if we don't get these "elites" out !!! "they" r gonna fuck US ALL :o "they" R mad hatters folks .
Eric Margolislewrockwell
Will There Be a US War on China?
February 10, 2013 http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/02/10/will-there-be-a-us-war-on-china/
On
30 January, a Chinese Jiangwei II-class frigate entered the disputed
waters around the Senkaku Islands, a cluster of uninhabited rocks in the
East China Sea claimed by China as the Diaoyu Islands. A Japanese
destroyer was waiting.
When
the two warships were only 3 km apart, the Chinese frigate turned on
its fire control radar that aims its 100mm gun and C-802 anti-ship
missiles and “painted” the Japanese vessel. The Japanese destroyer went
to battle stations and targeted its weapons on the Chinese intruder.
Fortunately,
both sides backed down. But this was the most dangerous confrontation
to date over the disputed Senkakus. Japan and China were a button push
from war.
Soon
after, a Japanese naval helicopter was again “painted’ by Chinese fire
control radar. Earlier, Chinese aircraft made a clear intrusion over
waters claimed by Japan.
China’s Peoples Liberation Army HQ ordered the armed forces onto high alert and reportedly moved large numbers of warplanes and missile batteries to the East China Sea coast.
A
US AWACS radar aircraft went on station to monitor the Senkaku/Diaoyus –
a reminder that under the 1951 US-Japan mutual defense treaty,
Washington recognized the Senkaku Islands as part of Japan and pledged
to defend them if attacked. Japan seized the Senkakus as a prize of its
1894-95 war with Imperial China.
China’s
state-run media claimed the US was pushing Japan into a confrontation
with Beijing to keep China on the strategic defensive.
Japan’s
newly elected government led by conservative PM Shinzo Abe vowed to
face down with China. Spasms of angry nationalism erupted in both
feuding nations. The Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, who also claim the
Senkakus, chimed in with their territorial demands.
A
special Chinese crisis group led by new President Xi Jinping has been
set up to deal with the Senkakus – meaning any clash there may be more
likely to become a major crisis.
Shades
of August, 1914, when swaggering, breast-beating, and a bloody incident
triggered World War I, a conflict few wanted but none could avoid.
Japan
is in a difficult situation over the Senkakus. Its nearest air bases
are in Okinawa, 500 km away; Japan’s main airbases are 1,000 km further
to the Northeast. Japan’s F-15J strike aircraft have the combat range to
cover the Senkakus but they cannot linger for long with full bomb loads
due to the long distances involved. By contrast, Chinese warplanes
based on the coast near Fuzhou are well within range of the Diaoyus.
Japan’s
defense architecture was built to stop an invasion by the Soviet Union.
Its so-called Self Defense Forces are able but not configured for
long-range offensive operations. China’s are. They have been redesigned
with a major amphibious invasion of Taiwan and a fight with the US
Seventh Fleet in mind.
Unless
US carrier strike groups intervened, Japan would probably face defeat
in a clash with China over the islands, a fact that has Tokyo deeply
worried. This latest crisis again reminds Tokyo that it is naked before
China’s nuclear weapons. This week’s incursions over Northern Japan by
Russian warplanes did nothing to calm Tokyo’s nerves.
However,
war between China and Japan sounds as crazy and illogical as war
between China and the US. Japan is China’s largest foreign investor,
having discreetly built much of China’s industry. China is a major
export market for Japan. A war against China would shatter Japan’s
prosperity and force it to embark on a hugely expensive armaments
campaign, including building nuclear weapons – which it has the
capability to do in 90 days.
China
has no desire to fight the United States unless absolutely necessary,
and less to spark a US trade embargo. China holds over $1 trillion in US
government debt. Beijing has no desire to panic all of East Asia.
A
war over the Senkaku/Diaoyus would be like the 1998-2000 desert war
between Eritrea and Ethiopia, described as “two bald men fighting over a
comb.” No matter how much fish swim around the Senkakus, or how much
oil and gas may be found underwater, nothing justifies a war.
But,
then again, nothing justified World War I that began by a murder in
obscure Bosnia. Pray for cool heads in Beijing and Tokyo.
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