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Sh1mon M4sada
This ^^ being the case, we know the new strategy will be effective against at least one adversary, China.
REDWhiteBlue
Time to send Japanese Ships to Taiwan.
AustPaul
A ‘squadron’? Does that not refer to aircraft? Do three ships make up a squadron??
AustPaul
Interesting that China sails through these areas. which are international waters but doesn’t like it when others sail through the Taiwan Strait, also international waters
Mark
Soon and when Japan starts showing force and displays it's capabilities, these actions of Harassment Will End.
kurisupisu
The Chinese harbor (to this day) grudges against Japan for injustices and there is a desire for revenge which is very apparent.
Coulda been
@ Awa no Gaijin 9.04am
What is the source of your information?
Andy
So China is sailing through international waters, where's the news here, simply the media spreading fear.
Mr Kipling
WOW! Big news.... China sails ships in international waters... Just like every other navy in the world.
I wonder if this story is anyway connected to the another story on JT about increased spending on arms and a "threat" from China.
Rodney
this is clear harassment and against the “freedom of navigation” in international waters. We should officially apologize.
theFu
Following warships near your interests is common practice for all Navies and Coast Guards.
Sailing in International Waters doesn't mean you aren't watched, just that nobody will get in your way.
It isn't like China had warships on the eastern side of Taiwan for a few weeks and fired live rounds recently. Oh, sorry, it is EXACTLY like that.
Desert Tortoise
Yes, naval vessels have squadrons. The US Navy has Destroyer Squadrons abbreviated DESRONs on both coasts. Squadrons are typically three to ten ships. The US Navy had an Asiatic Squadron from 1868 (formed out of the disbanded East India Squadron) and was upgraded to fleet status in 1902. In 1907 it was again downgraded to become the 1st Squadron of the US Pacific Fleet, but in 1910 it was reorganized as the Asiatic Fleet.
Desert Tortoise
The Marine Corps new Littoral Regiments and their mobile ground launched anti-ship missiles NSM and Tomahawk will ensure the PLAN cannot easily make such passages in the event of a war without suffering severe losses. Ground based Tomahawks in the JGSDF will likewise make it dangerous for the Chinese to sail between Japanese controlled islands. They can sail there to their hearts content in peacetime but if they start something up with Japan and the US they will find the straits between those islands will become very dangerous to them.
OssanAmerica
The "China" that was a US ally is now Taiwan. Which not only harbors no hatred for WWII but actually is allied with Japan.
The "China" that perpetuates anti-Japan WWII hatred is the PRC, which did not even exist until 4 years after WWII ended.
It was very clever of the Peopes Republic of China (PRC/PROC/Communist China/Red China) to market themselves as "China" to confuse the uneducated.
elephant200
Those ships were practicing freedom of navigation in the West Pacific!
Numan
@Awa no Gaijin
May be the democratic Taiwanese believe the modern Japanese government is better than Communist China!
HooKnows
You clearly have no idea how anything works, and even less of an idea of what you’re talking about.
Anonymous
Experiencing events firsthand and retaining a memory is different from reading or hearing accounts of those events years later. Even in the former case memories can change. The experience of recalling events may intensify or soften them. This is a fact and it is normal. In the later case a new generation without firsthand experience reads about them and, in effect, creates their own memories also subject to change. Again, to be intensified or softened.
Parties, whether governmental or other, know this very well and exploit it for various purposes. Putin manipulates Russians with references to the “Great Patriotic War” and Xi’s regime and trolls manipulate young Chinese with references to the IJA’s atrocities in China.
Again, there are facts on which honest researchers can agree but there are also those who would try to reshape memory for their own uses.
Beware narratives based on “outrages” of the past.
Tom San
China will send many more ships in the coming months.
Be prepared.
It might be too late.