The Ryukyu Islands, as seen on a map at the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor. Samurai Wiki
SCMP/AFP: US plans to conduct first missile drill near divisive Okinawa base, countering China’s ballistic weapons
* The drill would reportedly involve a mobile rocket launcher seen as a countermeasure to potential attacks from Chinese surface-to-sea ballistic missiles
* China’s military build-up has unnerved Asian neighbours, with Japan’s defence chief last year saying China was ‘unilaterally escalating’ activities
The US military will this year conduct its first missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report on Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill by Japan’s key ally, the Sankei reported, without citing sources.
The drill would involve a mobile rocket launcher seen as a countermeasure to potential attacks from Chinese surface-to-sea ballistic missiles, the paper said.
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Update: US To Hold "First-Ever" Missile Drill On Japan's Okinawa (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: This is all about sending a message to China, and a reminder to China that Okinawa does not belong to them .... China Wants Okinawa (January 1, 2016).
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If we are going that far back, if China gets Okinawa, then Germany gets Kaliningrad oblast.
China does not have a claim to Okinawa other than it was an independent kingdom with which it had friendly relations and many Chinese lived there.
"Around 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked the Ryukyu Kingdom to aid in his campaign to conquer Korea. If successful, Hideyoshi intended to then move against China. As the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of the Ming dynasty, the request was refused"
So will the usual suspects (Leftists), who ask the Americana and Canadians to leave North America, ask the Japanese to leave Okinawa?
China might want any oil around the islands. If there were no oil they would still want the islands. They do not want Taiwan or Okinawa to be part of a SOSUS net keeping their fleets bottled up.
Fleets bottled up is the same as no fleets and no fleets in time of war guarantees no oil.
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