Putin's Pacific ambitions face challenge

Question: Why isn't China making a big fuss over Valdivostok (which it wqas forced to cede in only 1860) like it did over Hong Kong and is now over the Senkakus and other islands?

This article is a meaningless number of words taken together - Russo-Japanese War, APEC, Kuril islands, China, raising concerns in Washington, derelict submarines and so on. What did the author try to say? What was the point of this text? Beginning of the article doesn't make any sense, followed by "But such ambitions, blah, blah, blah..." Which ambitions??? What challenges do they face, these ambitions? Why rising China is a challenge and already risen Japan or US are not? I do not think AFP is any good at making interesting political analysis.

Another clever move by Putin! Way to go!

WakarimasenSep. 11, 2012 - 10:07AM JST Question: Why isn't China making a big fuss over Valdivostok (which it wqas forced to cede in only 1860) like it did over Hong Kong and is now over the Senkakus and other islands?

Answer: Because the time has not come yet. China just starting to pedal territorial issues and is looking now how far one can go. Taiwan is much more important to China than anything else, so it moves in that direction. Russia is too heavy weight, but if China will be powerful enough (+ the others will be weak enough) to get the islands and Taiwan, it will go after Russia too. I think.

hm ... Vladimir Putin, so 'vlad' means lord then in -of ostok? Bent on putting mother Russia back on the map. A truly dangerous man if you ask me. I don't know if he intends to try and meddle in foreign affairs but it's clear he wants a bit of honour back for his own place. And power. The guy is unreadable, probably his kgb background helping with that. No idea who is with or aound him. He has to have a personal circle of trained and skilled people, you never see or hear about them. He's a bit of a mystery to me. All this headbutting between the world's major powers leaves me in doubt wether some of the smaller ones wont be squeezed and crushed into some juice for breakfast for those guys. The mayans were right. this is really very possibly a turning point

Question: Why isn't China making a big fuss over Valdivostok (which it wqas forced to cede in only 1860) like it did over Hong Kong and is now over the Senkakus and other islands?

Because Vladivostok doesn't yet have anything that China wants. Wait till they discover oil there.

Russia is like Japan. Their time in the limelight is long passed. Both countries doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the Pacific region. The US should realign with China; Japan doesn't have the natural resources the world needs nor is Japan an exporting country in the strictest sense. So what can Russia and Japan offer the world, not much.

Welcome back, Bear. We missed you

Putin, Russia is not the whole ... http://apec2012.blogspot.com/2012/09/for-putin-flight-of-fancy-at-summit.html