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White House criminals using Obama owned NPR to soften-up Americans for coming war with China
NPR
By Scot Neuman
02/21/2014
China
is stepping up war games in preparation for a possible conflict with
Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, a tiny island chain in the East
China Sea claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo, a senior U.S. Navy official
says.
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| If provoked China would turn Japan into a smoking rock |
Captain James Fanell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information
operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, made the remark in San Diego
last week.
Fanell said that after witnessing China's Mission
Action 2013, a "massive amphibious and cross military" exercise that
included ground and naval forces of the People's Liberation Army, U.S.
analysts had concluded that "the PLA has been given the new task to be
able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East
China Sea following with what can only be expected [as] a seizure of
the Senkakus or even southern Ryukyu [islands]."
Beginning in the second half of last year, China's military training shifted toward what appears to preparation for "realistic maritime combat," he said.
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| U.S. traitors Hagel and Obama play with fire |
Just a week after Mission Action 2013, "Japan said that a Chinese
warship locked its fire-controlled radar onto a Japanese warship. China
denied it for a month, but then admitted that it occurred, but said that
it was not in danger since the range between the two ships was too
close for a weapons system," Fanell said.
"Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up," he added.
Beijing, Fanell said, conducted nine operations in the western Pacific meant to "practice striking naval targets."
"Those were his views to express," Kirby told a Pentagon news conference on Thursday.
"What
I can tell you about what Secretary Hagel believes is that we all
continue to believe that the peaceful, prosperous rise of China is a
good thing for the region, for the world," he said, referring to Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel.]
Lunatic Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Fukushima fame mistakenly
believes Obama will come to his rescue after starting a war with China
The zone angered Japan but was in line with a tougher stance taken by
China's President Xi Jinping. Many analysts believe China aims to
establish itself as the undisputed power in Asia by enacting something
in Asia akin to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine issued by the U.S. warning
European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
The Financial Times reports:
"By the way, protection of maritime rights is a Chinese euphemism for coerce seizure of coastal rights of China's neighbors," he said.
The Financial Times reports:
"Although Capt. Fanell's remarks were unusually blunt in their assessment of China's intentions, they represent a growing tide of anxiety from senior US officials about Beijing's ambitions in both the East China Sea and South China Sea."In a separate article by the FT reports:
"Earlier in February, Danny Russel, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asia, warned 'there are growing concerns that this pattern of behaviour in the South China Sea reflects incremental effort by China to assert control over the area.' He said that China's recent actions had "created uncertainty, insecurity and instability in the region."
"For the past 20 years China has been undergoing a rapid military build-up, and the navy has been given pride of place. More important, China has been investing in its navy in a very specific way. American strategists sometimes talk about a Chinese 'anti-navy' – a series of warships, silent submarines and precision missiles, some based on land, some at sea, which are specifically designed to keep an opposing navy as far away as possible from the mainland. The implication of the investment plan is that China is trying to prevent the US Navy from operating in large areas of the western Pacific. According to Dennis Blair, the former Pacific commander who was head of the US intelligence services early in the Obama administration: 'Ninety per cent of their time is spent on thinking about new and interesting ways to sink our ships and shoot down our planes.'"As we reported in 2012, the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute is only of several such tense territorial claims in the region:
"It's China vs. the Philippines and Taiwan for control of Scarborough Shoal; Taiwan also claims the Pratas Islands and (along with Vietnam) the Paracel Islands and the Macclesfield Bank, which the Philippines also claims; the Spratly Islands are claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and even the tiny sultanate of Brunei. These disputes involve an area known as the 'cow's tongue,' which is roughly equivalent to the entire South China Sea."Fanell detailed a series of what he called aggressive actions taken by China against its neighbors over the past year. Some of those actions, including combat drills in the south Philippine Sea were described as China's "protection of maritime rights," USNI.org says.
"By the way, protection of maritime rights is a Chinese euphemism for coerce seizure of coastal rights of China's neighbors," he said.
