Big U.S. Fleet Nears Disputed Islands, But What For?

Lovely, we really need to stay out of this idiotic dispute. Give the leaders of Japan and China a cage to fight it out in, last man standing gets to claim the islands. Meanwhile make it pay per view and pay off some of the debt.

None of our boys need to die over this ego filled "face saving" crotch grabbing nonsense.

Now if only China would impose export sanctions... We'd see full employment damn fast as American workers jobs got rapidly unoffshored.

Exactly. NO American should die for the japs.

And you can bet your bottom dollar the fleet is being shadowed by Chinese subs.

Oh but don't get your hope high on the job market no matter happens. Mr. Dell will simply move his Chinese factory to Thailand...

Having the U.S. as a buffer between China and Japan virtually assures there will be no war.

No worries...

The real doom you are looking for will be here soon enough.

my Chinese friend says 10 years before China goes to war.
Not ready yet

LOL

Who knows,. They look like little rocks in the ocean.

Having the U.S. as a buffer between China and Japan virtually assures there will be no war.

No worries...

The real doom you are looking for will be here soon enough.

We should not fool ourselves. China has a lot of claims all over the place.

What is clear today is, that they want it all back. Even if an island was lost some hundreds of years ago.

If you know chinese history and their state of self awareness today, we know what the dragon is up to.

Good, bad, right, or unjust, does not really matter.

my Chinese friend says 10 years before China goes to war.
Not ready yet

Expert: the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese small-scale conflict that the United States does not directly intervene in

[link to translate.googleusercontent.com]

China will not have 4 more carriers built by 2013. The first one will be ready for sea trials (supposedly) in 2013. They haven't even laid the keel on atleast 2 of the ships.

Those islands have long been considered Japanese territory. Even Chinese maps have shown them as such.

Are we to let China be belligerent toward our long time allies?

[link to fpc.state.gov]

September 30, 20127\
TOKYO – It’s probably just a coincidence; no need to worry yet. But the U.S. has quietly assembled a powerful air, land and sea armada not far from where Japan and China are squaring off over disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Two Navy aircraft carrier battle groups and a Marine Corps air-ground task force have begun operating in the Western Pacific, within easy reach of the Senkaku Islands. That’s where Japanese and Chinese patrol boats are engaged in an increasingly tense standoff.

Chinese vessels have repeatedly entered territorial waters around the small islands in recent weeks and Coast Guard vessels from Japan and Taiwan fired water cannons at each other last week. The islands are controlled and administered by Japan, but claimed by both China and Taiwan.

Carrier groups and Marine task forces often operate alone, so the convergence of the three groups in a relatively small part of the Pacific represents an unusual concentration of firepower. All three are fresh from training exercises in and around Guam. Those exercises included live-fire with missiles and joint beach landings by U.S. Marines and Japanese ground troops.

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. . . the Bayou?

Why is noone talking about the Bayou this entire weekend?