pana Loc: are we there yet?

Why doesn't the news muppets see this as a bigger news issue than Justin Beiber doing 136 MPH this morning.
This economically cuts out the petrol dollar in oil buys and after China pings a Japanese ship yesterday twice with a missile would mean that any defense of Japan would mean war with China and Russia.
"Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed that Moscow and and Beijing will continue to be close allies and support each other on major international issues.

In his latest meeting with Putin, Xi said the two sides agreed to “unswervingly support each other on issues concerning their core interests and turn political advantages in their relations into cooperation advantages”.

Xi was speaking to Russian broadcaster Rossiya TV this weekend.

Xi had attended Friday’s opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Moscow was also his first foreign destination after taking over as China’s President in March last year.

“I am very satisfied with the achievements in the development of China-Russia relations,” Xi said adding the relationship has the “highest level of mutual trust and the greatest regional and global influence ever”.

The Sochi trip has marked a “good start” for the advancement of bilateral ties in 2014, added the president. This was the first time a Chinese head of state attended an opening ceremony of a major sports event held outside China.

“The cities of Beijing and Zhangjiakou are bidding to host the 2022 Winter Games, so we are here to learn from the Russian people,” said Xi.

During the interview Xi also asserted stronger coordination between the two countries is helping “safeguard international justice, stability and peace”.

Russia and China, both permanent members of the UNSC, coordinated successfully to prevent a US-led military strike in Syria. Both have vetoed three UN resolutions that sought to condemn the Syrian government for the civil war in the country.

Russia has also mediated between Iran and world powers to reach a nuclear agreement last year with key support from Beijing.

In 2013, Xi and Putin have overseen enormous Sino-Russian joint ventures including a massive oil deal with state-run Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company striking agreements to almost triple oil supplies to China in coming years from the around 300,000 barrels per day (15 million tonnes a year) it ships there currently.
China-Russia ties have greatest global influence ever-Xi | The BRICS Post

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The MSM will not report this because it shows further the inadequacies of Obama in foreign relations. Putin has outmaneuvered Obama and his Sec of State at every opportunity. He is a failure both domestically and internationally so they report on Justin Bieber instead.

Constitutional libertarian Loc: St Croix National Scenic River Way

Just like Obama could have been our 1st great African American president bringing us closer together as one nation. We have also missed a great opportunity to have the Russian people as our next great allies against our common enemy of radical Islam.

I do not blame Obama for this, but his ineptness in foreign relations have certainly pushed Russia and China closer. We have one last chance to rescue ourselves from Chinese global domination. We must fix our repeatedly damaged relationship with the world's largest democracy India.

Atleast the Japanese understand the threat and aren't waiting for us to save them.

pana Loc: are we there yet?

cold iron Loc: White House

There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president once. We did it twice.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

The one thing that empowers Russia and China to become allies is neither country has a problem with collateral damage that could destroy an opposing country. Human rights issues are not discussed when planning to occupy a targeted land. The U.S. needs to keep this in mind. Japan seems to be the target of choice for China at the moment. However, they are getting more and more focused on the U.S.. Maybe the commander and chief we have in office wasn't born with the balls to carry out a real threat in return to these countries that keep poking sticks at us, but hopefully in 2016 we will elect a president that will do whatever it takes to secure the boarders and eliminate the threats that this great nation is facing today. The only country that understands how aggressive we as a nation can become under the right leadership is Japan. To them, "Sleeping Giant" has great meaning, maybe it's time that others share the same view.

pana Loc: are we there yet?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9849620/China-frigate-locked-radar-on-Japan-navy.html

The problem is that the Diaoyu Islands clearly belong to China and proof of it goes back to the Ming Dynasty and even further back to maps dated to the early 1300's.
http://diaoyuislands.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/diaoyu-islands-belong-to-china/

I do not believe since the US has the biggest military presence in Japan then anywhere else that the oil that has been discovered in this area has escaped the notice of the US.
"Established 1 July 1957, U.S. Forces, Japan, with its U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps elements, consists of approximately 47,000 military personnel, 52,000 dependents, 5,500 DOD civilian employees and 23,500 Japanese workers. U.S. Forces are stationed in Japan pursuant to the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security of 1960."
Japan pays us to keep our troops there since after the war they eliminated their military and put into their constitution that they would never have another military again.
"Total acreage of U.S. bases is approximately 78,000 acres. The annual cost of stationing U.S. Forces in Japan in 1995 was approximately $7.6B. Of this amount, the Government of Japan paid $4.25B of the cost."
I don't believe that Japan is provoking China without provocation from the US.
We are wearing out our welcome there due to our undisciplined men stationed there that are never made accountable for their actions against the Japanese women.
http://usmilitarycrimesinjapan.webs.com/usmilitarycrimes.htm
" Combat Zone Japan

The U.S.military has been raping and murdering women and children in Japan and Okinawa and here below are just a few records of these crimes -

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

THE TRUTH MUST BE KNOWN WORLD-WIDE

Sep.4,1955 A six-year-old girl, living in Ishikawa City was found murdered in Kadena area. A US sergeant was arrested and sentenced to death in December. Rycom Compensation Examining Committee informed the bereaved family of the payment of $2000 compensation, one eighth of the amount claimed. Later, the sentence was reduced to 45 years' heavy labor servitude



Oct.28,1959 A 23-year-old woman employee of a club for foreigners was strangled to death in Center Street of Koza City. Two days later, a 24-year-old US serviceman was arrested, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment the next year.



Jul.3,1963 A 22-year-old woman employee of a diner, was strangled to death. A 19-year-old US Marine confessed his crime and was sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment by court-martial.



Jan.24,1965 A 28-year-old woman working at a bar for foreigners was murdered at her house in Kin Village. A US serviceman was examined as a suspect by US Army detective organization.



Jul.22,1966 A 34-year-old woman was found murdered in Shinkaichi, Kin Town. US Army arrested a 19-year-old military deserter as a suspect.



Jan.24,1967 A 32-year-old woman employee was strangled to death in her diner in Shinkaichi, Kin Village. A 19-year-old US Marine was arrested by the US Army and was sentenced to 35 years' heavy labor servitude by court-martial.



Jan.30,1968 A 35-five-year-old maid was killed in a barrack of US Army. A joint investigation meeting of military and civilian police was held on April 1.



Jun.20,1968 A 23-year-old woman employee of diner was raped and heavily injured on the beach of Ginoza Village by a MP on duty.



May 28,1970 A 21-year-old woman employee of the army was assaulted on the way to work by a US serviceman in the army post of Yafuso, Urasoe Village. The accused was judged 'not guilty' by court-martial due to lack of evidence .



May 30,1970 A 16-year-old high school girl was assaulted and was stabbed with a knife to serious injury in Gushikawa Village. A 22-year-old US serviceman was arrested by Koza Police and US Army. The criminal was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Villagers criticized it saying, "the punishment is too light".



Dec.7,1970 On the retrial of a 21-year-old US serviceman, who had been on trial by court-martial under the suspicion of hitting a 51-year-old woman and running away in Itoman Town since September of the previous year, was judged not guilty. US Army decided to pay $17,000 compensation



April 23,1971 A 23-year-old woman employee of a diner was struck with a stone to death by a US serviceman in Ohyama, Ginowan City. The suspect was arrested by U.S.Army but was judged 'not guilty' due to lack of evidence.



May 1,1971 A 42-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her home of Kin. US-Japan Joint investigation was pursued on the assumption that the crime was committed by US servicemen.



Aug.4,1972 A 37-year-old woman employee was strangled to death by an 18-year-old US serviceman at a bar in Ojana, Ginowan City. In the following year, the serviceman was convicted to be imprisoned for life.



Dec.1,1972 A 19-year-old US serviceman strangled a 22-year-old woman in Koza City. The serviceman was sentenced to be imprisoned for life at the court of first instance.



1973 -- A 12 year old girl living close to Kadena Airforce base was intercepted by an American clad in civilian attire who sexually molested and stalked her for several days. He reported having regular sexual activities with his own daughter as well as with other young girls. On their last day, he paid her $5 USD for her 'services'.



Mar.18 ,1973 A 43-year-old woman employee of a diner was strangled to death at her apartment in Koza City. The city police office and the US Army jointly concluded that the murder was conducted by a US serviceman.



Apr.12,1973 A 73-year-old woman picking up bullets at Blue Beach, Kin Village was run over by a tank and killed. The US Army notified the Prefectural Office of exercising the primary jurisdiction asserting that the incident occurred in line of duty.



Oct.23 ,1974 A 52-year-old woman manager of a Cafe at Henoko, Nago City was, while sleeping at her cafe, hit to death with a cement block by a US serviceman intending robbery.



Apr.19,1975 Two junior high school girls were raped by a 21-year old US serviceman in Kin Village. This incident became an object of public concern, and the accused was handed over to Japan side after he was indicted. He was later sentenced to six years imprisonment



Aug.2,1982 A 33-year-old woman employee of a diner at a house building site in Henoko, Nago City, was strangled to death by a 22-year-old US serviceman



Oct.29,1985 Ishikawa Police Office arrested two US servicemen in the act of raping a woman after abducting her by a car on her way home.



Jul.17,1993 A 25-year-old US serviceman under confinement within the base as a suspected case of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman escaped back to United States by a commercial aircraft. He was arrested in US and was sent back to Okinawa.



May 10,1995 A 24-year-old insurance saleswoman was hit on the face with a hammer by a 20-year-old US serviceman in front of her apartment house. She died.



Sep.4,1995 Three US servicemen gang raped a 12-year-old schoolgirl. (Almost 11 years after the crime that recharged opposition to U.S. bases here, a former Marine Kendrick Ledet,convicted in the abduction and rape of an Okinawa schoolgirl is believed to have killed a Georgia woman before committing suicide in her apartment. Ledet was the victim of self-inflicted knife cuts to veins in his arms. The victim's body was nearby. She apparently had been sexually assaulted, then killed by strangulation and a blow to the head. Ledet and the victim were former co-workers, according to the police report)



June 29, 2001, 20-year-old Okinawan woman raped on her car in a parking lot April, 2002. An Australian woman was raped in her car in a parking lot outside the Yokosuka U.S. military base. The rapist Bloke Deans was found guilty at the Tokyo District Court but fled Japan and his whereabouts are still unknown till this day. (This case is now, after six years - at Government levels and awaiting details)





Nov, 2002. A Major 41 years old, a nineteen-year veteran of the Marine Corps. was accused of attempted rape. The Major was eventually released by the Japanese government and he returned to the United States, where we heard nothing of him again. . . Nothing that is until he was arrested in Laurel, Maryland in connection with the October 2 , 2005 kidnapping of an 18-year-old student in West Virginia. He was being held in the attempted abduction of high school student. aug/2009 Update





May 25, 2003, a 21 year-old Camp Hansen Marine, left a Kin Village bar with a local 19 year-old woman, had sex with her in a nearby alley, and hit her in the face breaking her nose



Jan, 2006. A 22 U.S.sailor beat a 56-year-old woman to death near a US navy base in Yokosuka, near Tokyo and robbed her of $130.



Oct,2007. A 19 year old teenager was gang raped by four U.S.military servicemen. (This case was closed, but has been re-opened, Feb,2008. Awaiting details of case)





Feb, 2008. A U.S. Marine was arrested Monday on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa Prefecture, sparking stern protest from the central and local governments as well as the public against the United States and the U.S. military. The suspect, 38-year-old Tyrone Hadnott, a staff sergeant at the Camp Courtney base in Okinawa, to prosecutors. Hadnott is suspected of raping the third-year junior high school student inside a car parked on a street in the town of Chatan around 10:30 p.m. Sunday. He has admitted to having forced her down and kissed her, but denied raping her, according to police. (This case was dropped as the the girl received so much victim bashing)

pana Loc: are we there yet?

This is unacceptable behavior with no accountability most of the time.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

I was stationed on Okinawa in 1974-1976. Being an M.P. was one of my duties. I remember many of the atrocities committed by our troops, I also remember (just not in detail) the atrocities committed against them. If I had the clearance to acquire documentation of some of the investigative results, I would gladly post them. Unfortunately, they will always stay under lock and key necessitating using memories of service members that where present at the time. What happens in foreign countries is not always as cut and dry as it seems. Both service members and civilians need to be accountable for their actions. Of course the murders, and rapes that where proven legitimate are inexcusable.

pana Loc: are we there yet?

Thank you for your service. I am not against our fine men and women in the service.