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Over the past 48 hours there has been a fervent nationalist surge and anti-Japanese sentiment that resulted in the death of the Japanese ambassador in China, just one week after he took his post.
Long-standing historical and geopolitical tensions between Japan and China are coming to a head over a group of islands in the East China Sea. Japan’s GDP is now declining in real terms, its economy crippled by years of deflation, whose infrastructure is impaired due to anti-nuclear power sentiment, and one which generally can NOT afford an all out diplomatic, political and economic conflict with China.
The popular mood in China is for war. While Japan faces crucial elections, massive protests against Japan erupted in dozens of Chinese cities. In some places, anger was vented against Japanese products and brands. Protesters overturned Japanese-brand cars, set fire to buildings, and smashed Japanese-made electronics.
China has sent six “ocean surveillance” ships to the disputed waters for the purpose of “law enforcement”. The struggle for sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands (called Senkaku Islands in Japan) is heating up at a dangerous time for both countries.
Yu Zhirong, a high-ranking official in the Chinese State Oceanic Administration, upped the ante in a recent interview, saying: “We will have to chase off Japan Coast Guard vessels from Chinese territorial waters. We are not fearful of risking a minor conflict.” While the leadership in both nations might not fear a small symbolic confrontation, the repercussions of such a move would be felt around the world. No one can guarantee that any conflict in the East China Sea would remain “minor”. Japan’s close security ties with the United States would likely drag America into any clash.
Who is prompting the escalating, and why now?
Who and why is a good question? Something like this could touch it all off. Our military I believe would be up to it, but I believe they would ultimately fail because of Obama’s direction and the voice of the liberals in America. ~Alan
On September 11th, 2012, Japanese PM Yoshihiko Noda declared nationalisation of the Diaoyu Islands, a traditional Chinese territory under Japanese control. This move caused great fury in China. In protest of Japan’s illegal occupation of Chinese territory, hundreds of thousands of outraged demonstrators took to the streets in more than 50 cities across China, burning Japanese flags and attacking the Japanese embassy and consulates.
Let’s visit history.
It has been a well established and publicly recognized historical fact that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China, as has been recognized by almost every country in the world. Detailed historical records exist that show the islands became part of China in as early as 1562 during the Ming Dynasty (ca. 14-16th century). Before Japan seized the islands, even Japanese maps showed the islands as part of China. However, when WWII was over, despite the Chinese request to reclaim all the lost territories seized by Japan according to the Potsdam Proclamation, the US as the de facto controller of Diaoyu Islands after the War did not comply; instead, it chose to hand the administrative rights over the islands to Japan in 1972, thus sowing the seeds of today’s territorial conflicts between China and Japan.
The islets, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are uninhabited but situated in rich fishing waters and are said to sit atop valuable natural resources.
They are controlled by Japan but claimed by China and Taiwan, and the current row has roiled the political relationship between Beijing and Tokyo, which is coloured by Chinese resentment over past conflicts and atrocities.
Countering the LIES of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during a hearing last week that China’s behavior toward regional states was tantamount to bullying.
Ros-Lehtinen said the United States, through the Navy, will stand by friends and allies in the region.
http://freebeacon.com/chinese-general-prepare-for-combat/
That’s rich. Coming from a country that THREW its allies under the bus, way back in January 2009, and allowed its appointed dictators in the ME to be deposed in lieu of the Muslim Brotherhood; and where, today, Israel is told to back off from taking any action against Iran while her Nigger boss snubbed the visiting Israeli PM.
The US once again shows itself to be the Most Treacherous and Evil Nation that God PUNISHED, immediately after Netanyahu was deliberately disgraced by the US MUSLIM Obama.
He allowed darling satan’s America’s debt rating cut by Moody. Within a few hours, the ME (Arab Spring) erupted into flames with everyone linked to Satan America under attack; its ambassador in Libya got Obama’s Muslim Anal Rape with three others gunned down by the US terrorist lovers; and the American flag and embassy attacked in Egypt, and right across the ME US embassies and Americans were under attack, including the US embassy in London.
September 18. Marks the September 18, 1931 “Mukden Incident” , the bomb plot contrived by the Imperial Japanese Army to justify the invasion of Manchuria. This explains why the Japanese School in Beijing has been closed on this day.
Chinese state television showed sirens being sounded at 9:18 am — symbolising the date — as a reminder to “remember the history and not forget national disgrace”, it said.
After the war, theoretically and at least judging from the appearance, a demilitarized Japan with a peace constitution and under US control should have converted itself into a country of peace, just like Germany has. However, in reality, this is not what happened. One need only count the number of Japanese politicians’ visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, a notorious Japanese memorial site enshrining Japanese war criminals, to see the truth. What kind of fury would this fan into the hearts of ordinary Chinese?
How would Jewish people feel if Germans, after WWII , were to line up to pay homage to Hitler openly in a state-funded memorial hall in Berlin?
In other words, the historical debt owed by Japan to the Chinese people has never been repaid and the karma exists. In this respect, Japan is very much unlike Germany. German Chancellor Brandt’s act of kneeling before the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw symbolized Germany’s courage to admit their war crimes and express the country’s remorse over its past. For this, Germany has won the respect of the world. In comparison, Japan has not only denied its wartime atrocities such as the Nanking Massacre but also has shamelessly depicted itself as the Liberator of Asia, asserting that the purpose of its wartime aggression was to liberate Asia from the yoke of barbaric Anglo-Saxon forces.(emphasis)
Before going further, let’s do a discussion of the geopolitics in East Asia today (which would inevitably involve the United States, the largest proxy of modern-day Anglo-Saxon forces), let’s first do a historical review on the traditional role played by the Anglo-Saxon forces in shaping Imperialist Japan.
Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, two US presidents who played a remarkable role in shaping the Asian geopolitics in the early 20th century.
The most memorable legacy of Teddy Roosevelt, if viewed from today’s perspective, is perhaps his “carrot and stick” strategy as an extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Disputed as it may be, this trick of Roosevelt did play its role in shaping the Far East geopolitics and keeping the delicate balance of power there in the early 20th century. For his contribution to meddling between Russia and Japan, Roosevelt was even awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906. Viewed from this perspective, it is no exaggeration to say that it was Roosevelt’s dedication to peace, his balance of power strategy, his despise of weak nations and his pragmatic respect of power and spheres of influence that eventually lent prowess to the little Japanese wolf who later grew into a big wolf to snarl, some day in the future, at its one-time benefactor.
Taft inherited Roosevelt’s pragmatic foreign policy to a great extent. This can be easily evidenced by the secret Taft-Tatsura Agreement signed between the US and Japan in 1905. On July 29th, 1905, Japan’s Count Katsura met Secretary of War Taft (later president) to negotiate a resolution of the grievances between the two countries. Japan agreed to accept the US presence in Hawaii and the Philippines. In exchange, America agreed to give Japan a free hand in Korea. According to some Korean scholars, it was this treaty that later caused the Dokdo dispute between Korea and Japan.
Having reviewed how the US shaped Asian geopolitics historically, let’s come back to the present-day geopolitics in East Asia which, today, resembles in many ways that of the early 1900s, particularly in that several regional powers are competing to grab the regional leadership. As a result, the delicate balance of power in the region as a legacy of the Yalta System is at great stake. This situation inevitably gives the US many good excuses to meddle in Asian affairs, thereby profiting from others’ infighting.
If an armed conflict broke out between Japan and China, the US could use the conflict as an acceptable excuse for its continued military presence and meddling into Asian affair.
As the Chinese proverb says, “When a snipe and a clam grapple, it is always the fisherman who profits.” In our case, when China and Japan grapple, it is always the US who profits, just as it profited from the two world wars. What a clever but sinister plot!
When Hitlery Rotten Clinton left Beijing two weeks ago fruitless and disgraced, nobody would have foreseen East Asian geopolitics could experience such a rapid change in the following two weeks.
Now, US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is in Beijing for a visit. Whatever his purpose, let’s hope nobody’s interests are sacrificed and the 1905 scene will not be staged once again.
QV: This is BAD with China and Japan
It has been a well established and publicly recognized historical fact that the Diaoyu Islands belong to Japan, as has been recognized by almost every country in the world.
China made no territorial claim until it has been confirmed underground resources in 1970.
Yos, I am not really educated on this subject, when QV gets back he will discuss this with you if you like.
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Historical records reference has been made with regard to the islands in dispute. Any refutation must provide historical records.
Japan’s claim to incontestable sovereignty over the islands goes back no further than its seizure, together with Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, from the Qing empire in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War, and not being forced to give them back in the post-World War II muddle.
The challenge to Chinese ownership of Diaoyu came from Japanese annexation of the Islands in 1894-5 following the first Sino-Japanese War. China under the Qing Dynasty was too weak to fight back and regain lost territory. But annexation through military force does not
confer legitimacy upon the act of conquest. This is why when Japan was defeated in the Second World War the victors who included China and the US recognised that Diaoyu was Chinese territory. Both the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration acknowledged this though for administrative purposes Diaoyu was placed under US control as part of its governance over the Ryukyu Islands. The US was then the occupying power in Japan following the latter’s surrender.
However, when China was taken over by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, the US changed its position and began to treat the Islands as part of Japan. The Chinese communist leadership protested vehemently. In 1971, the US Senate returned the Diaoyu Islands, together with Okinawa, to Japan under the Okinawa Reversion Treaty. Again, the Chinese government in Beijing objected, as did the Taiwan government which also regards the Islands as part of China. Since the normalisation of relations between China and Japan in 1972, both sides have agreed to allow their fisher folk to operate in the waters surrounding the Islands without resolving the issue of ownership. Of course, neither China nor Japan has relinquished even an iota of its claim in the last 40 years. Recent incidents have however forced this unresolved issue into the open.
Careful readers of The Japan Times (presumably including strategists in Beijing) may remember this passage from August 17, 2010:
The Obama regime (America does not have an administration being a war monger and one that colludes openly with terrorists and indulges in extremism) has decided not to state explicitly that the Senkaku Islands, which are under Japan’s control but claimed by China, are subject to the Japan-US security treaty, in a shift from the position of George W Bush, sources said Monday. The Obama regime has already notified Japan of the change in policy. In light of China’s increasing activities in the East China Sea, Japan decided it might take “countermeasures”.
The Japanese “countermeasure” occurred less than three weeks later, on September 8, 2010, when Japan’s ambitious minister of the interior, Seiji Maehara, instructed the coast guard to turn over the captain of a Chinese fishing boat to prosecutors for trial under Japanese law for ramming a pair of coast-guard vessels while trying to evade them near the Senkakus.
The rest is “contain China” history, as the spat escalated to a crisis in Sino-Japanese relations and lip service in favor of Japan’s rights to the Senkakus became an important element of US East Asian policy and justification for the Obama regime’s pivot into Asia.
China’s strategy on the Diaoyu Islands, or Senkakus as Japan calls them, appears to reflect careful calculation of risk and reward by the Beijing leadership, rather than the spasm of counterproductive nationalism sometimes described in the Western press. As a matter of equity, China has a pretty strong claim on the Senkakus. As a matter of geopolitics, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is not holding as weak a hand as one might think.
This is something that the Obama regime to its chagrin, knows well.
China has got its fingers on a global economic hand grenade.
A senior adviser to the Chinese government has called for an economic attack on Japan’s bond market to crash the yen and drive the country into submission, reported the UK Telegraph on September 18.
Alternatively, and more likely, Japan could play hot potato with the live grenade.
America owes Japan more than $1.1 trillion. If Japan sells a portion of its U.S. government bonds to pay China, then instead of Japan having a yen problem, America may have a dollar problem.
America has to be very careful in its dealings with China too. America conducts 2½ times more trade with China than it does with Japan. The U.S. federal government has also borrowed a whopping $1.3 trillion from China (and Hong Kong). China also owns another half trillion or so in other U.S. dollar debt assets.
China has its fingers on the pin of a much bigger hand grenade.
And there is no doubt that China considers America’s debt as a weapon to be used too. China is slowly sawing the branch the US is perched on.
Watch to see how its massive debt leads to a weakness that will alienate its allies. America is about to lose a lot more influence within the Asia Pacific.
China’s influence is increasing in the Asia-Pacific region and even the rest of the world, while the US’ is declining. This is a relatively long-term but inevitable trend, which the US finds very uncomfortable to accept. The change in the balance of power will gradually erode the supremacy of the US and other countries’ confidence in America’s might. This realization seems to be giving American politicians and policymakers sleepless nights.
Japan of late ’20s was psychologically very uneasy with China because KMT just unified the country; Japan of nowadays is psychologically very uneasy with China because for the 1st time China’s GNP surpasses Japan’s.