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- China-Japan relations change lanes
Until today I have stayed quiet regarding the excitement around the deal between China and Japan to “jointly” develop gas fields in the disputed EEZ region of the East China Sea. I have been cautious because rather than seeing an acceleration of China-Japan relations, I think this deal is simply a matter of changing lanes.
Japan [...]
- I hope to see Japanese military planes over China
No, I am not some militarist condoning a preemptive attack on China. I am supporting China’s request for Japanese soldiers to deliver earthquake relief aid in Sichuan. The Japanese government is still deliberating as this would be the first deployment of Japanese military forces to the Chinese mainland since the second world war.
Jun Okumura thinks [...]
- Comparison of submarine fleets in Northeast Asia
Mingi Hyun’s return to blogging about maritime Asia and South Korea’s new submarine program inspired me to put together a comparison of the sub fleets in northeast Asia.
I consulted The Military Balance 2008 for the numbers. Here are the definitions of the classes indicated above:
SSBN=ballistic-missile submarine nuclear-fuelled
SSN= attack submarine nuclear powered
SSGN=SSN with dedicated non-ballistic missile [...]
- Can we survive China’s rush to emulate the American way of life?
Readers would not often catch Lord Curzon perusing the pages of Mother Jones, a liberal-progressive commentary magazine. However, a recent article subtitled, “Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?” caught my eye like few other articles have so far in 2008. That question is, I believe, [...]
- Free Tibet! Free the media!
Stuart Brand is credited with saying Information wants to be free. Today we are seeing the internet work its magic in Tibet. Despite the fact that China is blocking YouTube, CNN and the BBC images and videos from the riots in Tibet are still seeping out to the web.
This is all breaking so I don’t [...]
- Caught “red” handed!
China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope
Earlier this week, Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.The deception—uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam in the award-winning picture—has brought on a big debate about [...]
- Paying for war
While reading Ken Pyle’s Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power And Purpose I came across some interesting info about the second world war reparations for Taiwan and China that I had not heard before.
First of all, after the war under the terms of the Treaty of San Francisco Japan paid a number of South [...]
- Moslem Anti-Kemalist Turks capture Sinkiang!
The Opposite End of China has a jolly good collection of headlines pulled from the New York Times archive between March 1933, when news of a Muslim uprising in western China reached New York, and January 1934, when an independent East Turkestan was established with it’s capital in Kashgar. This should take any great [...]
- Great Leader
Just how big is that statue of Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang? Peter Hitchens took a trip to the great north and took a picture to show us the statues scale.
- Not just lead paint
H/T to Grendel.
