Wednesday, December 4, 2013

(OT) Team Obama Changes Course, Appears to Accept China Air Defense Zone, Says Foreign Policy Magazine


Japan looks so solidly under the bus now, even as the ruling coalition of Liberal Democratic Party and Komei Party (plus Your Party and probably Japan Restoration Party) pushes the passage of the State Secrecy Protection Law in the Upper House of the Japanese national Diet, trying to do the bidding - supposedly - of the US Obama administration.

From Foreign Policy (12/4/2013; part, emphasis is mine):

Team Obama Changes Course, Appears to Accept China Air Defense Zone

Top Obama administration and Pentagon officials signaled a willingness to temporarily accept China's new, controversial air defense identification zone on Wednesday. Those officials expressed disapproval for the way in which the Asian power has flexed its muscles, and cautioned China not to implement the zone. But they also carved out wiggle room in which the United States and China ultimately could find common ground on the issue, indicating that they may be willing to live with the zone for now -- as long as China backs off its demand that all aircraft traveling through it check in first.

"It wasn't the declaration of the ADIZ that actually was destabilizing," said Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, America's highest-ranking military officer. "It was their assertion that they would cause all aircraft entering the ADIZ to report regardless of whether they were intending to enter into the sovereign airspace of China. And that is destabilizing."

That's a change from just a few days ago, when U.S. Vice President Joe Biden demanded that China take back its declaration of the zone. And it's another demonstration that China's recent decisions have forced the United States to tread carefully. On Wednesday, Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for more than five hours, according to a senior administration official. In brief public remarks midway through the marathon session, Biden didn't mention the air defense zone at all.

...In meetings in Beijing on Wednesday, Biden laid out the U.S. position in detail, reiterating that the United States does not recognize the new zone and has deep concerns about it, a senior administration official said. Biden told Xi that the United States wants China to take steps to lower tensions in the region, avoid enforcement actions that could lead to crisis, and to establish communication with Japan and other countries in the region to avoid altercations, the administration official added. Privately, Biden did not call for the air defense identification zone it to be rolled back -- something administration officials had done Monday while Biden was visiting Japan. Instead, the vice president asked the Chinese leader to be careful about how his country operated the zone going forward.

"He indicated to Xi that we are looking to China to take steps as we move forward to lower tensions, to avoid enforcement actions that could lead to crisis, and to establish channels of communication with Japan, but also with their other neighbors to avoid the risk of mistake, miscalculation, accident or escalation," the official told reporters in Beijing.

(Full article at the link)


"As long as you don't actually implement and enforce it, your ADIZ is OK with us in the US (wink wink)" is essentially what VP Biden and General Dempsey are saying.

Much like President Obama issuing executive orders to let businesses break the law (Obamacare) for one year without penalty.

Meanwhile, after the all-night session in the Upper House that covered pending legislations including the State Security Protection Law, the Special Committee for National Security of the Upper House is in session right now. There is no TV station covering the proceeding, and the livecast of the Upper House is sketchy at best due to a large number of access requests from net citizens. So here's Yahoo Japan, if you're interested and understand Japanese, who has started the netcast:



Live streaming video by Ustream

The choreography is that the Committee vote is expected in the afternoon, and then the bill goes to the full Upper House floor either in the evening for vote or tomorrow, by extending the Diet session by one day. Watching the questions and answers in the Committee, neither side - the Abe administration and the ruling coalition, or the opposition - doesn't seem to quite know what they are talking about.

Remember Boy Wonder, aka Mayor of Osaka City of comfort women fame? He's trying his best to get his name printed in the newspaper by making fuss about the law that he and his party are quite in favor of. Right now, Boy Wonder is saying he thinks the law is necessary, but he doesn't agree with the vote today.

Just like in the Lower House, his party will be happy as long as the bill is not voted on today.

It is all happening as the US has thrown Japan under the bus and Japan doesn't even know it.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dempsey here confirms my earlier plan for all interested parties to rotate their flights thru the zone constantly, identifying themselves Constantly to each other.
You know, kind of like a Dance of Retards?

"It wasn't the declaration of the ADIZ that actually was destabilizing," said Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, America's highest-ranking military officer. "It was their assertion that they would cause all aircraft entering the ADIZ to report regardless of whether they were intending to enter into the sovereign airspace of China."

"As long as you don't actually implement and enforce it, your ADIZ is OK with us in the US .." is essentially what VP Biden and General Dempsey are saying."
What they're actually saying, SKF, is that they have a certain kind of Retard Dance they want to do, and it requires the use of refueling tankers. Knowing the Chinese may require a few years to build up, they're asking the Chinese not to be too excitable in their interceptions 'til then.
Then they can all do Full Retard Dance.

A loya jirga, of sorts, of Arms Merchants. The Arms Elders.

Anonymous said...

This graphic via Reuters sheds light on ADIZ "violations", "airspace violations",
http://i.cbc.ca/1.2452753.1386285813!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/china-air-defence-zone.jpg

It also explains why netudiant never responded to promptings about Russian "violations" of Japanese "airspace" -- absurd, perhaps, to even mention it, netudiant?

"Today, nationalism is a powerful force in China as it seeks to emerge from what Communist Party propaganda calls "two centuries of humiliation." [China is now being offered invitations to join in a Dance of Retards which may not be in its best interests. Note the quietness on the subject by the Russians."]

fixed it for them

You did say the above, didn't you, Reuters?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-old-hatreds-behind-the-china-japan-provocation-war-1.2452679

Anonymous said...

Zerohedge/Tyler Durden,

this jpg would have been perfect if the Ejector had been clutching Lockheed's Diplomatic Pouch via Biden in his hand.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/12/20131206_usjapan_0.jpg

arevamirpal::laprimavera said...

Thanks anon at 12:14PM. It would have been more perfect if the pilot seat were empty...

M. Simon said...

Gave you some link love:

∅bama Accepts China Air Defense Zone?

Anonymous said...

areva,

Empty, and by a landslide election.

Japan, ejecting from a drone.

Anonymous said...

Instead of entitling his article, "Oh, Just Another Day for America in Asia", Michael the Auslin described it as "The Day America Lost Asia". He also confirmed that it's all about the F-35 and the specialness of belligerence,

p2
"It also makes sense to force the issue before Japan and South Korea get advanced F-35 fighters, which would undoubtedly embolden them to reject Chinese demands."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/day-america-lost-asia-100411.html

It's all about Clutter, says Bradley the Perrett, sea-clutter,

"Chinese vessels sometimes collide with U.S. naval ships in China's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), trying to enforce a claimed right to exclude foreign military activity. But threatening behavior in the air can have tragic results .. "

Evidently inspired by mentionings of "hams", Bradley begins to tell us of "salamis", "subvert[ing] international airspace", and after acceding "Japan's refusal to face up to its atrocious pre-1945 behavior." he transitions to decrying China's " “us-and-them” mentality familiar in the West before World War I."

In other words, Bradley the Perrett is All Over the Place, proceeding to express accurate understanding of Russia & Germany's history from the same time period.

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_12_09_2013_p31-643357.xml&p=1

Bradley, as Perrett, it's ok to mention Globalisation, militaries as Globali-s templates, and pending arms sales.
Really. Those things are mentioned simultaneously in the quest for credibility and the finding out who & how the Diplomatic Pouch gets transferred.

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