Diaoyu Islands News and Updates

[mastaan]

Irrespective of the outcome of these "small" things.. it's yet another step towards annihilation of PRC.

The only interesting question is that whether it will be a military annhiliation (like Nazi Germany) or a peaceful demise (like USSR).

Don't think China is Germany or that it is piece of cake to attack and hurt China for Japan without almost insuring its own destruction.

Annihilation is a big word. And, you also have to account for the collateral damage that such a flare up into a full scale war can cause on Japan. US nuked them, China might just sink them in the pacific.

 

[IamINDIA]

China should tread carefully... almost every country around it wants it gone and America is looking for an excuse to attack it. China will be the one to suffer if it declares hostilities.

 

[ahfatzia]

Clinton assures Tokyo support in islands spat

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speak to the press following talks at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18. (AP)



WASHINGTON -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Japan on Friday of U.S. support in Tokyo's dispute with Beijing over a string of islands and invited new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Washington in late February for a meeting with President Barack Obama.

Clinton held a working lunch with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and both emerged pledging that U.S.-Japan security and economic ties would remain strong following Abe's landslide election victory last month.

“Our alliance with Japan remains the cornerstone of American engagement with the region,” Clinton told reporters, noting a wide range of cooperation on everything from disaster relief to the standoff over nuclear North Korea.

Clinton, due to step down in coming weeks, again affirmed that the United States would stand by its longtime ally in its territorial dispute with China over islets in the East China Sea claimed by both countries.

Tensions over the tiny islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, have flared in recent months, one of several maritime territorial disputes involving China that have worsened as Washington seeks to shift its security focus to Asia.

“Although the United States does not take a position on the ultimate sovereignty of the islands, we acknowledge they are under the administration of Japan,” Clinton said, repeating the long-standing U.S. position on the dispute.

“We oppose any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration, and we urge all parties to take steps to prevent incidents and manage disagreements through peaceful means.”

Kishida signaled that Abe, who had taken a tough stance on the dispute during his election campaign, was not eager to escalate the conflict.

“While Japan will not concede and will uphold our fundamental position that the Senkaku islands are an inherent territory of Japan, we intend to respond calmly so as not to provoke China,” he said through an interpreter.

Clinton announced that Abe had been invited to Washington in the third week of February to hold his first meeting with Obama.

Facing China

Abe had hoped to make the United States his first overseas visit following his election last month on a platform that called for both reviving Japan's struggling economy and coping with China's rising power in the region.

But the visit was postponed due to Obama's tight schedule, and Abe traveled instead to Southeast Asia before cutting the trip short this week to return home after Japanese workers were caught up in the hostage crisis in Algeria.

Abe came to power partly on a nationalist platform and wants to revise Japan's U.S.-drafted constitution adopted after World War II. U.S. officials have indicated they would like to see Japan loosen constitutional restraints on its military to enable a bigger global security role.

The United States and Japan have also sought to cooperate on plans to streamline the U.S. military presence in the southern Japanese island of Okinawa including proposals to move the Futenma air base to a new site.

Clinton said she was confident that the two sides could make further progress on the issue, while Kishida said the Abe administration was committed to working through a framework deal the two sides announced last year.

Clinton assures Tokyo support in islands spat - The China Post


Is she bluffing or shooting from the hip? She means the US would go to war over one of her ally's spats on some distance rocks? No wonder the US is the most warmongering nation on Earth!

 

[Gyp 111]

Financial Express :: Financial Newspaper of Bangladesh

TOKYO, Jan 19 (AFP): Three Chinese government ships Saturday entered Japanese territorial waters around disputed islands, Japan's coastguard said, hours after a veiled US warning to Beijing not to challenge Tokyo's control.

The surveillance vessels sailed in waters around the islands known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyus in China for nearly five hours, the coastguard said.

The vessels had all left Japanese waters by 1:52 pm (0452 GMT) and were travelling away from the East China Sea islands, which are controlled by Tokyo but claimed by Beijing, a coastguard official said.

China has repeatedly sailed into the waters since Japan nationalised the chain in September, a move that triggered anger and demonstrations in China.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking at a joint news conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington Friday, said the disputed area was under Japan's administration and hence protected under a US security treaty with Tokyo.

"We oppose any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration," Clinton said.

Clinton did not mention Beijing directly but said: "We want to see China and Japan resolve this matter peacefully through dialogue."

"We do not want to see any action taken by anyone that could raise tensions or result in miscalculation that would undermine the peace, security and economic growth in this region," she added.

The United States insists it is neutral on the ultimate sovereignty of the islands.

China has repeatedly criticised the US position and the sending of maritime surveillance ships to the potentially gas- rich area is seen by experts as a way to contest the notion that Japan holds effective control.

Kishida took a measured tone on China, describing the relationship with Beijing as "one of the most important" for Japan.

"While Japan will not concede and will uphold our fundamental positions that the Senkaku islands are an inherent territory of Japan, we intend to respond calmly so as not to provoke China," Kishida said.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a veiled warning Friday to China not to challenge Japan's control of disputed islands as Tokyo's new government vowed not to aggravate tensions.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida met with Clinton on the first trip by a top Japanese official since Japan's conservatives returned to power last month. Clinton announced that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would visit in February.

Amid signs that China is testing control over virtually uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, Clinton said the area was under Japan's control and hence protected under a US security treaty with Tokyo.

"We oppose any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration," Clinton told a joint news conference with Kishida.

Clinton did not mention Beijing directly in the warning, but said: "We want to see China and Japan resolve this matter peacefully through dialogue."

"We do not want to see any action taken by anyone that could raise tensions or result in miscalculation that would undermine the peace, security and economic growth in this region," she said.

 

[Soryu]

No need for create new theard for this. Old trick from China ships will not work...

Diaoyu Islands 钓鱼岛 News and Updates

 

[Wright]

Don't think China is Germany or that it is piece of cake to attack and hurt China for Japan without almost insuring its own destruction.

Annihilation is a big word. And, you also have to account for the collateral damage that such a flare up into a full scale war can cause on Japan. US nuked them, China might just sink them in the pacific.

No china is no Germany. US wont be trying to steal Chinese tech like they did with the Germans.

 

[mastaan]

No china is no Germany. US wont be trying to steal Chinese tech like they did with the Germans.

You may try all smart one liners you want... You know exactly what I mean... China ain't no Germany... And, there ain't no allied forces nomore... lol

 

[mirage2K]

BEIJING: Amid rising tensions with Japan over disputed islands, Chinese army in a bid to scale up battle readiness has ordered its armed helicopters to shift focus from logistic missions and gear up for combat operations.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) planned to change the training strategy of its army aviation unit as more and more armed helicopters joined the service, PLA Daily which is the official newspaper of the military quoted an army aviation unit as saying.

The focus of army aviation unit will be shifted from logistics missions to combat ones, from building the capacity for non-war military actions to core military actions, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the daily as saying.

The unit will work on major missions such as long-distance tasks, large scale offshore operations, attack coordination with other units and large scale airborne operations, it said, adding that the unit will also aim to improve its operation capability based on IT technologies.

Both China and Japan have scaled up military operations after the escalation of the dispute over the islands called Diaoyu by China and Senkakus by Japan.

The PLA move comes in the backdrop of recent military drills conducted by the Japanese army helicopters to defend the islands from enemy raids.

Chinese military exercises in recent months involving ships and aircraft focused on taking the islands and retaining them.

While naval ships of both the countries patrolled the waters of the islands, the two also scrambled aircraft last week to intercept surveillance planes.

Conflict over the islands escalated after Japan, which retained the administrative control over the islands bought them from a private party.

Objecting the move, China sent its ships into the island waters.

On January 15, General Staff Headquarters of the PLA had asked commanders and soldiers to strengthen their readiness for possible war with a directive to stage more exercises.

"The General Staff Headquarters of PLA has pledged to stage more military drills that simulate real combat, urging commanders and soldiers to strengthen their readiness for possible war", the PLA daily reported.

In a directive on military training in 2013, the headquarters said the PLA is determined to improve its combat capability by holding more military exercises to mock real situations on the battlefield, according to the report.

All servicemen and servicewomen should always bear in mind the awareness of war and the sense of crisis, the directive said.

China-Japan island dispute: Beijing orders helicopter units to be combat ready - The Times of India

 

[faithfulguy]

TOKYO (AP) — Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between Tokyo and Beijing that raises concerns that a dispute over hotly contested islands could spin out of control.

Japanese officials made the comments after Chinese fighters tailed its warplanes near the islands recently. The incident is believed to be the first scrambling of Chinese fighters since the tensions began to rise last spring.

According to Chinese media, a pair of J-10 fighters was scrambled after Japanese F-15s began tailing a Chinese surveillance plane near the disputed islands in the East China Sea. China has complained the surveillance flight did not violate Japanese airspace and the F-15s were harassing it.

It was the first time the Chinese media has reported fighters being mobilized to respond to Japanese air force activity in the area and comes amid what Japan says is a rapid intensification of Chinese air force activity around the islands, where Japanese and Chinese coast guard ships have squared off for months.

Though there have been no outright clashes, the increased sea and air operations have fueled worries that the situation could spin out of control.

Such concerns have grown over official comments suggesting new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet are considering the use of "tracer" fire as a means of responding to airspace incursions. Tracer rounds are designed to burn brightly to get the attention of a pilot who may have missed other warnings due to a radio malfunction, while also indicating that the aircraft firing them is prepared to take further action.

"Every country has procedures for how to deal with a violation of its territory that continues after multiple cautionary measures," Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday when asked if tracer shots would be fired against intruding aircraft that refuse to change course. "We have response measures ready that are consistent with global standards."

Onodera said the use of warning shots has long been provided for under Japan's defense policies and is widely accepted under international rules of engagement. Japan's air force has not actually resorted to them since 1987 — against a Soviet aircraft — and none were fired last week.

But Chinese and Japanese media have suggested Tokyo is publicly floating the possibility to test China's reaction.

The escalation of tensions has worried the United States, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton saying Friday that while the U.S. doesn't take a position on who has sovereignty over the islands, it opposes "any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration."

That brought a sharp retort from the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday. The comments "ignore the facts" that the islands are China's inherent territory, spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that urged the U.S. to adopt "a responsible attitude."

In Beijing last week, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said China is on "high alert" and suggested Japan is escalating the tensions over the islands, called the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku in Japan. Taiwan also claims the small isles, which are uninhabited but may be surrounded by valuable underwater natural resources.

"Chinese planes and ships are exercising normal jurisdiction in the waters and airspace surrounding the Diaoyu Islands," spokesman Hong Lei said. "We are opposed to the operations of Japan's planes and ships, which violate our rights around Diaoyu. We are on high alert against this escalation."

As is often the case, Chinese media quoted military academics with a much more fiery response.

"Japan's desire to fire tracer warning shots as a way of frightening the Chinese is nothing but a joke that shows the stupidity, cruelty and failure to understand their own limitations," Maj. Gen. Peng Guangqian of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences was quoted as saying by the China News Service and other state media.

"Firing tracer bullets is a type of provocation; it's firing the first shot," he said. "Were Japan to dare to fire tracers, which is to say fire the first shot, then China wouldn't stint on responding and not allow them to fire the second shot."

Peng said Japan may have put out the report to generate discussion and gauge China's response


Japan talk of warning shots heats up China dispute - Yahoo! News

 

[Type 052D]

If CPC and ROC put their differences aside then Japan can never shatter Chinese unity (Han/Hui/Turk/Machu)

 

[Vitchilo]

If CPC and ROC put their differences aside then Japan can never shatter Chinese unity (Han/Hui/Turk/Machu)

You know why it won't happen? Because ROC people don't want to be ruled by a bunch of corrupt dictators.

Unless the mainland does big big big reforms, it just won't happen. Well not peacefully anyways.

There's a big difference in philosophy... just like NKorea/SKorea.

 

[northeast]

If CPC and ROC put their differences aside then Japan can never shatter Chinese unity (Han/Hui/Turk/Machu)

ROC is just a pathetic and weak loser dog.

 

[shuttler]

You know why it won't happen? Because ROC people don't want to be ruled by a bunch of corrupt dictators.

Unless the mainland does big big big reforms, it just won't happen. Well not peacefully anyways.

There's a big difference in philosophy... just like NKorea/SKorea.

There is a lot of differences between DPRK/ROK and China/Taiwan.

The traitor:

The corrupt:

The corrupt and gay:

 

[Vitchilo]

The traitors are the ones calling themselves leaders while not having the backing of the people... aka Chinese leaders... Unelected corrupt bureaucrats.

How can anyone who values freedom back such a regime?? They cannot.

 

[DV RULES]

BEIJING - China said it was “strongly dissatisfied” Sunday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a veiled warning to Beijing not to challenge Tokyo’s control of disputed islands at the centre of a bitter territorial row. China is “strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposes” the remarks, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement on the ministry’s website.The maritime dispute, which has simmered off and on for years, intensified last year when the Japanese government nationalised islands in the small chain it did not already own, triggering angry responses in China.China has since increased maritime and air patrols near the East China Sea territory, and in further escalations in recent weeks both Beijing and Tokyo have scrambled fighter jets, though there have been no clashes.“We urge the US side to treat the issue of the Diaoyu islands with a responsible attitude,” Qin said, referring to the territory by its Chinese name. Japan calls the islands the Senkakus.He also called for Washington to be “careful in words, cautious in actions” and to take “realistic actions to protect the peace and stability of the region and Chinese-US relations”.Qin’s statement came after Clinton on Friday said the US opposed “any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration” of the islands.Clinton, speaking at a press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, did not mention Beijing directly but said she wanted China and Japan to settle the issue peacefully.“We do not want to see any action taken by anyone that could raise tensions or result in miscalculation that would undermine the peace, security and economic growth in this region,” she said.The US insists it is neutral on the ultimate sovereignty of the islands but also says they are under Japan’s de facto administration.China has persistently criticised the US position and Beijing’s sending of maritime surveillance ships to the potentially gas-rich area is seen by experts as a way to contest the notion of Japanese control.Complicating the issue is a security treaty that obliges the US - which keeps military bases in Japan - to aid the country in the event it is attacked.Another factor that has raised tensions is the coming to power last month of hawkish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose party won a landslide victory in elections.Last week, state media said China will carry out a geographical survey of the islands and also reported that China’s armed forces have been instructed to raise their fighting ability in 2013 with “the objective of being able to fight and win a battle”.China’s official reaction to Clinton’s comments came a day after state media harshly criticised them.The official Xinhua news agency called it “unwise” for Washington “to throw support behind Japan in Tokyo’s islands dispute with Beijing”, adding: “This unbalanced position has betrayed its declared intention to stay neutral on the issue.”

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