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Japan-China conflict; disputes between Japan and China
Topic Started: Tue Nov 5, 2013 2:48 am (476 Views)
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Japan rejects Chinese protests over sea drills

By Elaine Lies
NATIONAL NOV. 02, 2013 - 06:36AM JST TOKYO

Japan on Friday denied interfering with Chinese military exercises in the western Pacific after Beijing lodged a formal diplomatic protest, saying China’s objections were unacceptable and it had acted in line with international law.

Ties between the Asian neighbors have been strained for months by a long and bitter dispute over islands in the East China Sea believed to be surrounded by energy-rich waters, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said his nation is ready to be more assertive towards China.

China’s defense ministry on Thursday slammed Japan’s “dangerous provocation” in shadowing the drills, without clearly stating the location. It also said Japan had disrupted the live fire exercises.

Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters that Japan had done nothing to interfere with the exercises, which he said were carried out in the sea southeast of the Sakishima island chain, south of the disputed islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. “We have carried out the usual precautionary observations in accordance with international law,” Onodera said. “China’s views are unacceptable.”

Chinese defense ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said on Thursday that Japanese patrols of ships and aircraft were gathering information about the exercises. “This is a highly dangerous provocation, and China’s defense ministry has made solemn representations to the Japanese side,” he added, according to a transcript of his remarks on the ministry’s website.

Onodera said Tokyo’s views had been conveyed to Beijing and that Japan was committed to defending its territory. But he also appeared to hold out an olive branch, saying that clear communications were needed between the two nations. “For China to carry out regular drills is not illegal, and for us to be cautious is also natural, I believe,” he said. “It’s important to set up a Japan-China hot line so suspicion and mistrust doesn’t arise between the two sides.”

Ties between the two countries took a hit in September 2012 after Japan bought two of the disputed islets from a private owner, setting off a wave of protests and boycotts of Japanese goods across China. Patrol ships from both nations have been shadowing each other near the islets, raising fears that an accidental collision or other unintended incident could develop into a larger clash.

Last week, Chinese military aircraft flew near Japan three days in a row, prompting Tokyo to scramble fighter jets each time.

China on Saturday criticized a Japanese media report saying Abe had approved a policy for Japan to shoot down foreign drones that ignored warnings to exit its airspace. (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2013.

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Japan posts ‘unarmed’ missiles in Pacific isle

Tokyo — Japan’s military is to station four unarmed missiles on an island that sits on the gateway to the Pacific, officials said Thursday, for a major drill that has made China nervous.

The exercise, aimed at bolstering defence of Japan’s southern islands, has already seen a launching system and a loader for Type-88 surface-to-ship missiles installed on Miyako island.

“This is the first time” that missile systems have been taken to Miyako, said a spokesman for the Joint Staff of the Self Defence Forces, adding that the missiles could not be fired in their present state.

“The drill is designed for the defence of islands,” he said.

While the Japanese military makes no secret of the fact these missiles are not operable, observers say their deployment serves to remind anyone watching of Japan’s capabilities.

The missiles were expected to arrive later Thursday and it was not clear how long they would stay for.

The Self Defense Forces began their 18 days of war games on November 1, with 34,000 military personnel, six vessels and 360 aircraft.

The exercise comes amid growing nervousness in Japan and other parts of Asia over China’s surging military might, which has seen it expand its naval reach into the Pacific Ocean as it squabbles with Tokyo over the ownership of islands in the East China Sea.

It also has separate disputes with numerous countries over competing claims to territories in the South China Sea, which China claims as virtually all its own.

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No Chinese jets scrambled: Japan

BY REIJI YOSHIDA
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Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday denied Beijing’s claim that it scrambled fighter jets in response to Self-Defense Forces aircraft that had entered China’s new air defense identification zone, saying Tokyo has received no such reports.

“There have been no abnormal situations, such as (Chinese) aircraft suddenly approaching (SDF planes in the ADIZ), as announced by China yesterday,” Onodera, surrounded by reporters, said Saturday morning.

“We don’t have the impression that the Chinese side’s reaction has suddenly changed after the establishment of the air defense identification zone” in the East China Sea, Onodera said in footage aired by NHK.

Onodera at the same time said it is important for the two countries to “react calmly” to avoid “any unexpected events.”

Tokyo and Beijing are locked in a propaganda war over the new ADIZ. China argues foreign aircraft must comply with its rules and submit flight plans in advance. If they fail to do so, China has said it may take “defensive measures.”

In an apparent bid to show off the military and monitoring capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army, China said “fighter jets with the PLA Air Force on Friday morning took off in an emergency response to verify two reconnaissance aircraft from the United States and identify 10 Japanese planes,” the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

But officials in Tokyo have denied this claim.

“That (report) is a sheer fabricated story,” an unnamed government official was quoted as saying later in the day by Jiji Press.

The United States and Japan have rejected China’s ADIZ as a violation of international law and have been sending military aircraft into the zone without notifying Beijing beforehand.

In a related move Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has proposed to the International Civil Aviation Organization that member countries should discuss how to react to China’s establishment of the ADIZ, as it “is feared to threaten the order and safety of international civil aviation” in airspace over the East China Sea.

Tokyo made the suggestion at a meeting of the ICAO Council in Montreal on Friday, the ministry said. The Council consists of 36 countries, including Japan, the U.S, China, South Korea, Britain, Russia and Australia.

Despite the tough joint stance taken by Japan and the United States over the issue, Washington made a partial about-face Friday by urging U.S. commercial airlines to comply with Beijing’s demands to be notified in advance of flights through the ADIZ.

Attention will now focus on whether Tokyo, which has called on domestic airlines to ignore China’s ADIZ rules, will follow Washington’s lead.

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China-Japan Conflict Could Lead to World War III, Warns Former UN Ambassador
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Former Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Sha Zukang has warned that the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands could lead to World War III.

Citing a Chinese-language piece written by Zukang for the the pro-regime Global Times, a report in the China Times says that Zukang warned of the futility of going to war over “those two tiny rocks,” a reference to the disputed islands which have become the center of a geopolitical tug of war between China and Japan, with the United States and South Korea also becoming embroiled.

“If China started a war with Japan, it would be much larger than both the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, said Sha. The United States and Japan should cooperate with China to maintain regional peace,” states the report.

Zukang’s rhetoric sounds somewhat alarmist but it is not that different in tone from sober analysts such as Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who warned that the escalating crisis represents a “watershed moment for the world” and means “Asia is on the cusp of a full-blown arms race.”

Zukang was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last year as the under-secretary-general for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He also served as Chinese ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Zukang is known as an outspoken figure who previously said the United States should “shut up” over its complaints about Beijing’s military build-up.

He sounded a more conciliatory note on the current crisis, calling for “politicians and people from both countries to sit down and talk.”

As we reported earlier, The Japanese media has also been busy dreaming up war scenarios in response to the crisis, with popular weekly news magazines envisioning a major conflict between the two superpowers, possibly as early as January.

Tensions have been running high after Beijing imposed an “air defense zone” over the disputed Senkaku Islands and hinted that it may shoot down any foreign aircraft entering the area. The U.S., Japan and South Korea quickly rendered this threat toothless by performing several overflights of the area without notifying Chinese authorities.

Yesterday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry announced that it would impose its own “air identification zone” in the region, an area which overlaps those of Japan and China, an expansion that will go into effect on December 15.
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More Japanese investors coming here

Japan investors are expected to locate into the country even more as the Philippines possesses all three elements – good economy, good business climate, and business-friendly environment – that Japanese investors are looking for in an investment.

Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory L. Domingo told reporters in a chance interview that these three things are what the Japanese investors are looking at as a place to invest and the Philippines was able to qualify.

Domingo, however, said that the Japanese are also looking at other countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and to some extent Malaysia, but the Philippines is high on their list.

“The Japanese love us, we have very good relationship with them,” he said.

Thus, 2014 would be a year for Japanese in the Philippines in terms of number of projects and jobs creation. Domingo, however, does not set investment inflow targets, but said that 2014 would be a lot better.

He also said that the inflow of foreign direct investments into the country will not only be Japanese firms relocating outside of China, but there are big Japanese investors that are diversifying their production hubs in the region.

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JAPAN SENDS STRONG MESSAGE TO CHINA WITH INCREASED MILITARY SPENDING SPREE

Japan will splurge on military hardware, including stealth fighters and amphibious vehicles, in a significant boost of defence spending to counter an increasingly aggressive China.

Hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet approved a new national security strategy to beef up military spending by 2.6%, reversing a decade of cuts. Japan will spend 24.7 trillion ($240 billion) over five years as part of shoring up military capabilities in the face of what Abe called an “increasingly severe” security environment.

Under the defence plan, Japan will purchase stealth fighters, anti-missile destroyers, surveillance drones and submarines. The military will also create an amphibious force capable of retaking far-flung islands to boost defence of territories at the heart of a bitter territorial dispute with China.

“China is attempting to change the status quo by force in the skies and seas of the East China Sea and South China Sea and other areas, based on its own assertiveness, which are incompatible with the established international order,” Japan said in its first national security strategy.

“China’s stance toward other countries and military moves, coupled with a lack of transparency regarding its military and national security policies, represent a concern to Japan and the wider international community and require close watch.”

The new defence guidelines approved on Tuesday Tokyo will introduce a “dynamic joint defence force” that will allow air, land and sea forces to work more effectively.

The move comes as Abe seeks to break from the shackles of post-war pacifism and pave the way for a greater military role for Japan.

He said the defence strategy will allow Japan to better shoulder its responsibilities through what he calls “proactive pacifism.”

“We hope to make further contributions to the peace and stability of the international community through proactive pacifism,” Abe said. “This shows with transparency our country’s diplomatic and defence policies.

Abe added that the strategy is a measured and logical response to “a real and increasing threat,” the BBC reports.

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Japan Vows Defense as China Ships Near Disputed Isles


TOKYO — Japan’s defense minister vowed Sunday to defend the country’s territory as three Chinese government ships entered disputed waters off Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea, the first such incident this year.

The Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into the 12-nautical-mile territorial waters at about 8:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) off one of the Senkaku islands, which China also claims and calls the Diaoyus, Japan’s coastguard said. They left less than two hours later.

“We can never overlook repeated incursions into territorial waters,” Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters.

“We need to make diplomatic efforts on one hand. We also want to firmly defend our country’s territorial sea and land with the Self-Defence Forces cooperating with the Coast Guard,” he added.

Chinese state-owned ships and aircraft have approached the Senkakus on and off to demonstrate Beijing’s territorial claims, especially after Japan nationalized some of the islands in September 2012.

It was the first time Chinese ships had been spotted since Dec. 29 when three coast guard ships entered the zone and stayed for around three hours, the Japan Coast Guard said.

Japanese coast guard patrol boats have tried to chase Chinese vessels away, fueling tensions which some fear could spiral out of control into an armed clash.

Japan’s conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed no compromise on the sovereignty of the islands and recently announced a boost in military spending to beef-up the nation’s defense.


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Why Japan's Smaller Military Could Hold Its Own Against China

China's soaring military spending — up 12.3% this year — and aggressive gestures in the region could be setting the scene for major conflict. With various countries feuding over Pacific territory, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe compared the ratcheting tensions to Europe before World War I.

China's $188 billion military budget far surpasses the $49 billion budget of Japan, its biggest regional rival, even if it doesn't come close to America's budget of $640 billion.

China's military is also much bigger than Japan's, with lots more equipment and 2.3 million active personnel compared to 58,000. Consequently, China ranks third on the Global Firepower Index, which heavily weights sheer numbers, behind the U.S. and Russia and ahead of Japan at tenth.

But is China's military actually stronger than Japan's?

First of all, it should be noted that any military conflict between China and Japan would likely draw in Japan's superpower ally. The U.S. is bound by a mutual defense treaty to protect Japan, including the contested Senkaku islands, and it operates numerous military bases in Japan.

Even on its own, however, Japan's smaller military has a qualitative advantage over China.

The majority of Chinese weapons systems are in various stages of decay, as detailed by Kyle Mizokami at War Is Boring. Only 450 of China's 7,580 tanks are anywhere near modern. Likewise, only 502 of China's 1,321 strong air force are deemed capable — the rest date to refurbished Soviet planes from the 1970s.

Only half of China's submarines have been built within the past twenty years.

China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is a refurbished Soviet ship from the 1980s that is too small to launch most long-range planes and will probably be limited to hugging China's coast.

In comparison, Japan has been supplied with advanced military equipment from the U.S. In the coming year, it is slated to purchase new anti-missile destroyers, submarines, amphibious vehicles, surveillance drones, fighter planes, and V-22 Ospreys from the U.S. Japan also expects to receive deliveries of F-35s starting in March 2017.

The F-35 is Liaoning's worst nightmare, China's state-owned Global Times reported based on a Kanwa Asian Defense, which found that the F-35 could strike the Liaoning with hard-to-intercept joint strike missiles from a safe distance of 290km. The F-35 should also be able to locate and engage China's main aircraft, the J-15, before the F-35 is even detected.

The Japanese islands are also well protected by a missile defense system equipped with Standard Missile-3 and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors. These missiles are capable of shooting down a ballistic missile both inside and outside of Earth's atmosphere.

"Japan has the strongest navy and air force in Asia except for the United States," Dr. Larry M. Wortzel, the president of Asia Strategies and Risks, said in a presentation at the Institute of World Politics last September. "They're still restricted by Article 9 of the Constitution, which forever renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation ... but you don't want to mess with them."

While Japan maintains a significant qualitative advantage, however, the vast size of China's military should not be understated, nor its rapid expansion and modernization. No wonder Japan has responded with its first military expansion in more than 40 years.

Meanwhile, the standoff is hurting most groups short of the military industrial complex.
As noted by U.S. Trust's Joseph Quinlan: "No one is predicting an armed conflict between China and Japan, but the rising ill will between the two parties hardly engenders investor confidence in a region built on peaceful regional relations and unfettered trade and investment flows."

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Abe blasts China in NATO speech

9:08 pm, May 07, 2014

BRUSSELS (Jiji Press)—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe criticized China’s military expansion and provocations in East Asia, calling them issues of concern for the international community.

“China’s foreign policy approach and its military developments have become issues of concern for the international community, including Japan,” Abe said.

Abe made the comments in a speech at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, the governing body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in Brussels.

China’s expansion of military expenditures “lacks transparency” and Southeast Asian countries are increasing their own defense expenditures in response, Abe said...

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