Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace -- Business Insider
China's first ever invasion of Japan's airspace happened just weeks ago, but the move appears to becoming a routine addition to the burgeoning standoff.
The AFP now reports:
Japan scrambled fighter jets on Saturday to head off a Chinese state-owned plane that flew near islands at the centre of a dispute between Tokyo and Beijing, a Japanese Defense Ministry spokesman said.
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My Comment: Today's Chinese incursion makes yesterday's Wall Street Journal commentary (A Dangerous Escalation in the East China Sea) all the more prophetic .... China and Japan are on a collision course over these small and barren islands, and both sides are not willing to back down.
What's my take .... Japan cannot compete with China, and time is on China's side. But the Japanese (at least publicly) do not share that point of view.
Update: Could the Senkaku/Daoyus Drag Asia into a War? -- Asian Sentinel
3 comments:
Where exactly did you read that Japan can't compete with China? Japan's "Red Line".. Japan will pulverize.
Where exactly did you read that Japan can't compete with China? Japan's "Red Line".. Japan will pulverize.
Thank you Scott for your comment. Brian Fung has a good article at the Atlantic that explains this. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-japan-cant-compete-with-china/266800/
Time is on China's side, on the economic front and more importantly when it comes to demographics.
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