Gulf of Aden / South China sea

Wow, you mentioned two regions, you are clearly offering sage advice.

It is enough to reach the right people.

the magnetic anomaly near aden?

there is a thread on here already,has been for a couple of years.

i reckon it was initially fuelled by one of those 'super soldiers' championed by projectcamelot etc.. but the story soon ran out of steam.

You are right!

Russian Missile Cruiser to Conduct Live Fire Drills in Rare Visit to South China Sea
The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet is currently in the South China Sea with plans to conduct air defense and “rocket, artillery and torpedo weapons,” drills in a rare visit to the region, according to an announcement issued Wednesday by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The 11,500-ton Slava-class cruiser Moscow (or Moskva) left Singapore after a port call to conduct the training exercises in an unspecified area of the South China Sea in the last few days, read a translation of the statement.
[link to news.usni.org]

Vietnam Is Becoming A Proxy In Efforts To Contain Chinese Influence In The South China Sea
On Oct. 28 India announced that it would sell naval vessels to Vietnam in exchange for an energy-exploration deal. These vessels would arrive at a time of rising tension between Vietnam and China over contested island chains in the South China Sea.
Massive protests broke out across Vietnam in May and over the summer, as citizens torched Chinese businesses after China moved an oil rig into disputed territory west of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
On Oct. 2, the US partially lifted a ban on supplying lethal weapons to the country in a bid to help it improve its maritime security against China.
“This is a very important first step that will engender future cooperation,” an unnamed State Department official told Reuters. “This policy revision enables us to … provide Vietnam the ability to defend itself in the context of its presence in the South China Sea.”
[link to www.businessinsider.com]

Why the US may go to war in the South China Sea
November 5, 2014
As the BBC reported on 15 October 2014, it even appears as though the United States is practicing for war with China in case the conflict heats up. Most articles on the subject explain that what is at stake is a mix of territory, fishing rights, mineral rights and control of shipping lanes.
[link to chinadailymail.com]

Thread: BREAKING SATELLITE INTEL: China Builds New Island in South China Sea - Massive Military Fortress

China and Russia are tiny diked fools that both got fk rammed by the Japanesse many times !!!

"Japanesse" from you are an ass hole?

War related ?

Two very strategic waterways.

Looks like Japan cries for help!

China must be urged not to unilaterally change status quo in South China Sea
November 05, 2014
For Japan and the United States, important sea-lanes straddle the South China Sea. Ensuring the freedom of navigation there is vital for the two nations. China’s hegemonic behavior should never be condoned.
[link to the-japan-news.com]

Thread: selected extracts from me tel u now thread

japan warring thing will commencecing before 15 may secretely

Shipping lanes, oil underwater, disputed islands, heavily armed naval vessels of various nations cruisin around...Yeah, I'm sure this will end well. Not.

Japan-China relations strained over illegal coral poaching
6 November 2014
A cluster of Japanese islands has become a potential flashpoint in already tense relations between Japan and China after Tokyo urged Beijing to crack down on a rise in illegal coral poaching by Chinese fishermen.
The demand came as Japanese officials warned that Chinese poachers currently in the area would not be allowed to take refuge on the Ogasawara islands, located about 600 miles south of Tokyo, from a powerful typhoon expected to arrive later on Thursday.
[link to www.theguardian.com]

it might be to try to destroy the china sub base that that recovered the Malaysian plane that went into the sea offshore vietnam... .

Hot Japanese teens are fully prepared to teach Chinese invaders a lesson about their bikinis

Bank of Japan's Money Can't Match China's Engine
Oct 31, 2014
“China is already Japan’s largest export market, leaving it ideally situated to capture additional market share in the coming surge of Chinese demand for consumer products and services,” Roach added. “Japan cannot afford to squander these opportunities."

Yet Abe has done just that. In 22 months in office, Japan's prime minister has alienated the country’s biggest customer by giving free rein to his nationalistic leanings. Nor has he done much to make Japan less dependent on China, by deregulating the economy or pushing forward free-trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Abe may be the most-traveled Japanese leader ever -- with 49 countries under his belt since December 2012 -- but his administration has little to show for all the globetrotting.

An upcoming trip to Beijing for November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit presents a perfect opportunity to mend relations. China has been playing coy on Abe's bid for a tete-a-tete with President Xi Jinping. According to the state-run Xinhua news service, the onus “is first and last on Abe” to improve relations. In China's view, Abe must stop “whitewashing Japan’s militarist past” and abstain from visiting Yasukuni, the controversial shrine to Japan’s war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals.
[link to www.bloombergview.com]

Time for Japan to bow in front of China

Oops! Looks like the Russian Missile Cruiser went there to support Japan, not China!

Japan destroyer joins drill with Russian Navy
The destroyer Hamagiri of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force leaves the Far Eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on Oct. 28, 2014, to participate in a joint drill with the Russian Navy. (Kyodo)
[link to english.kyodonews.jp]

World Wide Web on November 5 reported that China’s rapid economic development makes China ‘s dependence on marine reached an unprecedented level , and enhance the strength of the Chinese Navy will naturally become China’s urgent needs.
Recently, some foreign media have reported that the past 10 years , China passed the United States Navy at least 30 years to finish the road , and in record time on the quality and quantity beyond Russia and Europe.
Foreign media quoted Western analysts view that the current Chinese navy has been able to rival at sea with Japan , and Russia ‘s Pacific Fleet overwhelmingly on water power.
[link to www.enews163.com]

Japan began exercises Monday with the U.S. Army in Hokkaido, a day after it started naval maneuvers with Russia 800 km away off the coast of Vladivostok.
Japan has separately dispatched the destroyer Hamagiri to Vladivostok for the first joint exercise since Russia’s takeover of Crimea. Even though U.S. and Russian naval ties are frozen, Vice Adm. Robert Thomas, commander of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, sees Japan’s exercises with Russia as a useful point of contact.
Russia supplies about 10 percent of Japan’s natural gas needs.
The Japanese government and corporations are continuing to consider importing more gas from Russia’s Sakhalin Island, which could increase the share of Japan’s gas needs supplied by Russia to about 17 to 18 percent, Abiru said.
[link to www.japantimes.co.jp]

Russian analyst: China “the real military danger” to Russia
2014/11/05
If anyone is going to carry out military aggression against Russia, Aleksandr Khramchikhin, the deputy head of the Moscow Institute for Political and Military Analysis, says, it will not be the West as many Russians think but rather China; and when China does so – and that rather than if is the real question, it will win.

In an article on AsiaRussia.ru yesterday, Khramchikhin argues that a Chinese invasion of Russia is almost inevitable because “objectively” China cannot survive “in its current borders. It must become much bigger if it does not want to become much smaller” and it needs resources Russia and Kazakhstan have but Southeast Asia does not.

Beijing’s military preparedness moves strongly suggest that Chinese leaders are thinking about it. Indeed, “in recent years, the Chinese army has been carrying out exercises which it is simply impossible to treat as anything but preparation for aggression against Russia.”

China is no longer dependent on Russia for arms. Not only has it long demonstrated its ability to steal American and European technology in that area, Khramchikhin says, but its own domestic product has so improved that Russia no longer enjoys unquestioned superiority over China in the military field and in some areas is already far behind.

The only sector within that branch where China continues to purchase significant amounts of Russian military technology is the navy which it would use in the event of operations against Taiwan and the United States. It is “obvious” that there isn’t going to be a naval war between China and Russia; if and when it occurs, it will be between two land forces.
[link to euromaidanpress.com]