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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
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I've taken my eye off the international news this year. It was a bit shocking to see the report on Newsnight about China entering Japan's water. Japan developing aircraft carriers and launching their first since WWII this year. A former Japanese minister saying that Japan may have to draw its sword.
Scary. |
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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Those two have been slogging it out since ancient Britons were still running round in rags and shouting 'Ugg Ugg' at each other."
I know but they didn't have the ability to affect the rest of the world with their battles until the last century. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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China is a kick ass country these days and Japan wouldn't stand a chance. I'm sure Japan knows this and would think better of physically going to war with their much stringer neighbour. It's just bluster on Japan's part. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Those two have been slogging it out since ancient Britons were still running round in rags and shouting 'Ugg Ugg' at each other."
Blimey... since 1973!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If it was on Newsnight I'd wait till tomorrow before i believed it, just in case it turns out it was actually just an incident in a swimming pool in Japan but they didn't check the facts  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Those two have been slogging it out since ancient Britons were still running round in rags and shouting 'Ugg Ugg' at each other.
Blimey... since 1973!! "
Yup, that long! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It will never come to serious blows , they are at it all the time , Japan killed a heap of Chinese soldiers a wee while back and that didn't kick it off , no one is going to be pressing any buttons anytime soon , sleep easy people  |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"It will never come to serious blows , they are at it all the time , Japan killed a heap of Chinese soldiers a wee while back and that didn't kick it off , no one is going to be pressing any buttons anytime soon , sleep easy people "
I just about share your confidence but only 'cos Obama won again. Had Romney won it might have been a different matter. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not to be picky but due to sanctions emposed on japan after ww2 by the US, they arent allowed aircraft carriers it heli assault vessels there building However the us is woven through most of japan and the biggest base in asia is in japan so a safe bet to assume the US would step in for them or risk lossing some of the power projection they like so much its not the japs and chines you need to worry about, it the middle east and what did israle do today oh yeah post a battalion of tanks in the gohlan hights. Thats your tinder box and iran is the match just waiting to light it. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"Not to be picky but due to sanctions emposed on japan after ww2 by the US, they arent allowed aircraft carriers it heli assault vessels there building However the us is woven through most of japan and the biggest base in asia is in japan so a safe bet to assume the US would step in for them or risk lossing some of the power projection they like so much its not the japs and chines you need to worry about, it the middle east and what did israle do today oh yeah post a battalion of tanks in the gohlan hights. Thats your tinder box and iran is the match just waiting to light it."
US intervention on Japan's side is a hard possibility to exclude. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I know Japan is Nuclear, is China?"
Its the reverse, China has nuclear weapons, Japan's constitution forbids them after Hiroshima. However they have the know how to build them up in months if they wanted. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sorry I was referring more to power than weapons. Both nuclear then. This could be fun. If they do go to war, I'll off Asimo a place to stay. That is one cool robot |
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"I know Japan is Nuclear, is China?
Its the reverse, China has nuclear weapons, Japan's constitution forbids them after Hiroshima. However they have the know how to build them up in months if they wanted. "
Might be a tad too late by then though  |
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