Zguy28 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 U.S. sends B-52 over China-claimed waters Kirk Spitzer, Special for USA TODAY 1:09 p.m. EST November 26, 2013 China has claimed a stretch of ocean and Japan and the USA will challenge that when a U.S. carrier battle group and Japanese warships arrive on Wednesday.http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/26/japan-china-senkaku-islands/3746771/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28USATODAY+-+News+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo NAHA, OKINAWA, Japan — An American carrier battle group and a flotilla of Japanese warships will arrive Wednesday near a vast stretch of ocean claimed by China in what is shaping up as a test of how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the USA will stand up to the challenge. The joint U.S.-Japan exercises in the sea are a direct challenge to China's claim. On Tuesday, the U.S. military said two Air Force B-52 bombers flew over the sea without notifying Beijing despite China's demand that it be told if anyone plans to fly military aircraft over its self-claimed "air defense zone. The aircraft took off from Guam on Monday, part of a regular exercise, said a U.S. defense official who spoke to AFP news service on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge the information. China has been laying claim to nearly 1 million square miles of ocean known as the East China Sea, insisting that the sea's energy resources and fisheries belong to China. Much of the ocean territory it claims is hundreds of miles from its shore, including waters off the coasts of Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. See the link for the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pointyfootball Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 We wanted to make sure they knew we were totally ignoring/laughing at them so we sent the biggest, most unstealthy bird we got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 We wanted to make sure they knew we were totally ignoring/laughing at them so we sent the biggest, most unstealthy bird we got. lol...and next is when their new aircraft carrier shows up there, we'll send our newest one there as well to say hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grego Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 I hope they did "rock lobster". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 lol...and next is when their new aircraft carrier shows up there, we'll send our newest one there as well to say hello Maybe Mavrick and Goose will get a nice Polaroid. (More seriously, hope that's all they get.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKINS@THEGOALLINE Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 (CNN) -- China scrambled fighter jets Friday morning after U.S. and Japanese military aircraft entered its newly declared air defense zone over the East China Sea, a Chinese military official said Friday. Col. Shen Jinke, a Chinese air force spokesman, said in Beijing that the two U.S. and 10 Japanese aircraft were monitoring targets in the zone. He said the Chinese air force and navy were identifying and monitoring all foreign warplanes in the zone. The incident marks a ratcheting up of tensions in the region that began last weekend, when Beijing declared the air defense identification zone over islands claimed by Japan and China. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/29/world/asia/china-japan-us-tensions/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan China has long trained for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan during military exercises but has expanded its training to include a similar attack on Japanese holdings in the East China Sea, according the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET). As part of China’s Mission Action 2013 exercise — a massive exercise between the all branches of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — the military trained for taking the Senkaku Islands, said Capt. James Fanell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for PACFLEET. “We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross military region enterprise — Mission Action 2013,” Fanell said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego, Calif. “[We] 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 a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.” In the last year, China has increased the military activity has additionally increased provocative military actions in the South China Sea around the so-called Nine Dash Line — China’s expansive claim into the region in conflict with several other international claims. “As a senior U.S. government official recently stated, there is growing concern that China’s pattern of behavior in the South China Sea reflects an incremental effort by China to assert control of the area contained in the so-called 9-dash line despite the objections of its neighbors, and despite the lack of any explanation or apparent basis under international law.” Fanell said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan China has long trained for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan during military exercises but has expanded its training to include a similar attack on Japanese holdings in the East China Sea, according the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET). Click on the link for the full article I was reading an article about his the other day. They were saying that China's strategy here is to push the US Navy away from it's coast. They are doing that by claiming all these islands hundreds of miles removed from their coast... The long term goal is to push us back and make there smaller Asian neighbors more dependent upon them... maximizes China's influence while minimizing our own. Least that's the plan... What they are saying is a shooting war could break out over this island or that ship encroachment, but it would be contained to just that incident Like the Chinese American war in Korea never broke out into a wider conflict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Reminds me of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/ Pretty sure it was posted here a couple of months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Reminds me of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/ Pretty sure it was posted here a couple of months ago. yeah I think I posted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0crates Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Urinating contest or serious concern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGoonie55 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Neither the US nor China can afford a conflict. I think it's all posturing, and in the end I'm sure the US will bend to their will. We've lost our spine recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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