Chinese Warships Encroach on Japanese Territorial Waters

[HisMajestyBOB]

A Japo/China war would be cool. Getting tired of Hajjis and Cowboys and Arabs.

These days it'd be a tard fight. Japan has a decent navy, but it's army is worse than most European armies.
And China has no way of crossing to Japan.

[HVC]

Japan's defence minister yesterday called for efforts to establish the intentions of an extraordinarily large group of about 10 Chinese warships and submarines that passed through international waters near Okinawa last weekend.

Your own article refutes your thread title

They were quite close, and next time they'll get a bit closer, and so on.

OMG the chinese have discovered calculus!

[Faeelin]

"China's rapidly growing naval power?"  WTF?  China's surface fleet has been near 70 ships for a decade, and was twice that size twenty years ago.  Submarine force levels have been about the same: about 100 submarines 20 years ago, cut to about 55 modern models ten years ago, and maintained at that level since.  the force is expected to grow to 10 or 12 nukes over time, but those nukes will likely replace diesel boats in the OOB.

Methinks someone is crying wolf, here.

You have to understand, with Obama in office the Chinese are giving upon the economic hegemony that's clearly falling into their lap in favor of knee jerk military operations designed to worry Tim.

[grumbler]

They were quite close, and next time they'll get a bit closer, and so on.

OMG the chinese have discovered calculus!

[grumbler]

You have to understand, with Obama in office the Chinese are giving upon the economic hegemony that's clearly falling into their lap in favor of knee jerk military operations designed to worry Tim.

  You lost me.

[Eddie Teach]

Disconcerting.

[Razgovory]

Someday we'll look back on this and laugh.  Until then we'll just have to content ourselves at laughing now.  At Tim.

[Camerus]

Disquieting. 

[Josephus]

A Japo/China war would be cool. Getting tired of Hajjis and Cowboys and Arabs.

These days it'd be a tard fight. Japan has a decent navy, but it's army is worse than most European armies.
And China has no way of crossing to Japan.

It would be like a Paradox war game then.

[DGuller]

They were quite close, and next time they'll get a bit closer, and so on.

OMG the chinese have discovered calculus!

[DontSayBanana]

OMG the chinese have discovered calculus!

Law of diminishing returns: apply x amount of faith to Timmay's ability to post something relevant and coherent, receive y confirmation of said ability, where y<x.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Faeelin]

You have to understand, with Obama in office the Chinese are giving upon the economic hegemony that's clearly falling into their lap in favor of knee jerk military operations designed to worry Tim.

  You lost me.

Eh, I don't see "Chinese warships maneuver in international waters in a quasi-threatening manner" to be a huge headline. I also don't see this as part of a master plan for Chiense warships to move closer and cloesr to Japanese watrs.

[grumbler]

Eh, I don't see "Chinese warships maneuver in international waters in a quasi-threatening manner" to be a huge headline. I also don't see this as part of a master plan for Chiense warships to move closer and cloesr to Japanese watrs.

Agree.  It was the "upon" that threw me.  I now see that it was meant to be "giving up on" and that "in favor of knee jerk military operations designed to worry Tim" was the phrase describing what they were doing instead.

Just couldn't parse it the first time. 

[Jacob]

Perturbing.

[Siege]

You have to understand, with Obama in office the Chinese are giving upon the economic hegemony that's clearly falling into their lap in favor of knee jerk military operations designed to worry Tim.

  You lost me.

Eh, I don't see "Chinese warships maneuver in international waters in a quasi-threatening manner" to be a huge headline. I also don't see this as part of a master plan for Chiense warships to move closer and cloesr to Japanese watrs.

The Chiense fleet will cloesr the japanese watrs?

That sounds worrying.

Do they have hyperdrive tech or do they use stargates?