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I think Senator John Kerry will make a great Sec. of State. Susan Rice can be Sec. of Treasury replacing Tim Geithner.
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I think Senator John Kerry will make a great Sec. of State. Susan Rice can be Sec. of Treasury replacing Tim Geithner.
AssassinsMace
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I don't know the legalities if a lawsuit is possible but it's an interesting dilemma for the New York Times. The New York Times will have to prove their sources yet they can't use how China is secretive as their excuse because that just means they made it up from no factual evidence.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
It will never fly. They will just claim they are protecting their sources and an American judge or jury will just eat it up.
Don't you know that the most important right in America is the right for anyone who claims to be a journalist to make sh!t up as they please?
Even if you enforced the most rudimentary burden of proof or evidence or even professionalism checks that is done as a matter of course in any real profession to journalism, something like 90% of articles would never get published and a similar percentage of self proclaimed journalists would be unemployable.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well this isn't any other sort of accusation. They don't need to reveal a source. They just have to show financial evidence because the reality is they could do this to anyone if they don't care about the evidence. Why just Wen? When I saw this story I saw it as the New York Times arrogant enough to think they can start a revolution in China by exposing corruption by a top Chinese official. Like who doesn't think any one of them uses their position for their own financial gain? It's not like there were ever any accusations of this sort before. What's different is they put a face to it.
ManilaBoy45
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Time to Start Clarifying Disputes in SCS
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The Nation
Publication Date : 26-11-2012
The Philippines is to be commended for its timely initiative of inviting China, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam for a meeting in Manila on the South China Sea disputes. China has reportedly turned down the invitation, but Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines will send their senior officials to attend.
Termsak Chalermpalanupap
The Nation
Publication Date : 26-11-2012
The Philippines is to be commended for its timely initiative of inviting China, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam for a meeting in Manila on the South China Sea disputes. China has reportedly turned down the invitation, but Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines will send their senior officials to attend.
ManilaBoy45
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Japan Is Flexing Its Military Muscle to Counter a Rising China
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: November 26, 2012
TOKYO — After years of watching its international influence eroded by a slow-motion economic decline, the pacifist nation of Japan is trying to raise its profile in a new way, offering military aid for the first time in decades and displaying its own armed forces in an effort to build regional alliances and shore up other countries’ defenses to counter a rising China.
Japanese officials say their strategy is not to begin a race for influence with China, but to build up ties with other nations that share worries about their imposing neighbor. They acknowledge that even building the capacity of other nations’ coast guards is a way of strengthening those countries’ ability to stand up to any Chinese threat.
Under the decade-old civilian aid program to build up regional coast guards, Japanese officials say they are in the final stages of what would be their biggest security-related aid package yet — to provide the Philippine Coast Guard with 10 cutters worth about $12 million each.
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: November 26, 2012
TOKYO — After years of watching its international influence eroded by a slow-motion economic decline, the pacifist nation of Japan is trying to raise its profile in a new way, offering military aid for the first time in decades and displaying its own armed forces in an effort to build regional alliances and shore up other countries’ defenses to counter a rising China.
Japanese officials say their strategy is not to begin a race for influence with China, but to build up ties with other nations that share worries about their imposing neighbor. They acknowledge that even building the capacity of other nations’ coast guards is a way of strengthening those countries’ ability to stand up to any Chinese threat.
Under the decade-old civilian aid program to build up regional coast guards, Japanese officials say they are in the final stages of what would be their biggest security-related aid package yet — to provide the Philippine Coast Guard with 10 cutters worth about $12 million each.
I don't think this is world news, it is rather an opinion piece. I can find plenty of similar article like that in favor of China, but I won't post it, because it is not news.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Totally symbollic and irrelevant. If they can take on China in whatever capacity, they would've already. Japan is only exercising influence now? How long have they been a power? Tells you how uncommitted they are to do anything independent and how dependent they are on the US when it came to foreign policy. I'm sure Japan is ready to take up the surplus all these other countries enjoy that they get from China. But then that's what they call cultural pollution in Japanese nationalism. So ugly that even the US has looked to South Korea as a better economic partner than Japan. Good luck to all the little countries around China that think Japan is going to pick up the economic slack China gave you.
It also tells you a lot that the said grand stand against China the media reported was going to happen while Obama was in Cambodia didn't happen. Supposedly the countries in territorial conflict with China were disappointed Obama didn't announce it. If Japan is now deciding to expand influence is because of the setback that the US isn't going to do all the dirty work for them. China shouldn't worry about an arms race because the only scenario where China loses is if China starts the war. The fact is whoever starts the war is going to lose. Everyone else can emotionally buy all the weapons they want because if you don't use them it's ends up a big waste of money. Who's going to pay the bill? These little countries undeveloped and corrupt? Or the US and Japan? If it were that easy, they would've done it already.
Economic intimidation doesn't work. They thought China wouldn't mess with trade with Japan because it would disrupt things domestically. Japan would try manipulate China by saying it would scare off international corporations from doing business in China. And what happens is everyone else is booming because Chinese are buying their products and not Japan's. Trade between China and Japan has gone off kilter against Japan in that last couple months and China looks like it's recovering during that same time.
Funny how after all these tensions, these very countries are still discussing free trade. If they were trying to divide everyone else from China, wouldn't economics be first? The fact is all these countries except China could've had a free trade agreement long before. Why haven't they if it were so great? Why didn't Japan have one with ASEAN? Why wasn't there one before lead by the US to which Obama now wants with the Trans Pacific Partnership? Like I've said before it's all about China. The US didn't have one because like the protests against free trade think it's everyone else feeding off the US because everyone else is dependent on exports. Japan didn't start one with ASEAN and other Asian countries because of the same reasons being the largest economy there. Free trade is all about China. Even the US sees themselves as the exporter to China. And what happened in Cambodia where all these forces were supposed to take a stand together against China? Obama didn't make the big announcement standing against China in these territorial disputes and discussions of free trade pacts between China/Japan/South Korea and ASEAN+China/Japan/South Korea (now including India) without the US eclipsed the Trans Pacific Partnership.
It also tells you a lot that the said grand stand against China the media reported was going to happen while Obama was in Cambodia didn't happen. Supposedly the countries in territorial conflict with China were disappointed Obama didn't announce it. If Japan is now deciding to expand influence is because of the setback that the US isn't going to do all the dirty work for them. China shouldn't worry about an arms race because the only scenario where China loses is if China starts the war. The fact is whoever starts the war is going to lose. Everyone else can emotionally buy all the weapons they want because if you don't use them it's ends up a big waste of money. Who's going to pay the bill? These little countries undeveloped and corrupt? Or the US and Japan? If it were that easy, they would've done it already.
Economic intimidation doesn't work. They thought China wouldn't mess with trade with Japan because it would disrupt things domestically. Japan would try manipulate China by saying it would scare off international corporations from doing business in China. And what happens is everyone else is booming because Chinese are buying their products and not Japan's. Trade between China and Japan has gone off kilter against Japan in that last couple months and China looks like it's recovering during that same time.
Funny how after all these tensions, these very countries are still discussing free trade. If they were trying to divide everyone else from China, wouldn't economics be first? The fact is all these countries except China could've had a free trade agreement long before. Why haven't they if it were so great? Why didn't Japan have one with ASEAN? Why wasn't there one before lead by the US to which Obama now wants with the Trans Pacific Partnership? Like I've said before it's all about China. The US didn't have one because like the protests against free trade think it's everyone else feeding off the US because everyone else is dependent on exports. Japan didn't start one with ASEAN and other Asian countries because of the same reasons being the largest economy there. Free trade is all about China. Even the US sees themselves as the exporter to China. And what happened in Cambodia where all these forces were supposed to take a stand together against China? Obama didn't make the big announcement standing against China in these territorial disputes and discussions of free trade pacts between China/Japan/South Korea and ASEAN+China/Japan/South Korea (now including India) without the US eclipsed the Trans Pacific Partnership.
joshuatree
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How is this news when it falls under "Views" of that particular media site? Looks like someone's got an agenda here.
Exactly.. that is not news..it is an op-ed..Opinion editorial. Let's stick to the real news.
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