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I didn't say anything for there to be agreement of disagreement regarding Dokdo and the sea. Reported for excessive attempt at instigating via framing.

JS Kaga, JS Ikazuchi, and JS Shoryu on their training through the Indo-Pacific working with partner countries Australia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the US. It's a reminder to China that other countries are getting nervous about China and are responding because of it.

He already apologized for decades. And the US and Japan gave China the economic chance to rise. You're view puts China into taking for granted that opportunity for peaceful rise and instead makes threats on Taiwan and countries around the South China Sea. Cooperation is all that is needed from...

That's a very big ball of fluffy cotton candy held by ranting boy. If the PRC can't even make into realization of it threats on Taiwan, then it it won't happen at the next step with Japan. As for "revenge for Unit 731 and Nanking"... history is complex and that was 80 years ago. No country...

Seems fine. It's good to not let geopolitical competition interfere with literally everything.

Nah, I'm not hoping for it to happen. But it could.

Yeah, he'll be updating for another 100 years about how soon unification will happen on PDF no doubt. Unless CCP China falls apart before then.

When they cancelles aegis-ashore, I was disappointed, but when they mentioned they were considering 3 alternative options that were either BMD destroyer, a BMD barge sort of thing, or BMD off shore rig, I was hoping for the destroyer option for greater survivability and usability. I would have...

Certainly the CCP energy resource committee knows.

It's been over 5 years since making this sort of "steps towards unification" articles that are in the future tense. Still hasn't happened. The longer this thread goes, the less likely it looks because it is always the same old sort of thing... "so and so will increase.. so and so plan on.. so...

The more ships in the PLAN, the greater the dependency on ME oil it becomes. So keep making more hulls with old fashion propulsion. It'll still be easy to cut the PLAN ME oil bud while Japan's will remain intact. India will gladly host ME bud cutters. Feel free to put the big glass navy on...

JS Hyuga, a US-2, a P-1, and a P-3C conducted joint-training in Exercise Malabar 2016 from June 10th to June 17th in the waters from Sasebo to east of Okinawa. Other participants in the exercise were IN Satpura, IN Sahyadri, IN Shakti, and IN Kirch from the Indian and USS John C. Stennis, USS...

Indo-Pacific's "NATO" is the QUAD. As the QUAD matures, it can introduce mechanisms that facilitate cooperation with NATO. NATO already has partner countries well beyond Europe which include Japan. If QUAD doesn't mature further, then there is still strong trilateral defense relations between...

The following was a recent speech by the German defense minister. ----start---- It is always a joyful event to receive an award, but especially when the recognition comes from such a distinguished source. The Steuben-Schurz Society is the oldest existing German-American Friendship forum. It...

There's room for improvement on the US side. But of the problem though is the strategic location Okinawa is cursed with. But if the base transfer from Futenma to Henoko could go uninterrupted, than a large US base in the middle of a residential area might already have been moved out. The bases...

Japan is already the stigma indosed "militarized". That happened when the constitution was reinterpreted in 2014, new defense bills being drawn up based on that reinterpretation and passed thus becoming law in 2015, and those new laws entering into effect in 2016.

The shinshin program is not cancelled. The F-35As are placing F-4s and about 100 non-upgraded F-15Js. The F-35Bs will be more or less additional fighter squadrons for the two Izumo-class DDHs that are to be converted into light carriers. The Shinshin program resulted in the tech demonstrator...

It was a very informative link. But it doesn't say control.

Your off-topic response means you agree in reality without directly admitting it.

USS John S. McCain conducted Free and Open Indo-Pacific on October 9th. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/10/1a87228dcb81-china-urges-us-to-halt-provocative-actions-in-s-china-sea.html