China says worried by Japan arms exports ban revision

[shuntmaster]

Izumo-class

I would love to see some of these baby's in Indian Navy..

 

[BoQ77]

I think this baby is the answer for recent China movement.
There's no cause, there's no effect.

It's so strange that, almost everyone believe in what Mr. Shinzo Abe alerted about Chinese danger ... but no one worried about a Japan raising, except Chinese ...

 

[Reviewer21]

Can anyone explain me, why they banned export of weapons, they are the maestros in technology, if allowed I am sure many countries would like to purchase. They why ban?

BEIJING Tue Feb 25, 2014

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a lower house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo

(Reuters) - China expressed concern on Tuesday about Japan's drafting of new guidelines that would reverse a decades-old ban on weapons exports, saying it was a worrying part of Japan's swing to the right.

A source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Sunday that Japan had drafted the new guidelines. The changes would likely further strain Japan's ties with China and South Korea.

Japan has been reviewing the self-imposed export ban under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new security strategy, aimed at bolstering the self-reliance of the military.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Japan had to address its neighbors' concerns about allowing he export of weapons.

"Against the backdrop of an intensifying swing to the right for Japanese politics, the intention behind and effect of massively loosening restrictions on the export of weapons really worries people," she told a daily news briefing.

"We hope that Japan can really learn the lessons of history, respect and face up to the legitimate and reasonable security concerns of its Asian neighbors and ... take real steps to promote regional peace and stability."

China's ties with Japan have long been poisoned by what China sees as Japan's failure to atone for its occupation of parts of China before and during World War Two.

China's state media said on Tuesday the government would this year likely approve the commemoration of two important dates - China's victory over Japan in the war and the other to mark the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.

China says Japanese troops killed 300,000 people in a massacre in the country's then-capital. A post-war Allied tribunal put the death toll at 142,000, but some conservative Japanese politicians and scholars deny a massacre took place.

It was not immediately clear how the days would be marked or if they would be designated public holidays.

China's anger over the past is never far from the surface of relations that have deteriorated sharply over the past 18 months because of a dispute over a chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.

Ships from both countries shadow each other around the islets and Japan has scrambled jets numerous times in response to Chinese aircraft, raising fears of a clash.

Serving as prime minister for a rare second time and enjoying solid public approval, Abe says Japan needs a stronger military to cope with what he calls an increasingly threatening security environment, with a more militarily assertive China and unpredictable North Korea.

China says worried by Japan arms exports ban revision| Reuters

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Can anyone explain me, why they banned export of weapons, they are the maestros in technology, if allowed I am sure many countries would like to purchase. They why ban?

Because they are trying to portray themselves as a pacifist society and put all the war stuff behind them.

 

[Reviewer21]

Just that..

Because they are trying to portray themselves as a pacifist society and put all the war stuff behind them.

 

[xunzi]

I said it before... Japan is bound to go imperial again... finish were they left off. This time they should arm Uighur and Tibetians.

Except this time, we have the mean and power to exterminate them.

 

[Mighty Caty]

The problem is who is going to buy these. Japanese arms industry has been suffered price leveling just like all its other industries. Basically, for the same qaulity, the Japanese product is unreasonably expensive.Take F-2 for example, it is a dedicated anti-ship aircraft and it is technical spec is nothing to write home about among the four gen aircrafts (actually well below the average performance), but it cost 127 million USD just for domestic manufacturing. It is more than four times more expensive than a F15 or a Su-30 and both of these aircraft will blow F-2 out of water any time. Heck, even JF-17 would perform better as a general purpose aircraft and it is less than 1/6 of the cost of F-2.

The cost for F-2 is distorted by developmental cost, since Japanese need to buy license for 60% of electronic and equipment used in F-2

It would be 40% less if the buyer choose of the shelve technology (A move Japanese themselves cannot do because of the import ban) and a further 10 millions discount for every 50 aircraft made

If a buyer bought F-2 aircraft without the US licensed product and in an order of 100 or more, the per unit cost would be roughly half what the Japanese paying

and I don't think JF-17 is the same league with F-16, it would not be the same league with the F-2

F-2 to F -16 is the super hornet to the hornet

 

[bolo]

Just that..

part of their ww2 surrender conditions.

 

[IndoUS]

Do they have anything to offer to us other than US2???? I'd love if they've any light tank in their inventory

A lot, they are a tech giant, and have way way way.... more experience in R&D than India.

 

[bolo]

I think this baby is the answer for recent China movement.
There's no cause, there's no effect.

It's so strange that, almost everyone believe in what Mr. Shinzo Abe alerted about Chinese danger ... but no one worried about a Japan raising, except Chinese ...

Because you are too stupid to realize that the jap is tricking you by dangling a carrot in front of you guys making you think you guys are like brothers from different mothers.

 

[xunzi]

Can someone lists some Japanese military technology that is advance so I can take a look at this. I often hear this "advance technology" but never really know what exactly Japanese have in their arsenal that is above everyone else. Most of their "advance technology" comes from the US or buying and produce with US's license.

 

[BoQ77]

Because you are too stupid to realize that the jap is tricking you by dangling a carrot in front of you guys making you think you guys are like brothers from different mothers.

Yeah maybe they lure us, while Chinese guys keep call us idiots ... or stupid guys ..
That's because of you, you, Chinese !!! But now we prefer Japan

 

[Reviewer21]

So will they have to face any legal action, as they would've signed an agreement?

part of their ww2 surrender conditions.

 

[senheiser]

hope they sell Russia some of the weapons

 

[bolo]

Yeah maybe they lure us, while Chinese guys keep call us idiots ... or stupid guys ..
That's because of you, you, Chinese !!! But now we prefer Japan

So will they have to face any legal action, as they would've signed an agreement?

Yes, they have to answer to their master, US.