US and Japanese warplanes once again conducted overflights of the disputed Senkaku Islands today in opposition of China declaring it an air defense zone. For the first time, they were met by Chinese fighter planes.
Japan shrugged off the incident, saying their warplanes were conducting “routine surveillance,” while Chinese officials said their fighters were engaged in an identification mission.
Though neither side seems to want the situation to escalate, likewise neither side seems willing to cut any sort of deal over the islands, which are believed to have considerable offshore oil reserves.
The Pentagon, for its part, also insists that it is going to continue to conduct “routine” flights in violation of Senkaku airspace, saying China’s position on the islands won’t change their policy.
I read this article at RT and IMO, it summed up the entire situation beautifully: http://rt.com/op-edge/globalization-us-china-riva…
Japan ought to know by now that it cannot trust the U.S.:
"The world’s center of gravity is fast shifting. China (and Russia) is the direction to face, whilst America, the UK and their allies are fast imploding. We see it in the irreversible demise of the US dollar, in the mess they turned the Middle East into, in the complete lack of trust they have inspired the world over, and in their successive failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Wall Street and Main Street.
"To conclude, Japan is a pivot. It should follow the recent examples of China, Russia, Iran, India, and of lesser powers like Brazil and even vanquished Libya: act sovereign!"
"Act Sovereign"? They will have to perform an exorcism to evict the US from Japan…..Or maybe a revolution.
Very 'newsy'. Well done!
Can't the UN put this dispute before a non aligned neutral party over the sovereignty of these islands?
And of course flying warplanes through China's claimed airspace is provocation,but what can you expect from the Zionuts and militarists who control policy here in America today?Obomba must be trying to limit the calls of appeasement he's been receiving lately from the wackos on Iran,what a pathetic human marionette.
The U.S. has been ganging up to bully China. But it should refrain from over-doing it because China is no ordinary underdog. China's military might is certainly much bigger than its resolve to go to war with the U.S. If pressed too hard, it just might blow off its frustration and take on the U.S. That would be a situation nobody in his sane mind want to see.