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Fox Sora Winters
@toshiko "friend" would be stretching it. Acquaintance maybe, or "country that shows up to help in a war when it's pretty much decided already, then takes the credit for victory". The recent NSA spying debacle has frosted ties as well.
Even so, Japan and China participating in a drill seems pretty rare at best, unless you count their cat & mouse shadowing games as drills as well, because that happens all the time.
toshiko
@Fandango: Can EU and UK believe USA is their friend ? China and Japan together hold huge US Bonds. Even they have joint miltiary drill.
nath
Why? Does not compute.
kaimycahl
Can WE ALL just get along?
jj1067
The drill is to find a Chinese spy ship coming around the drill? Navies enjoyed that game on RIMPAC 2014.
MikeAnderson
japan and china drill !!! that reminds me of the mistake done by lyndon B. Johnson in vietnam
japan can pair with china and Russia and N. korea, the problem that S.korea arrogance will make them without allies in the pacific
Asian2014
People here spew venom even when something positive is reported! How childish and lack of self confidence!
Crush Them
Unfortunately its not the politicians behind the mess taking part in the drills. Its just the grunts who follow their orders and I doubt any of them have the stones to refuse bad orders.
Fox Sora Winters
China and Japan taking part in a joint drill? China and Japan working together? This is either a sign of the apocalypse, or an espionage venture. Call me pessimistic if you want, but I don't trust anything China does any more.
ReformedBasher
On a practical level, not the government, but the crews. Going to assume they were professional about it.
toshiko
On the surface, they are not friendly. But they don't look like they will create WW III. EU and UK must be worrying what they really are.
MyJT2014
How is it works? Me no understand......
suhiro3333
****Don't trust the Russians or the Chinese, they'll smile in your face and kick you in the ballsp and stab you in the back.
oldman_13
Unbelievable, a day when China's government doesn't say one negative thing about Japan, keeps its mouth shut, and participates in drills with Japan.
Unreal.
OssanAmerica
What seems to have escaped everyone is that China's Coast Guard, a consolidation of the 5 Dragons, is unlike the other 5 Coast Guards participating in these drills. While every Coat Guard will protect it's national waters from unauthorized intrusion, how many will actively go and actively support a claim by physical presence? In other words, act not just in a law enforcement and S&R capacity but as a paramilitary service.
Horenzo
"Japan, China coast guards take part in joint drills"
"Japan warned Tuesday that China’s “dangerous acts” over territorial claims in the East China Sea could lead to “unintended consequences"
bipolar
ndwariga
China needs someone to kick their butt. They are too arrogant
SenseNotSoCommon
Acting their age, not their shoe size.
edwardw
This is always good news to hear. Let's hope some good networking took place between the coast guards in hopes of staving off potential conflicts in the future.