An Electronic Notebook of Political, Economic, and Cultural Thought from an Alternative Thinker in Daniel Shays Country, Western Massachusetts
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
On the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and the Declaration of an Air Defense Zone by the Peoples' Republic
Really!!! An uninhabited archipelago of islands really deserves as much attention as to summon the Vice President of the United States to Japan to cool off tensions in East Asia!! A few pieces of rock in the East China Sea demands a flight of U.S. B-52 bombers! We have no business whatsoever stepping into the middle of a dispute over territorial claims between the PRC, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan, and Japan, given its record of imperial aggression in East Asia, has no business making territorial claims on a few pieces of rock off Taiwan's coast. This issue is too absurd for words, and Biden has no reason to be over in Japan other to instruct Shinzo Abe to stop pissing Beijing off. The world has enjoyed a prolonged heritage of peace from Japan that the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party seems bound to disrupt unless they are firmly put in their place. There is no reason for Japan to covet a few isolated rocks off Taiwan's coast in an era in which, on the one hand, it enjoys the protection of the world's dominant military power and, on the other hand, the preeminent economic and regional military powerhouse has asserted its own claim on the same isolated rocks. Japan doesn't deserve to be bolstered - they need to be put in their place and told to be quiet!!
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