TheRegulator comments

Japan if you are going to play ball with Nato you know this type of policy to special minorities is mandatory.

Maybe Japanese Officers require more navigation training.

A hero.

Reading the comments above it seems most are from people taken in by the media narrative about Ukraine. Note how there are almost never any articles which attempt to explain what has been happening over the last 30 years or even accurately present the Russian viewpoint. That is a feature of propaganda.

Remember this headline, when the missiles start flying in the Asia Pacific in the near future.

Ukraine should take the terms that Russia is offering as it will be the best deal they will ever get. It only gets worse from here.

These islands were supposed to be returned to China after WW2 by rulings made at the Cairo and Potsdam declarations by the Allies.

So with Japan joining, AUKUS will become JAUKUS ? Sounds like and will be a JACKASS.

Sad day for Japan and the remainder of the Pacific. If I was a foreigner in Japan I would seriously think of leaving.

The headline should read "The logistics of war: How Washington is trying to provoke a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

The headline is complete rubbish. Any tension was localized and completely drummed up by media who seem to be off on their own crusade.

Consultation ? Yeah right, of course the US will stop flying Osprey's if Japan objects.

I'm starting to have those deja-vu feelings with flashbacks to the 'manufacture of consent' prior to the US invasion on Iraq. Back then it was all about fictious yellowcake from Niger, aluminum centrifuge tubes, anthrax and mysterious connections to Al Queda. Amazing to see history repeat again and again.

Something all the same lines seems to happen for foreign workers in Israel. They need to sign pledge not to have sex with Israelis.

Taiwan is part of China according to the 1972 US - China communiques, this established the One China Policy which is still respected and supposedly adhered to by the US and most of the world. However the US has not adhered by to the agreement by continuing to arm Taiwan, interfering in Taiwan politics and establishing what is actually a de-facto embassy in Taiwan. If it all goes south from here, you now know who to blame.

Everyone looks so calm, happy and relaxed despite the situation in the middle east spiraling out of control and the war in Ukraine being well and truly lost.

Got to admire the Houthis, they've got a lot of guts.

'Training for war' heavily emphasized in this headline. Yeah of course training for war is what soldiers, sailors and airman do but is the purpose of this 'article' supposed to send a message that war with China is a given?

Textbook case of US smoke and mirrors.

Hysteria level is reaching fever pitch on the subject of Taiwan. Step out of the propaganda feed and look back, I hope you can spot it.

I feel sorry for the US servicemen and women who now need to eat contaminated fish, I bet Rahm isn't. This story sure sounds like a load of codswollop.

There has been no independent investigation or confirmation that a massacre took place in Bucha, we are expected to believe everything Ukraine tells us without question, I don't.

Awh, it's unfair, so sorry, have some sashimi Kevin while in Japan.

The ex-president of Russia state that nukes could be used if an attempt to take Russian territory is made. France, UK and the US would do the same. But let's not forget which country dropped 2 nuclear weapons on Japan, it wasn't Russia.

Who in their right mind would pay money or dedicate their time to watch this movie ? More absolute empty -headed so called entertainment from Hollywood.

I don't believe that this was the real reason for her visit. More likely it was to convince China to buy more US debt and not to dump US treasuries.

Blinken, Sullivan, Biden and Nuland, they are all a rotten bunch.

The counteroffensive is not going well, Crimea is a long way away.

TaiwanisChina

No I said Canadian aircraft in the SCS, but I believe that they are also operating out of Japan. For 70 years ? I don't think that most of what I said has been in place for 70 days let alone 70 years. But you bring up a good point. For 70 years that agreement between the US and China over Taiwan has kept the peace, if peace is important to the US, Japan etc, why then are they changing the status quo ? And no, China has not threatened to invade Taiwan but they have said that use of military force is an option should Taiwan declare independence.

Quid pro quo - US bases in Japan and Korea, Canadian and Australia aircraft and ships in SCS, US sail throughs of the Taiwan Strait, new US military bases in the Philippines, US nuke sub visits to Korea, US B52 bombers to be based in Australia, Nato office in Japan, AUKUS, Quad - everybody is worried including me and I live in the South Pacific