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Hello China! Japan's anti-aircraft-carrier missile XASM-3
14 May 2010 8ak: Exactly a year ago, speaking to a Japanese management consultant about potential Indo-Japan defence relations, he said that the defence cooperation potential was zero since its constitution prevented Japan from having an offensive capability.
Much has changed since - North Korea's missile tests over Japan, their recent sinking of a South Korean ship on routine patrol, Chinese unannounced patrols off Okinawa and flyby of a Chinese naval helicopter within 90m of a Japanese Naval Ship. By blaming Japan for the incident, China has followed the same pattern that 8ak reported yesterday - China makes aggressive military move, then denies it or blames the other country.
Countries looking to make friends with China are coming away rejected. One of these was Australia whose mineral-exports driven economy was bending over backwards to seek better relations with its primary buyer, China. It took the Rio-Tinto arrests to expose that China had little respect for Australian overtures. In a rare public venting of frustration at the highest political level, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 March 2010 openly criticised China over the arrest of Australian company Rio-Tinto's employees in the middle of price negotiations and a subsequent trial mired in secrecy with little room for the defendants to defend themselves. The situation is repeated in Japan. After the fall of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009 elections, the new PM Yukio Hatoyama had promised to move away from America and closer to the Chinese. Reality has now struck them as they grow wary of China's naval aggression and aim to resolve their dispute with America over their controversial air-base in Okinawa.
Barred by their constitution from building up an offensive capability, Japan has chosen to take slow steps - build a helicopter carrier rather than an aircraft carrier. And now, as seen in the picture, a new radar-guided, anti-ship missile developed by Mitsubishi. The little information available on this is on Janes. Some websites have said that the solid-propellant/ramjet motor with a 200km radius could be an aircraft-carrier killer in response to China's carrier building efforts. While Japan would not openly say it is carrier or China specific, Japan has friendly relations with all other nations with aircraft carriers.
14 May 2010 8ak: Exactly a year ago, speaking to a Japanese management consultant about potential Indo-Japan defence relations, he said that the defence cooperation potential was zero since its constitution prevented Japan from having an offensive capability.
Much has changed since - North Korea's missile tests over Japan, their recent sinking of a South Korean ship on routine patrol, Chinese unannounced patrols off Okinawa and flyby of a Chinese naval helicopter within 90m of a Japanese Naval Ship. By blaming Japan for the incident, China has followed the same pattern that 8ak reported yesterday - China makes aggressive military move, then denies it or blames the other country.
Countries looking to make friends with China are coming away rejected. One of these was Australia whose mineral-exports driven economy was bending over backwards to seek better relations with its primary buyer, China. It took the Rio-Tinto arrests to expose that China had little respect for Australian overtures. In a rare public venting of frustration at the highest political level, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 30 March 2010 openly criticised China over the arrest of Australian company Rio-Tinto's employees in the middle of price negotiations and a subsequent trial mired in secrecy with little room for the defendants to defend themselves. The situation is repeated in Japan. After the fall of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009 elections, the new PM Yukio Hatoyama had promised to move away from America and closer to the Chinese. Reality has now struck them as they grow wary of China's naval aggression and aim to resolve their dispute with America over their controversial air-base in Okinawa.
Barred by their constitution from building up an offensive capability, Japan has chosen to take slow steps - build a helicopter carrier rather than an aircraft carrier. And now, as seen in the picture, a new radar-guided, anti-ship missile developed by Mitsubishi. The little information available on this is on Janes. Some websites have said that the solid-propellant/ramjet motor with a 200km radius could be an aircraft-carrier killer in response to China's carrier building efforts. While Japan would not openly say it is carrier or China specific, Japan has friendly relations with all other nations with aircraft carriers.