deanzaZZR comments

Help me now, I'm not a military buff, but I'm guessing Vietnam War hand-me-downs?

Four Philippine FA-50 fighter jets

Tokyo City had an election for governor. These outside Tokyo-to areas have mayors. The more you know ...

Didn't Tokyo just have an election?

Why wasn't this a bigger issue then?

I see a demotion in Capt. Suzuki's future.

I'm not a fan of Harris but the Dem party can craft a message for her highlighting her relative youth, multicultural background and legal mind. Harris would have a chance, not a big one but at least a chance if she somehow steps up to the challenge. Biden has zero chance.

The Japanese navy back to playing silly games off the coast of China once again. And some in the JT "brain trust" are giggly.

Judging by a slew of recent articles I'll go with incompetence to explain the Japanese vessel entering Chinese territorial waters.

Imagine a smaller country to invading its much larger neighbor and indiscriminating murdering millions of civilians.

The Chinese nation includes 1.4 billion people, 24 million of those Chinese are on the island province of Taiwan.

Since no information was provided I'll assume you are in the PH 5 peso army.

Because Lai effectively called for Two Chinas or One China, One Taiwan. The PRC will never allow this to happen.

Once again from the Shanghai Communique, Taiwan's current yojimbo declared,

The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position.

Care to state your nationality? I'm a USA citizen with a Japanese wife who has lived and worked in Taiwan, China and Japan. Why are you seemingly so invested in this issue?

Reagan's White House agreed to decrease arms sales to Taiwan over time. White Man speaks with forked tongue, indeed.

The United States Government states that it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, that its arms sales to Taiwan will not exceed, either in qualitative or in quantitative terms, the level of those supplied in recent years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and that it intends to reduce gradually its sales of arms to Taiwan, leading over a period of time to a final resolution. US China joint communique August 17, 1982

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/united-states-china-joint-communique-united-states-arms-sales-taiwan

The correct title is Director. Raymond Greene and his staff should confine their work to consulate work for American citizens living in Taiwan and commerce as agreed to by the PRC and the USA in the two countries' agreements in the 1970s.

As the Shanghai Communique clear reads, politics is to be decided by the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. By the Chinese themselves. Quit meddling in the internal affairs of another nation.

"The US side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves."

One more example of an out of control bureaucracy trying to expand, hire more people and spend more tax money.

Some additional information is useful.

Revelations on Wednesday that President Yoon Suk-yeol may have intervened in the investigation into the death of a South Korean marine have renewed scrutiny into his actions and fueled accusations of a coverup, putting at risk not only public trust in government but the trajectory of ROK politics.

Corporal Chae Su-geun died in July 2023 while on a rescue mission during the country’s flood season. Investigations revealed that Chae and other marines had not been issued life vests during the mission, leading to his death by drowning after being swept up by currents.

https://koreapro.org/2024/05/new-allegations-yoon-meddled-in-marine-death-case-fuel-scrutiny-of-his-actions/

Modi is a better natural hugger than Xi.

Directly related. Remember when Japan made its 2% of GDP plan and assumed the yen/dollar rate would be 108 yen to a USA dollar? How is that assumption working for you Kish & Co?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/business/japan-yen-defense-spending.html

沒有問題 where do these self-hating Chinese armies come from, Singapore, Malaysia? Even when China was poor patriotism and pride in China was strong. If you spent any time in China you would understand.

And Kishida is still Prime Minister. This is madness.

North Korea poses zero threat to Europe. Yoon is a puppet of the USA. Yoon's conviction after his term is up is guaranteed.

Counterpoint, invest in peace not war.

Which should surprise no one. Filipino recruit to citizen option? What do you thinK, Isabella?

Those are crazy numbers when you consider that Japan's population was 80 million at the time.

Consider the numbers: 727,277 births in 2023 as against 2.5 million in 1947

I don't expect any change other than some rhetorical flourishes. The UK is completely under Uncle Sam's thumb.

Say goodbye to the ginko trees in Meiji Jingu Gaien.

Vive la France.

平和, 和平 It means peace either way you write it.

It seems like more a pattern with another Taiwanese fishing boat being detained in Mainland China because of illegal fishing this week.

Just a one-off from Taiwan. Probably an honest mistake.

Tibet was integrated into the Qing Empire in 1720 long before the USA was even a country. If you get a chance when traveling to Beijing do make time to visit the Tibetan pagoda in Beihai Park that was constructed for the visit of the 5th Dalai Lama to Beijing in the 1650s.

Funny how the pro-Uncle Sam team is perfectly comfortable with Japanese imperialists hoovering up the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879 and USA imperialists hoovering up the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893.

Welp, the Republic of China claimed sovereignty over Taiping Island, the largest of the SCS islands with the blessing of the USA government in 1946. As MacArthur might have said, put that in your corn cob pipe and smoke it.

@PTownsend Now, now your Cold War mentality is showing. Is Iran/Persia not a great enough culture and polity to stand on its own two feet? Knowing many Iranian/Persian Americans my vote is firmly on the 'fully capable' side of the ledger.

I will simply point out that this is happening on the Nepali side of Mount Everest/Chomolungma. The north side in China is better regulated and not polluted.