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    The US is obliged to protect those disputed islands in an event of a Chinese invasion under the mutual defence treaty dates back to the 1950s and it has been confirmed by the State Department that America recognises that those islands are under Japanese administration and it opposes any Chinese attempts to undermine it and China is unlikely to take any provocative moves that could lead to war as long as America maintains this stance to keep China in check.

    As I’ve said many times before, although the United States does not take a position on the ultimate sovereignty of the islands, we acknowledge they are under the administration of Japan and we oppose any unilateral actions that would seek to undermine Japanese administration and we urge all parties to take steps to prevent incidents and manage disagreements through peaceful means.
    http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2013/01/203050.htm
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    And I think we are only obligated to the USA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThirdTerm View Post
    The US is obliged to protect those disputed islands in an event of a Chinese invasion under the mutual defence treaty dates back to the 1950s and it has been confirmed by the State Department that America recognises that those islands are under Japanese administration and it opposes any Chinese attempts to undermine it and China is unlikely to take any provocative moves that could lead to war as long as America maintains this stance to keep China in check.
    The problem here is that this is the sort of deal that end up leading to WW1, though the US is obviously a much bigger player of the two.

    The other problem with this is that more or less, Japan is baiting China to attack them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThirdTerm View Post
    The US is obliged to protect those disputed islands in an event of a Chinese invasion under the mutual defence treaty dates back to the 1950s and it has been confirmed by the State Department that America recognises that those islands are under Japanese administration and it opposes any Chinese attempts to undermine it and China is unlikely to take any provocative moves that could lead to war as long as America maintains this stance to keep China in check.

    The treaty obligations don't require the waging of total war. We can make a show at fulfilling our treaty obligations while focusing on our national security interests- which do not include getting into a land war in China, or risking our fleet off its shores.

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    Not to mention, China has show zero intention of actually invading Japan, invoking a full war because of fighting over uninhabited rock is obvious overkill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RollingWave View Post
    Not to mention, China has show zero intention of actually invading Japan, invoking a full war because of fighting over uninhabited rock is obvious overkill.
    Right. It is just geopolitics and scrabbling for crumbs.

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    http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/...an/?hpt=ias_t3

    A nice series of photos of Afghanistan, brings a different perspective from the common theme at least.

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    Japanese Protester protesting against the latest intrusion of Russian planes into Japanese airspace, I'm not sure if they're going to get a lot of good wills from abroad by going all Banzai though...

    Meanwhile, the Japanese claim that a Chinese ship locked on weapon system radars on their coastguard patrol ship a couple days back, if true that is a recipe for disaster , though China deny that accusation.

    Seeing that it would probably be the worst thing ever if the US have to fight a war against China FOR Japan, I'd think it wouldn't be a bad idea to pressure the hell of the Japanese to restraint at all cost.

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    http://travel.cnn.com/tourists-camer...6051?hpt=hp_c4

    Fun story, some lady in Georgia lost a underwater camera on a trip in Maui 5 years ago, someone found it in Taiwan last week, and the local airline is offering her a round trip ticket to pick it up.

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    In other news, Taiwan's nuclear debate is heating up, no.. not nuclear weapons. the Fukushima disaster caused the ongoing construction of the next nuclear power plant to be under fire, the ruling party is going to put it to referendum, though the ramification of this is pretty serious, the other nuclear power plants in Taiwan is over 30 years old and going to be decommissioned soon. assuming we don't build this one and decommission those on time, Taiwan's electricity bill is probably going to suffer a massive hike, something that the anti nuclear folks seem to be downplaying to a completely irrational extend.

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