Guess this song is outdated
I like chinese
I like chinese
They only come up to you knees
Yet they're always friendly and they're ready to to please
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Japanese officials said on Wednesday that the two nations would expand their military cooperation, including improving Japan’s missile strike capabilities and making the U.S. Marine unit in that country more flexible for potential combat.
The changes come as both nations perceive greater threatening behavior from China and North Korea, as well as Russia. Those three countries have decades-long partnerships that they have recently affirmed in various settings, despite many nations’ condemnation of Russia over its war in Ukraine.
In late December 2022, the Japanese government announced a new security policy, abandoning the fiction that the country’s military (euphemistically called the “Self Defense Forces”) would not possess offensive weaponry. Perhaps more significantly, the government also announced it would increase military spending dramatically, almost doubling the budget over the next five years. This has been reported on internationally (and domestically) as an inevitable reaction to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea and elsewhere. Such reporting, however, misses the broader political context.
And the Ukraine was Russian. Ho hum.
^^ Yes, they are getting Harpoon missiles- so that's a wine for the manufacturer, Boeing.
^^ China too. And Britain was part Italian, part Danish. But orrstralia was.... Australian.
It was Australian for thousands of years before the first savage whitey laid eyes on the place.
No, it wasn't. Unless the Abo's spoke Latin.
Keep in mind that the Aboriginals had over 200 diverse and rich languages. When they talked about “Australia”, they just referred to it as land or ground. Thus, they often call their land uthuru in the Midwestern portion of Australia; barna in the Murchison region; biik in the Woiwurrung language of Melbourne; and kurrek in the Wemba Wemba language of Victoria. These are mere generic terms that literally meant ground or land, and not really a specific term they unanimously used to refer to their continent or country.
However, the name Australia can be traced back to European navigators. Even before they came to Australia’s lands, Europeans knew that there is an unknown land in the Southern Hemisphere which they referred to as Terra Australis Incognita which is Latin for unknown southern land. In the 1800’s, Dutch navigators named the continent as New Holland. However, Matthew Flingers, a navigator, is known to prefer the term Terra Australis or Australia to refer to the continent.
What do Aboriginals Call Australia
Does it really matter what the savage white trespassers called the place, in whatever strange language. It was purely Australian with no foreign content until those white bastards arrived.
I wonder how many had experience playing warhammer on each side.
The Chinese were trading with Australians long before those white savages arrived.
The problems for China are. They have never fought a war outside of the mainland in the last few hundred years. The last one was probably against Japan which went spectacularly wrong.
Wars are fought in the end with boots on the ground. If the American fleet is involved the chinese troop losses could be horrendous before they even make landfall. Then there is sanctions even though they do take time to bite. An example the Chinese would do well to heed is Huawei smartphone sales. Virtually non existent outside of China. They have gone from about third after apple and samsung to barely any sales in the west. In Europe alone their market share has dropped from around 22% to no better than 1% due to U.S sanctions on software. Their market leading 5G which could've been the biggest in the world, is severely restricted in the west now. Much of it due to China's bellicose diplomacy.
U.S. Missile upgrades in Okinawa are now likely in the near future. Australia has welcomed upgrades to the U.S. bases in northern Australia. If the chinese bolster their land defences it will be useless the U.S. has no intention of invading China. It can blockade China quite well especially if other western countries are involved. Their raw materials will dry up almost immediately. Feeding 1 billion plus with sanctions will be a lot more challenging than trying to feed Russia's 144 million which is in steep decline since the war even without the Russians that have fled.
Meanwhile poor Sabang is still trying to work out his Nationality... "As an Aussie"... "We Brits"...No wondered he has become so confused. A guy pontificating on international politics who still can't work out if he's Arthur or Martha.
Sabangs job as a useful idiot is to disrupt threads like this by acting like a petulant child spewing its toys about. He has been doing it all day today over in the Ukraine threads. If he does not like the discourse, he has a hissy fit in a sad attempt to disrupt the thread.
As a vassal of NaGaStan, as is South Korea, they will remain subservient to the foreign government's full spectrum edicts.
It appears that NaGaStan can militarise Japan at will, if proven that a foreign power "caused" ....
Security Treaty between the United States and Japan
8 September 1951
Article I
"Japan grants, and the United States of America accepts, the right, upon the coming into force of the Treaty of Peace and of this Treaty, to dispose United States land, air and sea forces in and about Japan.
Such forces may be utilized to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security in the Far East and to the security of Japan against armed attack from without, including assistance given at the express request of the Japanese Government to put down largescale internal riots and disturbances in Japan, caused through instigation or intervention by an outside power or powers."
Security Treaty between the United States and Japan - Wikipedia
More "inspections" of the disputed southern islands held by Japan are certainly to be expected.
One portion of it may be useful to include in future peace deals, agreed in the future:
"including assistance given at the express request of the xxx Government to put down largescale internal riots and disturbances in xxx, caused through instigation or intervention by an outside power or powers."
Ukraine, Brazil Argentina ...
Last edited by OhOh; 13-01-2023 at 02:06 PM.
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
^ not your concern, they are part of the 16%
It is a bit embarrassing for the US to try and lecture China about its 'bellicose diplomacy".
...*cough*...nah, the only embarrassment on these threads is your continued posting...why not go to the lobby and get some popcorn while the adults speak?...
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