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Japan to expand fuel and ammo storage on islands near Taiwan: defense chief
Supplies on Nansei chain would support sustained deployment, Hamada tells NikkeiJapan will expand fuel and ammunition storage facilities on the Nansei Islands in the East China Sea, Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told Nikkei on Tuesday, as Tokyo seeks to better prepare for a Taiwan Strait crisis.
Japan now stores around 70% of its ammunition in Hokkaido, the country's northernmost main island -- more than 2,000 km away from a potential conflict around Taiwan.
The Defense Ministry sees increasing capacity on the remote Nansei chain, which stretches southwest from Kyushu to near Taiwan, as contributing to greater deterrence.
"To protect Japan, it's important for us to have not only hardware such as aircraft and ships, but also enough ammunition for them," Hamada said.
"We will radically strengthen the defense capabilities we need, including our capacity for sustained and flexible deployment," he said.
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That's Ryukyu islands.
This would have been a non-story if the title was accurately updated to:
"Japan reinforces Ryukyu islands near Diaoyutai/Senkaku islands."
but instead, it's more sensationalist to use "Nansei islands" ... "near Taiwan".... which is sad sensationalism for Nikkei Asia, the slightly more respectable outlet.
The European inflation and the aftermath will be interesting. I suspect all the governments will fail and suffer a UK kind of disorder. Because of Brexit, the UK basically had a head start in recession. The UK has gone through 4 PMs in 6 six years, which is banana republic level of government. Surprisingly this has not culminated in mass disorder yet.
Tiananmen is often mischaracterized as a "Democracy" protest, when really it was a reaction towards the consequences of economic reforms. The inflation had risen over 10% in consecutive years, lifetime employment was being eroded due to modernization of production, and the social welfare system was being restructured (continuing to this day). The democracy part only came into play as one possible idea to alleviate the growing pains of reform. Of course China chose an alternative strategy.
The Soviet Union ended up going with the political liberalization route which gave ended up giving Europe Putin to deal with, so really the west has no one to blame but themselves. (You wanted this, you got it)
Tiananmen is often mischaracterized as a "Democracy" protest, when really it was a reaction towards the consequences of economic reforms. The inflation had risen over 10% in consecutive years, lifetime employment was being eroded due to modernization of production, and the social welfare system was being restructured (continuing to this day). The democracy part only came into play as one possible idea to alleviate the growing pains of reform. Of course China chose an alternative strategy.
The Soviet Union ended up going with the political liberalization route which gave ended up giving Europe Putin to deal with, so really the west has no one to blame but themselves. (You wanted this, you got it)
They locked her wiki page.
I expected this coming. Because the general rule is worse things go in the USA and UK more China is collapsing on their media. We had a lot of collapse of China articles this month. So:
The fact that Comrade Gordon Chang still gets invited to contribute on Fox News, CNN, CNBC as "China Expert" despite his failed +20-year old prediction of China collapse, is the US media needs a yellow-face, yellow-sounding to affirm their biases and prejudices against China while protecting themselves from racism or sinophobia accusations. It's a veritable industry of yellow-face Hanjians reporting China collapse in the media to serve these echo-chamber, self-soothing lullaby so these anti-China haters can sleep at night (and somehow US hegemony is not fundamentally threatened). Such a huge audience for China collapse bullshit, regardless of the fact on the ground. I think I should get into the game too, call me a "China Expert" and I can tell you how fast China will collapse too.
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Here's a good video to offset that and this guy is a PHd. I posted this already in the China economy thread. Sorry comrade Gordon Chang, you lose....AGAIN.