It is a crass and vacuous purpose and a mindless one, which accounts for the fact the CCP-PRC is a culturally and socially barren outpost of the ancient past.

Democracy, which the CCP-PRchinese know nothing of, ended colonialism and the age of empire. Democracy ended slavery and provided the framework for the emergence and rise of a middle class, which is where Marx missed the boat.

The CCP-PRC however still thinks of the world as a place where empires rise and fall like the winter wheat. The CCP-PRC misses the point that the last and final empire was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and that the intellectually sterile conceptions of the CCP-PRC and its moral vacuousness are moving inexorably in the same direction, more rapidly with each passing year - each month now really.

The CCP-PRC with its irreversable giant property bubble and its deadweight huge bank credit morass, compounded by its top down massive and endemic corrupt dictatorship, is headed full speed into a great wall.

Sayonara CCP-PRC.

[Publicus]

Has the world ever known a powerful one party state dictatorship that doesn't have designs to lord over all the world?."

Many . . . We can start with A and count dozens until we reach Z

Albania

..............................

Zimbabwe

Just keeping it real as your anti-China rhetoric is increasing with every post . . . not that I disagree with everything you write, far from it . . . you just seem to be working yourself into a lather

Powerful.

[Scott]

Further posts about China only will be deleted. This thread is about Japan and the threat from China and NK.

Please stay on topic.

[Publicus]

Japan is taking the lead in East Asia in successfully foiling Beijing's present campaign to try to become the regionally dominant power. As Beijing gets new aircraft carriers, so does Japan. Additionally, while Beijing remains isolated in its neighbor from hell approach, Japan is reaching out to Europe to become more involved, beginning with the UK, thus lining up distant but influential allies. Japan already has forged new agreements and arrangements with India.

As has been stated previously at this thread, the United States regards Japan as the East Asia equivalent to the historical relationship between the U.S. and the UK. Each is an island country off the main continent, a part of the continent's affairs but simultaneously distant from the continent's muddlings and disdainful of its historical undercurrents. Japan is seen in Washington as an equal to the UK in its reliability and as completely sharing common interests and purposes.

Why China is Building More Aircraft Carriers

http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/08/05/why-china-is-building-more-aircraft-carriers/

Fear and honor are emotional needs. It may be that sending the carrier Liaoning (formerly the Soviet Varyag) to sea helped satisfy China's need to banish bad cultural memories. But who knows when fear will be at bay? Most importantly, it may be that having ameliorated anxieties arising from honor and fear grants Beijing the luxury of operating mostly from calculations of interest. Simply deploying a carrier, Liaoning, may forestall fears while satisfying Chinese society's desire for a capability that every other great power enjoys.

China's navy has ample shore-based firepower to back up its fleet while at sea. The PLA Navy, then, need not compete directly with the U.S. Navy to fulfill its operational aims. So long as Beijing confines its interests within range of shore-based fire support — within, say, 1,000 miles of Chinese coasts — the PLA Navy has little need for capabilities symmetrical with those of the United States and its allies. Even lesser carriers can get the job done if anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles, submarines, patrol craft, and combat aircraft can hold off the U.S. Navy, and if Asian navies are outclassed.

Japan’s Grandstanding in the East China Sea

http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/08/08/japans-grandstanding-in-the-east-china-sea/

Nifty bit of one-upmanship, Japan. The Naval Diplomat salutes the nonchalance with which the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) "unveiled" the 22DDH, its latest light aircraft carrier— I mean… helicopter destroyer — last Tuesday. It left the impression of a service that's accustomed to accomplishing great things, and thus takes them in stride. Cool beats braggadocio any day.

Mature naval powers construct and deploy warships in a matter-of-fact way, without the chest-thumping that's standard fare for a certain big Asian power across the Yellow Sea from Japan. They take care of business rather than monologuing about how feeble competitors are, how inevitable their defeat is, how Asia will soon be theirs, yadda yadda yadda.

The 22DDH is a serious platform. Displaying it reminds the Japanese people that theirs is a seafaring society guarded by a world-class if modest-sized navy. That's especially important for Japan, which is mulling a return to normalcy in world affairs after decades of pacifism.

Japan and the UK: Ties That Bind?

http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/09/japan-and-the-uk-ties-that-bind/

Chatham House, the august think-tank, hosted a seminar on the nascent Japan-U.K. strategic partnership in late June.

On July 4, at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, Prime Minister David Cameron and current Kantei resident, Shinzo Abe, confirmed a Chatham House paper with two documents – a Defence Equipment Cooperation Framework and an Information Security Agreement. They also confirmed an agreement on the countries' joint development of a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) suit. Japanese officials also said that the agreement included sharing classified information, including military intelligence.

For Tokyo, the relationship continues the path to normalization – and broadens its potential allies, including another permanent member of the UN Security Council. For the U.K., it is another friendly face in the world's most dynamic region, a potential defense partner in subsystems – one of the key areas of defense technology development in the 21st Century – and a likeminded ally in international affairs. There's enough there for each to be happy about.

[SinglePot]

P51 Mustang. Cadillac of the Skies.

You listening China?

Japan has allies.

[Publicus]

The problem for Japan and all of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region is that the CCP's PLA military capability has totally surpassed what it needs for national defense only.

People's Liberation Army's strength has greatly increased due to the PRChina's economic prosperity since the early 1990s. The growing military capability not only brings regional complications in Northeast Asia, but also is a source of great consternation and worry in Japan in particular.

The CCP claims that the PLA's strength is built to assure "homeland security," but its actual development has exceeded this standard. The CCP's defense budget has increased by an annual percentage of two digits and, except for an occasional well calculated flourish, as with its aircraft carrier, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In addition, he modernization is comprehensive and long-term, including the developments of state-of-the-art anti-ship middle range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, advanced nuclear submarines, long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and cyber attack capability, new generations of aircraft fighters, and anti-space attack systems. The CCP's sinister intentions and motivations behind this huge buildup also makes the entire international community concerned, especially in respect to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region, to include Oceana.

However, the threat from North Korea worries Japan even more than does the recent aggressions by the CCP. North Korean threats to Japan are predicated on its nuclear tests and missile technology. Consequently and understandably, Japan has decided to conduct a series of military actions and preparations to respond.

North Korea‟s recent missile tests of the Taepo-dong-2 provoked Tokyo to deploy its Ballistic Missile Defense system to intercept North Korean missile attacks and missile debris which might have the possibility to fall into Japanese territory.

Further, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) has deployed two Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) batteries in Honshu and other two batteries in Tokyo near the Japan Ministry of Defense.To elevate its security level, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) has dispatched two U.S. built Aegis destroyers to the Sea of Japan and vicinity. One of the same class of Patriot missiles also was deployed to Japan's Pacific front.

The U.S. has deployed five Aegis destroyers around Japan to defend against any missile attack by Pyongyang. Japan regards North Korea‟s nuclear tests and missile technology development as a deadly serious form of military provocation.

Anyone who wants a thorough and serious read of the precarious military situation between Japan on the one hand, supported by its treaty ally the United States, and the CCP-PRC and N Korea, should settle in with a pot of coffee (Irish preferably ) to give his full attention to the excellent paper linked below written by Taiwan's brilliant Army Colonel, Chen Chia Sheng, Ph.D.

The paper includes the role of Taiwan in opposition to the aggressions and bellicosity of the Boyz in Beijing in their neighbor from hell policies of the post 2008 Beijing Olympic Games nationalism and surge of PRChinese pride and stridency - in ways that are extremely unpleasant to Beijing which, of course, continues to fiercely consider Taiwan as a province of the CCP-PRC.

Japanese Strategy and Response to the Rise of China

http://www.fhk.ndu.edu.tw/mediafile/833/fdownload/393/552/2011-3-29-15-33-13-552-nf1.pdf

It is appropriate to clarify the Japanese response to China‟s rise by way of the integrated security concept - simply put, the concept of security has to be divided into three dimensions, that is, the traditional security phase which consists of the external threat, the second phase, economic development and trade, and the third phase, the related non-traditional security issues.

This article shows that the U.S.- Japanese coalition is significant to the interests of both countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Japan has to be well prepared militarily in response to China's military rise, that is, Tokyo has to take a confrontational stance against Beijing.

Edited August 10, 2013 by Publicus

[LawrenceChee]

The problem for Japan and all of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region is that the CCP's PLA military capability has totally surpassed what it needs for national defense only.

People's Liberation Army's strength has greatly increased due to the PRChina's economic prosperity since the early 1990s. The growing military capability not only brings regional complications in Northeast Asia, but also is a source of great consternation and worry in Japan in particular.

The CCP claims that the PLA's strength is built to assure "homeland security," but its actual development has exceeded this standard. The CCP's defense budget has increased by an annual percentage of two digits and, except for an occasional well calculated flourish, as with its aircraft carrier, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In addition, he modernization is comprehensive and long-term, including the developments of state-of-the-art anti-ship middle range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, advanced nuclear submarines, long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and cyber attack capability, new generations of aircraft fighters, and anti-space attack systems. The CCP's sinister intentions and motivations behind this huge buildup also makes the entire international community concerned, especially in respect to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region, to include Oceana.

Chia Sheng, Ph.D.

The paper includes the role of Taiwan in opposition to the aggressions and bellicosity of the Boyz in Beijing in their neighbor from hell policies of the post 2008 Beijing Olympic Games nationalism and surge of PRChinese pride and stridency - in ways that are extremely unpleasant to Beijing which, of course, continues to fiercely consider Taiwan as a province of the CCP-PRC.

Japanese Strategy and Response to the Rise of China

http://www.fhk.ndu.edu.tw/mediafile/833/fdownload/393/552/2011-3-29-15-33-13-552-nf1.pdf

It is appropriate to clarify the Japanese response to China‟s rise by way of the integrated security concept - simply put, the concept of security has to be divided into three dimensions, that is, the traditional security phase which consists of the external threat, the second phase, economic development and trade, and the third phase, the related non-traditional security issues.

I suppose all this is the same with amount of firepower the USA and western powers have and it's okay for them to have that and not for others as it is a threat

It's precisely for this amount of hate that china needs to be strong and be self protected

It's becoming a china bashing thread as usual ...sad to see people would rather criticize china and hate them rather than try to understand a new superpower in the making

But such is the life of Asians ...rarely understood and mostly misunderstood

I can understand the unease of the west ...when I went with my clients to bail out the bankrupt hotels ..we were met with scorn rather than helping the economy out ...if it was a western company they will be deemed as a savior

[Scott]

Being critical of a country's gov't and its intentions is not necessarily bashing, provided that is what the topic is about. In the case of this thread, most comments have directed at the gov'ts of China, Japan and North Korea.

The basic question is do you think it is fair to trust the intentions of China (or Japan and NK)? That question is certainly posed in may threads about the US involvement throughout the world.

[Scott]

An off-topic post has been deleted. This thread is not about the US and it's relationship to Iraq or Mexico. Please stay on the topic of this thread.

[mania]

This positioning by Japan is little more than a cry wolf situation driven mainly by their desire for the disputed islands. Making claims only to bolster a reason to be allowed to build their offensive capabilities not defensive.

A reason is needed as their own history of aggressive action has them in a spot where they are limited by what they may do in that area. Which by the way is not enforced on them by China

Once again folks will jump on China claiming they are big & bad & not to be trusted. Yet when one judges events by actual actions one will see China is not now & has not been the aggressor that many would like to make them out to be.

They have been money lenders & have trillions of reasons not to want to start any wars with those who owe them or who are customers. Is the opposite true? They are also mainly interested in trade & that is another reason for them not to be upsetting customers.

They have built their military yes but not in looking for world dominance as many like to claim but out of necessity in keeping up with others who like to taunt & hold games nearby. Who would do different?

Edited August 11, 2013 by mania

[baboon]

The problem for Japan and all of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region is that the CCP's PLA military capability has totally surpassed what it needs for national defense only.

People's Liberation Army's strength has greatly increased due to the PRChina's economic prosperity since the early 1990s. The growing military capability not only brings regional complications in Northeast Asia, but also is a source of great consternation and worry in Japan in particular.

The CCP claims that the PLA's strength is built to assure "homeland security," but its actual development has exceeded this standard. The CCP's defense budget has increased by an annual percentage of two digits and, except for an occasional well calculated flourish, as with its aircraft carrier, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In addition, he modernization is comprehensive and long-term, including the developments of state-of-the-art anti-ship middle range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, advanced nuclear submarines, long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and cyber attack capability, new generations of aircraft fighters, and anti-space attack systems. The CCP's sinister intentions and motivations behind this huge buildup also makes the entire international community concerned, especially in respect to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region, to include Oceana.

Chia Sheng, Ph.D.

The paper includes the role of Taiwan in opposition to the aggressions and bellicosity of the Boyz in Beijing in their neighbor from hell policies of the post 2008 Beijing Olympic Games nationalism and surge of PRChinese pride and stridency - in ways that are extremely unpleasant to Beijing which, of course, continues to fiercely consider Taiwan as a province of the CCP-PRC.

Japanese Strategy and Response to the Rise of China

http://www.fhk.ndu.edu.tw/mediafile/833/fdownload/393/552/2011-3-29-15-33-13-552-nf1.pdf

It is appropriate to clarify the Japanese response to China‟s rise by way of the integrated security concept - simply put, the concept of security has to be divided into three dimensions, that is, the traditional security phase which consists of the external threat, the second phase, economic development and trade, and the third phase, the related non-traditional security issues.

I suppose all this is the same with amount of firepower the USA and western powers have and it's okay for them to have that and not for others as it is a threat

It's precisely for this amount of hate that china needs to be strong and be self protected

It's becoming a china bashing thread as usual ...sad to see people would rather criticize china and hate them rather than try to understand a new superpower in the making

But such is the life of Asians ...rarely understood and mostly misunderstood

I can understand the unease of the west ...when I went with my clients to bail out the bankrupt hotels ..we were met with scorn rather than helping the economy out ...if it was a western company they will be deemed as a savior

Don't despair, Lawrence. More and more people worldwide are sick and tired of being instructed who to hate and no longer buying into all the propaganda.

[LawrenceChee]

The problem for Japan and all of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region is that the CCP's PLA military capability has totally surpassed what it needs for national defense only.

People's Liberation Army's strength has greatly increased due to the PRChina's economic prosperity since the early 1990s. The growing military capability not only brings regional complications in Northeast Asia, but also is a source of great consternation and worry in Japan in particular.

The CCP claims that the PLA's strength is built to assure "homeland security," but its actual development has exceeded this standard. The CCP's defense budget has increased by an annual percentage of two digits and, except for an occasional well calculated flourish, as with its aircraft carrier, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In addition, he modernization is comprehensive and long-term, including the developments of state-of-the-art anti-ship middle range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, advanced nuclear submarines, long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and cyber attack capability, new generations of aircraft fighters, and anti-space attack systems. The CCP's sinister intentions and motivations behind this huge buildup also makes the entire international community concerned, especially in respect to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region, to include Oceana.

Chia Sheng, Ph.D.

The paper includes the role of Taiwan in opposition to the aggressions and bellicosity of the Boyz in Beijing in their neighbor from hell policies of the post 2008 Beijing Olympic Games nationalism and surge of PRChinese pride and stridency - in ways that are extremely unpleasant to Beijing which, of course, continues to fiercely consider Taiwan as a province of the CCP-PRC.

Japanese Strategy and Response to the Rise of China

http://www.fhk.ndu.edu.tw/mediafile/833/fdownload/393/552/2011-3-29-15-33-13-552-nf1.pdf

It is appropriate to clarify the Japanese response to China‟s rise by way of the integrated security concept - simply put, the concept of security has to be divided into three dimensions, that is, the traditional security phase which consists of the external threat, the second phase, economic development and trade, and the third phase, the related non-traditional security issues.

I suppose all this is the same with amount of firepower the USA and western powers have and it's okay for them to have that and not for others as it is a threat

It's precisely for this amount of hate that china needs to be strong and be self protected

It's becoming a china bashing thread as usual ...sad to see people would rather criticize china and hate them rather than try to understand a new superpower in the making

But such is the life of Asians ...rarely understood and mostly misunderstood

I can understand the unease of the west ...when I went with my clients to bail out the bankrupt hotels ..we were met with scorn rather than helping the economy out ...if it was a western company they will be deemed as a savior

Don't despair, Lawrence. More and more people worldwide are sick and tired of being instructed who to hate and no longer buying into all the propaganda.

Agree ...! People all over the world slowly realized to create scenarios and fear keep the politicians in their jobs and its boring and stupid

China will not start a war with Japan as it is not in their interests and commercial thoughts will always be at their top of their heads but the ability to protect yourself with a strong military is a deterrent more than a threat

I grew up in Singapore and the amount of hardware they have there for an island this small is ridiculous but good to keep its bigger neighbors from thinking they will be a pushover.

China is doing the same and when you have almost 20% of the world population it becomes more relevant.

99% of the people worldwide just want a stable family , safe place to work and play for their kids and for their children to grow up in a better place

[SinglePot]

"China is doing the same and when you have almost 20% of the world population it becomes more relevant."

Is Japan concerned that 20% of the world's population is controlled by a non elected communist party regime?

Are Japan's allies from countries where governments are democratically elected concerned that 1 in 5 people in the world are controlled by a small minority of CCP officials?

Big power in a small number of hands is perhaps not entirely beneficial for the world at large.

[Publicus]

The problem for Japan and all of the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region is that the CCP's PLA military capability has totally surpassed what it needs for national defense only.

People's Liberation Army's strength has greatly increased due to the PRChina's economic prosperity since the early 1990s. The growing military capability not only brings regional complications in Northeast Asia, but also is a source of great consternation and worry in Japan in particular.

The CCP claims that the PLA's strength is built to assure "homeland security," but its actual development has exceeded this standard. The CCP's defense budget has increased by an annual percentage of two digits and, except for an occasional well calculated flourish, as with its aircraft carrier, has been shrouded in secrecy.

In addition, he modernization is comprehensive and long-term, including the developments of state-of-the-art anti-ship middle range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, advanced nuclear submarines, long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and cyber attack capability, new generations of aircraft fighters, and anti-space attack systems. The CCP's sinister intentions and motivations behind this huge buildup also makes the entire international community concerned, especially in respect to the Indo-Pacific Strategic Region, to include Oceana.

Chia Sheng, Ph.D.

The paper includes the role of Taiwan in opposition to the aggressions and bellicosity of the Boyz in Beijing in their neighbor from hell policies of the post 2008 Beijing Olympic Games nationalism and surge of PRChinese pride and stridency - in ways that are extremely unpleasant to Beijing which, of course, continues to fiercely consider Taiwan as a province of the CCP-PRC.

Japanese Strategy and Response to the Rise of China

http://www.fhk.ndu.edu.tw/mediafile/833/fdownload/393/552/2011-3-29-15-33-13-552-nf1.pdf

It is appropriate to clarify the Japanese response to China‟s rise by way of the integrated security concept - simply put, the concept of security has to be divided into three dimensions, that is, the traditional security phase which consists of the external threat, the second phase, economic development and trade, and the third phase, the related non-traditional security issues.

I suppose all this is the same with amount of firepower the USA and western powers have and it's okay for them to have that and not for others as it is a threat

It's precisely for this amount of hate that china needs to be strong and be self protected

It's becoming a china bashing thread as usual ...sad to see people would rather criticize china and hate them rather than try to understand a new superpower in the making

But such is the life of Asians ...rarely understood and mostly misunderstood

I can understand the unease of the west ...when I went with my clients to bail out the bankrupt hotels ..we were met with scorn rather than helping the economy out ...if it was a western company they will be deemed as a savior

You make the classic CCP-PRChinese obsenity of trying to create a moral equivalence between the tyrant dictators of the CCP and the diverse democracies of the West, focusing of course - as the CCP does 100% of the time - on the United States and against China's historical object of hate, Japan.

The CCP has closed the circle of communism and fascism, having become a 21st century fascist state with Chinese characteristics and traits. The CCP is a dictatorship, which is an ancient form of government and which, by its very nature, is opposite and against the modern and future form of government, democracy. The CCP is thus a politically reactionary, censoring, indoctrinating, punishing, regimented state and society which hates Western parliamentary systems and teaches every day against parliamentary systems.

If anyone thinks historically that the British and the French hate each other, or that the French and the Germans hate each other - historically speaking - then one has to spend some appreciable time in the CCP-PRC to see not only the hate the Chinese have of the Japanese, but the virulent detestation the Chinese have of Japan. Ninety-nine percent of the PRChinese don't want to see one blade of grass remain alive in Japan and will gladly die a thousand deaths to accomplish this wicked purpose.

The PRChinese sheeple, due to their history and more recent CCP indoctrination, fail to see that in themselves they have become the cruel and arrogant Showa-led Japanese of World War II (1926-1945).

I'd strongly suggest you get out another pot of coffee to read the following CCP doctrine of madness against the United States and Japan, in this PLA report to the CCP Politburo that dissidents several years afterward smuggled out of the CCP-PRC:

War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century CCP Defense Minister Argues for Exterminating U.S. Population

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-8/31055.html

"Comrade Mao Zedong said that if we could lead our allies to victory and make them benefit, they would support us, therefore, as long as we can lead the Chinese people outside of China, resolving the lack of living space in China - leibensraum - the Chinese people will support us. At that time, we don't have to worry about the labels of "totalitarianism" or "dictatorship." Whether we can forever represent the Chinese people depends on whether we can succeed in leading the Chinese people out of China."

Edited August 11, 2013 by Publicus

[EyesWideOpen]

Here is a map of the claims of China in the South China Sea.

See anything wrong ?? Hey I wonder if the USA should start doing that, claiming islands off the coast of Mexico and Canada... :-)

Edited August 11, 2013 by EyesWideOpen

[Publicus]

Here is a map of the claims of China in the South China Sea.

See anything wrong ?? Hey I wonder if the USA should start doing that, claiming islands off the coast of Mexico and Canada... :-)

Yeah, and in what would be consistent with Beijing's deranged logic and thinking, the Gulf of Mexico rightfully belongs to Mexico. Mexico of course would never imagine to make such an absurd and illegal claim.

And the Sea of Japan belongs to Japan. Japan of course makes no such wild and illegal claim.

One could go on just taking a glance at the bodies of water on the map of the world - the Gulf of Thailand, the Indian Ocean. Does Henry Hudson or his descendants own the Hudson Bay?

What makes the CCP-PRC think they're so special as to claim an entire sea as their sovereign territory? The claim runs counter to the UN Convention of the International Law of the Sea, to which Beijing is a signatory. Of course, when Beijing signed the UNCLOS, it attached a caveat statement saying none of the provisions apply if Beijing says they don't apply to it.

How convenient.

How illegal.

How anti-international law, processes, procedures, protocols.

That gang in Beijing is one whopper of a bunch.

[Publicus]

The TPP is the Trans Pacific Partnership initiated last year by the United States as a part of its "rebalancing" toward East Asia and the Indian Ocean regions, to include Oceana. It is primarily a trade organization but includes all manners of a broad economic interrelationship among its member countries.

The countries currently involved in the TPP negotiations — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam — have agreed to strike a basic deal in October and to conclude an accord by the end of the year. Plans exist to further expand the member countries of the TPP, to include Japan. Thailand late last year asked to enter the negotiations but has been a laggard.

The CCP-PRC is not eligible for membership.

The TPP, Abenomics and America’s Asia Pivot

The TPP talks are critical for both Japan’s future and U.S. Asia policy.

http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/06/the-tpp-abenomics-and-americas-asia-pivot/

Japan’s entrance into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade treaty negotiations is arguably the most important event in U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific in the last decade.

This is because the sustainability of long-term American strategic power in Asia and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s attempts to resuscitate the Japanese economy are entirely co-dependent.

Without an economically resurgent Japan, Asia will be increasingly sucked away from the U.S. and into the Chinese economic and strategic orbit, so Washington’s Asia pivot is not complete without a Japan-powered TPP, which both supports its growing Asia-Pacific political and security alliance and acts as an economic containment treaty against China.

[Scott]

A racist post has been removed as well as a reply.

Please exercise care in commenting about the people of a country.

[SinglePot]

Here is a map of the claims of China in the South China Sea.

See anything wrong ?? Hey I wonder if the USA should start doing that, claiming islands off the coast of Mexico and Canada... :-)

Yep. I can see clearly now.

Wife of Phillipino fisherman is saying get off my spratleys.