Posted on Nov 29, 2015
What do you make of 11 Chinese military aircraft flying near the Japanese islands?
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What do you make of 11 Chinese military aircraft flying near the Japanese islands?
Just another way for China to flex it's muscle and power?
TOKYO —
Japan scrambled jets after 11 Chinese military planes flew near southern Japanese islands during what Beijing said was a drill to improve its long-range combat abilities, reports said Saturday.
The planes—eight bombers, two intelligence gathering planes and one early-warning aircraft—flew near Miyako and Okinawa on Friday without violating Japan’s airspace, the Japanese defense ministry said in a statement released on Friday.
Some of them flew between the two islands while others made flights close to neighboring islands, the ministry said.
A Chinese air force spokesman said several types of planes, including H-6K bombers, were involved in Friday’s drill over the western Pacific, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
Shen Jinke said such open sea exercises had improved the force’s long-distance combat abilities, according to Xinhua.
While there were no further comments from the Japanese ministry, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that it was “unusual” for China to dispatch such a large fleet close to Japan’s airspace and the ministry was analysing the purpose of the mission.
Japan scrambles jets hundreds of times a year to defend its airspace, both against Russia and these days also against Chinese aircraft.
Beijing has warned this is heightening tensions between the two Asian powerhouses, which are already at loggerheads over a longstanding territorial row in the East China Sea and Japanese military aggression in the first half of the 20th century.
The move comes with tensions running high in the South China Sea after a US warship sailed close to at least one land formation claimed by China, which has rattled its neighbors with its increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes.
China transformed reefs in the region into small islands capable of supporting military facilities, a move the US says threatens freedom of navigation in a region through which one-third of the world’s oil passes.
China insists on sovereignty over virtually all the resource-endowed South China Sea, which is also claimed in part by a handful of other countries.
Washington has repeatedly said it does not recognise the Chinese claims.
Just another way for China to flex it's muscle and power?
TOKYO —
Japan scrambled jets after 11 Chinese military planes flew near southern Japanese islands during what Beijing said was a drill to improve its long-range combat abilities, reports said Saturday.
The planes—eight bombers, two intelligence gathering planes and one early-warning aircraft—flew near Miyako and Okinawa on Friday without violating Japan’s airspace, the Japanese defense ministry said in a statement released on Friday.
Some of them flew between the two islands while others made flights close to neighboring islands, the ministry said.
A Chinese air force spokesman said several types of planes, including H-6K bombers, were involved in Friday’s drill over the western Pacific, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
Shen Jinke said such open sea exercises had improved the force’s long-distance combat abilities, according to Xinhua.
While there were no further comments from the Japanese ministry, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that it was “unusual” for China to dispatch such a large fleet close to Japan’s airspace and the ministry was analysing the purpose of the mission.
Japan scrambles jets hundreds of times a year to defend its airspace, both against Russia and these days also against Chinese aircraft.
Beijing has warned this is heightening tensions between the two Asian powerhouses, which are already at loggerheads over a longstanding territorial row in the East China Sea and Japanese military aggression in the first half of the 20th century.
The move comes with tensions running high in the South China Sea after a US warship sailed close to at least one land formation claimed by China, which has rattled its neighbors with its increasingly assertive stance in territorial disputes.
China transformed reefs in the region into small islands capable of supporting military facilities, a move the US says threatens freedom of navigation in a region through which one-third of the world’s oil passes.
China insists on sovereignty over virtually all the resource-endowed South China Sea, which is also claimed in part by a handful of other countries.
Washington has repeatedly said it does not recognise the Chinese claims.
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China has no right to claim that territory and it is flexing its military muscles and making moves to control the supply of oil going through that region. The UN (if it had any sense) should have imposed an embargo on ALL Chinese goods when the Chinese began building the islands citing legal and environmental concerns. The rest of the world could have done without Chinese imports longer than the Chinese could have done without the exports to fuel their selfish ambitions. The UN should also be brokering negotiations between those countries laying claim to that part of the South China Sea to settle their disputes.
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COL Ted Mc
Capt Jeff S. - Captain; The UN funding formula is the one that the US government insisted upon when the UN was founded.
The actual UN "power structure" is also the one that the US government insisted upon when the UN was founded (and which the Founding Fathers would have greatly appreciated because it gave the appearance of inclusiveness while actually keeping the power in the hands of "the right people").
The actual UN "power structure" is also the one that the US government insisted upon when the UN was founded (and which the Founding Fathers would have greatly appreciated because it gave the appearance of inclusiveness while actually keeping the power in the hands of "the right people").
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COL Ted Mc
Capt Jeff S. - Captain; And that is exactly what the Founding Fathers believed when they tried to ensure that the control of the Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch, and the Senate remained firmly in the hands of the "white males of the moneyed class".
Mind you, I am well aware that the general definition of "wrong people" in statements like " We don't need the wrong people telling the right people what to do." is "those people who don't agree with me" while the general definition of "right people" is "those people who do agree with me".
Mind you, I am well aware that the general definition of "wrong people" in statements like " We don't need the wrong people telling the right people what to do." is "those people who don't agree with me" while the general definition of "right people" is "those people who do agree with me".
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Sp4 Byron Skinner. The operative phrase here is "…without violating Japan's airspace." Freedom of international applies to Chinese military aircraft as it does to two US B-52's who over flew the South China Sea. I'm not trying to down grade the fragile relationship right now between China and Japan, but in the case the Chinese were well with in the provisions of international law.
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I think that everybody does stuff like this for practice.
The Japanese got some practice on defense out of the deal, too.
The Japanese got some practice on defense out of the deal, too.
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Didn't the Prime Minsiter of Japan get approval from his cabinet to change the Constitution to allow Japanese Military to no longer be just a defense force? Japan has been mad since N. Korea tested an ICBM prototype in 1999. Now Japan is upset at Russia for its subs snooping in its waters and now Japan is now building up its military slowly. Yama Sakura is alive, well and relevant legacy of the Cold War.
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