President Biden told Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a phone call on Monday that the US would defend the Senkaku Islands in the event of a Chinese attack.
The Senkakus, known as the Diayous in China, are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. They are currently controlled by Japan and are also claimed by China and Taiwan.
In a statement on the call, Japan’s Foreign Ministry said that Biden had “reaffirmed the US’s unwavering commitment to the defense of Japan including the application of Article V of the Japan-US Security Treaty to the Senkaku Islands.”
Article V is the section of the US-Japan Security Treaty that outlines the mutual defense agreement between the two countries. Kishida told reporters on Tuesday that President Biden had given “strong remarks on the US commitment to defend Japan, including Article V.”
The Senkaku Islands have turned into a potential flashpoint for a conflict between the US and China since the Obama administration when the US first affirmed it would come to Japan’s defense if the islands were attacked. The Biden administration first made the pledge that it would defend the Senkakus to Japan back in January when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin first spoke with his Japanese counterpart.
Kishida said that he and Biden agreed to work together on “challenges facing neighboring regions such as China and North Korea.” The Japanese leader said he wants to strengthen military ties with the US as well as other “democracies” in Asia and Europe.
Let the dead bury the dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.
Wonderful. smh
Idiotic. WW3 coming up.
‘military ties with the US as well as other “democracies” in Asia and Europe.’
I am glad to see the quotation marks!!!
Gratuitous interference as usual. China can negotiate without needing more conflict from the USA.
Cut medicare and sell the post office to raise cash. China sure won’t loan us the money to attack itself.
Good old boy Joe Biden may be a tad overconfident because the US did so well in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well, I know I am certainly not going to defend that d*mn island. I am just a little upset that my tax dollars may go toward that endeavor and perhaps WWIII.
Sounds like old joe is looking for a bargaining chip. ‘You can have Taiwan, but that’s it.’ When China moves on Taiwan if the US doesn’t stand up we’ll pay ransom prices to Xi forever for microchips and processors.
Sullivan & Blinken have done the calculations -military, financial, geopolitical, and domestic- which indicate China will not be in a position to call the US bluff (gain more than it loses) for another quantum of years (say 5). So they tell Joe “go ahead and grande stand it.”
The islands were Chinese until the Sino-Japanese war of 1895.
Japan having stolen them by war, claims that they are an “integral” part of Japan.
The US just wants an excuse to sell bombs.
Any old excuse to go to war with China. Wash. is mongering war in both Europe and Asia.
So we’re prepared to go to war- potentially a nuclear war- over some uninhabited islands on the other side of the world. What happens if Taiwan- who also claims the islands- decides to set up shop on them? Will we attack Taiwan in observance of our treaty with Japan?
Well, airmen, sailors, and troops, you’ve got a choice, now that the policy has been announced. Go along with this suicidal mission or leave Uncle Sugar to his foolishness. (I won’t give the same considerations to the Marines, they’re brainwashed enough to do anything they’re ordered to do.)
We have given up on figuring out driving directions, and by the looks of it — algorithms are determining our policy positions.
Whatever the variables are taken into account do not reflect the reality. Just wishful thinking.
No algorithms predicted gas crisis in Europe, by far more serious crisis than some coal shortage in China. Promise to Japan is meaningless, as Japan will not ruin its economy over an island taken from China in WWII. We are, on the other hand, assuming that Japan is willing to go to war with China over it. And that Japan will make its territory as a springboard for starting war.
Should US attempt anything this stupid as attempting to attack China, all our naval assets will be at the bottom of ocean in no time. Drones announced in 2018 are very likely already deployed. And in any serious conflagration Russia will not wait to see China damaged.
The real question is — why embarrass ourselves? Chinese Foreign Ministry has remarked on never having seen a beggar so assured of righteousness. Basically , China is nit amused by our trade Tzarina has declared that US should stop China innovating?
Whatever algorithms are being used — it is a mess. Perhaps it is time to engage the old fashioned brain,
Or the Oracle of Delfi
Maybe China should invite the Taliban to their island.
The Taliban got ($billions of weapons) in retribution from Biden
The japanese always run like chihuahuas with American weapons pointed back at them
They haven’t forgotten heroshrimpma
(Deleting or down voting without comment means you are agreeing in total frustration and truth)
“The japanese always run like chihuahuas with American weapons pointed back at them
They haven’t forgotten heroshrimpma”
Nobody holds a monopoly on the absolute truth. Neither you nor I. If people downvote, with or without a response, it simply means they disagree, and that’s it. We can all agree to disagree, can’t we?
Maybe
But down vote can also mean
(Deleting or down voting without comment means you are agreeing in total frustration because you hate the truth)