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Japan, U.S. vow to boost capabilities to counter China

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China and Russia are competing for the world's mosted disliked country award.

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China and Russia are competing for the world's mosted disliked country award.

There is a country that has already won that award since 1776..

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Japan and the US will need thousands of keyboard warriors to counter the army of people China uses to flood the internet with misinformation like the post above mine.

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I understand why Japan needs the US at its back, with China next door. But the US is becoming increasingly unhinged and unpredictable. If/when the US decides to have a go at China, having the US at your back means that China has to shoot through you to get them.

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commanteerToday  11:29 am JST

I understand why Japan needs the US at its back, with China next door. But the US is becoming increasingly unhinged and unpredictable.

No, that ended in Jan 2021.

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No, that ended in Jan 2021.

Good lad.

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British arms for Japan?

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The United States and China, the world’s mightiest military and economic powers, are currently heading toward a Cold War or even a hot one, with disastrous consequences. Japan, apparently is to play the role of obedient lapdog and will suffer the consequences.

There are serious anti-Chinese players in the Biden administration, particularly Kurt Campbell, the so-called China tsar on the National Security Council. It was during the Obama administration that Campbell—then assistant secretary of state for Asia—came up with the “pivot” toward Asia, in part a cover for our humiliating defeat and withdrawal of forces from Iraq. Supporters of the “pivot” include National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and the “Asian tsar” at the Pentagon, Eli Ratner.

The dangers of this growing confrontation are enormous. The United States and China have developed unprecedented military might, and a conventional war could easily spiral into a catastrophic military conflict. Even if war were averted, their escalating arms race, which already accounts for more than half the world’s military expenditures, would be a colossal waste of resources. Furthermore, a major conflict between these two nations with the world’s largest economies, interlocked through investment and trade, could trigger a global economic collapse.

Secretary of State Blinken, Biden's longtime top foreign-policy adviser, supports U.S. warfare across the globe: Blinken pushed for the disastrous 2011 military intervention in Libya. Antony Blinken is a revolving-door pro who has combined his record of war boosterism with entrepreneurial zeal to personally profit from influence-peddling for weapons sales to the Pentagon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken used his first meeting with Chinese officials to publicly berate China.  Who better to oversee diplomacy for the U.S. government with China.  

Blinken was staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Biden chaired the panel’s mid-2002 crucial sham hearings on scenarios for invading Iraq, Blinken helped grease the skids for the catastrophic invasion.

Blinken’s eagerness to cash in on the warfare state — when not a formal part of the government’s war-making apparatus — is well-documented and chilling. Blinken’s shameless insistence on profiteering from military weapons sales, is spelled out in a Nov. 28 New York Times news story.

For Secretary Blinken, the concept of a “rules-based order” seems to serve mainly as a cudgel with which to attack China and Russia. At a May 7th UN Security Council meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that instead of accepting the already existing rules of international law, the United States and its allies are trying to come up with “other rules developed in closed, non-inclusive formats, and then imposed on everyone else.”

The  Pentagon budget identified China as “the greatest long-term challenge to the United States.” Promising to “prioritize China” as the primary U.S. adversary, the Defense Department called for heightened funding to upgrade U.S. “forces, global posture, and operational concepts” by “investing in cutting edge technologies that will deliver new warfighting advantages to our forces.” Essentially, preparation for war.

The United States could easily tone down its propaganda. The U.S. strategic position is still unassailable, even in East Asia, with military superiority in various domains. China lacks strategic allies. The United States has important relations with Australia, Japan, India, South Korea, and various Southeast Asian states, a grouping which is beginning to resemble an anti-China partnership. China is making no effort to project power into regions outside of its neighborhood; the United States has hundreds of facilities and bases the world over.

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They also discussed North Korea's nuclear and missile threats, saying trilateral cooperation between Japan, the United States and South Korea is vital, the ministry said.

The Japanese foreign ministry admits Japan depends on Korean radar feed for missile defense, which will be cut off once GSOMIA is terminated.

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The Japanese foreign ministry admits Japan depends on Korean radar feed for missile defense, which will be cut off once GSOMIA is terminated.

China has one dependable lapdog I then.

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@commanteer

Lapdog? Why is this myth about South Korea being beholden to the CCP so prevalent?

Koreans are now becoming increasingly more anti-China, just as much as they are anti-Japan. It started with the economic blockade in response to THAAD and now there is widespread anger given how China is approriating Korean culture as their own (see Hanbok controversy).

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The Japanese foreign ministry admits Japan depends on Korean radar feed for missile defense, which will be cut off once GSOMIA is terminated.

No, not true. The best radar in South Korea, AN/TPY-2 is owned and operated by the US Army as part of the THAAD system deployed there, not the Koreans. The US has the same radars and THAAD in Japan. Remember the Chinese got all excited when the US deployed THAAD there because it can see so far into China where legacy radars in place there cannot.

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British arms for Japan?

The way things are going in post-Brexit UK it wouldn't surprise me if whatever government of whatever is left of the UK replaces Bojo ends up having to sell the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales to the JMSDF in order to "rationalize" their defense. spending. UK governments have been rationalizing themselves into unimportance for decades so maybe Japan can get a bargain on some low kilometer aircraft carriers.

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Koreans are now becoming increasingly more anti-China, just as much as they are anti-Japan. 

They straddle the fence rather than clearly siding with those who would be their natural allies. Withholding advance notice of incoming missiles is essentially allying with China and standing by while Japanese are bombed. It is effectively serving Chinese interests. It's a lose/lose scenario for Korea as they cannot survive by standing alone. That nation's political class need to grow up. And fast. Nobody cares that you are anti-this country or anti-that country.

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