Chitchat Why did LKY warn the Japs about China in 1973 but didn't warn his son?

Kanasai! 1973 I am not even conceived yet! So psychic but never teach his son properly.

https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973TOKYO05833_b.html

VISIT TO JAPAN OF SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER
Date:1973 May 11, 07:11 (Friday)

1. SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER LEE KUAN YEW PAID UNOFFICIAL VISIT
TO JAPAN FROM MAY 7 TO 14. VISIT WAS PROMPTED BY NAGASAKI
LAUNCHING OF LARGE BULK CARRIER BELONGING TO SINGAPORE INTERESTS,
BUT LEE ( ACCOMPANIED BY WIFE AND FOUR AIDES) ALSO SPENT FIVE DAYS
IN TOKYO WHERE HE HAD DINNER MEETING WITH PRIMIN TANAKA. AND FONMIN
OHIRA, CALLED ON FINMIN AICHI AND DEFENSE AGENCY DIRGEN MASUHARA,
AND MET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY.

2. EMBASSY ARRANGED VERY INFORMAL MEETING,/ WHICH LASTED ALMOST
TWICE AS LONG AS SCHEDULED FORTY- FIVE MINIUTES, BETWEEN LEE AND
AMBASSADOR AT LATTER' S RESIDENCE. MOST NOTEWORTHY POINT TO
EMERGE FROM STIMULATING, WIDE- RANGING CONVERSATION WAS THAT LEE SAID HE
HAD TOLD PRIMIN TANAKA THAT JAPAN MUST DO MORE TO PROTECT ITS FAR- FLUNG
SEALANES ESPECIALLY TO MIDDLE EAST ( TO WHICH TANAKA DID NOT
RESPOND BUT LOOKED QTE PENSIVE UNQTE). LEE SUGGESTED US AND
JAPAN MIGHT FORM JOINT NAVAL TASK FORCE, AS ALTERNATIVE TO
UNILATERAL JAPANESE ACTIONS WHICH WOULD ALARM SOUTHEAST ASIAN
NATIONS. LEE ALSO EXPRESSED VIEW THAT OVER NEXT 10 TO 15 YEARS
PRC WILL BE PREOCCUPIED WITH DOMESTIC CONCERNS BUT THEREAFTER
IT MAY WELL WISH TO EXERT GREATER INFLUENCE AND CONTROL OVER
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.
CONFIDENTIAL

Let's warmly welcome the SCS inauguration of 出雲號 IZUMO !

44 years later: Tokyo sheds pacifist stance in South China Sea



Japan will deploy its largest warship, the Izumo, through the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean in May and put its sister ship, Kaga, into service last week in what analysts say amounts to a show of force against Beijing's militarisation of a waterway through which US$5 trillion (S$6.98 trillion) passes every year. The moves also signal a shift in Tokyo's pacificist stance.

China, which claims almost the entire South China Sea, is "wrapping up" its construction of naval, air, radar and defence facilities on three of its artificial islands, a report said Monday.

This means China can deploy military assets to the waterway "at any time", and its air bases there "will allow military aircraft to operate over nearly the entire South China Sea", the US-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies said, citing satellite images.

Japan has no claims in the South China Sea, but sees it in its interests to work with strategic allies in freedom of navigation operations to maintain open seas. However, it is embroiled in a separate dispute with Beijing in the East China Sea over the Senkakus or Diaoyus.

Tokyo has not commented on the Izumo deployment officially. But its three-month passage is expected to take it to ports like the Philippines and Singapore before it reaches the Indian Ocean for the annual joint Malabar Exercise with the US and India.

The Izumo helicopter destroyer is an anti-submarine warfare machine that can carry at least 14 helicopters, though its main role is surveillance and disaster relief missions. Ditto the Kaga, launched last week, which is armed with short-range self-defence systems, but can also carry 14 helicopters.

At the launch, Vice-Minister of Defence Takayuki Kobayashi said: "China is attempting to make changes in the South China Sea with bases and through acts that exert pressure is altering the status quo, raising security concerns among the international community."

Indeed, defence expert Tosh Minohara of Kobe University said: "Japan is gradually shedding its previous security identity and taking baby steps into dispensing with its pacifist status" that has encumbered military expansion since its defeat in World War II.

The moves "do not necessarily mean Japan is becoming war-like, but rather, a more rational and pragmatic power," he said. "We should not forget the fact that this is very much Japan's reaction to what China is doing."

Dr Minohara noted that beyond the South China Sea, China has likewise "upped its intensity of incursions not only into Japanese waters, but also into Japanese airspace" in the East China Sea, where Tokyo administers the Senkaku Islands.

Dr Alessio Patalano from the department of war studies at King's College London said Japan's presence in the South China Sea is not new given its capacity building activities, but the deployment of its largest warship marks a shift in naval diplomacy. "If continued, it will send a positive signal to both strategic partners including the Australia and US of its willingness to take on a greater role, while also serving as a show of force to China."

Dr Masashi Nishihara, who heads the Research Institute for Peace and Security in Tokyo, said: "Japan is sending the ship through the South China Sea - which is not the same as sending the ship there for the purposes of military drills."

TO WHICH TANAKA DID NOT
RESPOND BUT LOOKED QTE PENSIVE UNQTE

he must be thinking what is this delusional chink talking about he must be high on crack.

why do we even have a SAF anyway when we are friends with our greatest nemesis,the country most likely to invade and massacre us?

China is playing a role of big brother protecting Asians States from America and still British Empire drug trade in China and Far East.

Freedom had a price to pay. China is not going to be a poor nation anymore humilated by angmoh again.

kryonlight said:

Kanasai! 1973 I am not even conceived yet! So psychic but never teach his son properly.


VISIT TO JAPAN OF SINGAPORE PRIME MINISTER
Date:1973 May 11, 07:11 (Friday)

1. SINGAPORE P

2. EMBASSY ARRANGED VERY INFORMAL MEETING,/ WHICH LASTED ALMOST
TWICE AS LONG AS SCHEDULED FORTY- FIVE MINIUTES, BETWEEN LEE AND
AMBASSADOR AT LATTER' S RESIDENCE. MOST NOTEWORTHY POINT TO
EMERGE FROM STIMULATING, WIDE- RANGING CONVERSATION WAS THAT LEE SAID HE
HAD TOLD PRIMIN TANAKA THAT JAPAN MUST DO MORE TO PROTECT ITS FAR- FLUNG
SEALANES ESPECIALLY TO MIDDLE EAST ( TO WHICH TANAKA DID NOT
RESPOND BUT LOOKED QTE PENSIVE UNQTE). LEE SUGGESTED US AND
JAPAN MIGHT FORM JOINT NAVAL TASK FORCE, AS ALTERNATIVE TO
UNILATERAL JAPANESE ACTIONS WHICH WOULD ALARM SOUTHEAST ASIAN
NATIONS. LEE ALSO EXPRESSED VIEW THAT OVER NEXT 10 TO 15 YEARS
PRC WILL BE PREOCCUPIED WITH DOMESTIC CONCERNS BUT THEREAFTER
IT MAY WELL WISH TO EXERT GREATER INFLUENCE AND CONTROL OVER
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS.
CONFIDENTIAL

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did scum speak ja-penis ?

Singapore garbarment shd stop fighting China for others there is no good outcome from this.

virus said:

Singapore garbarment shd stop fighting China for others there is no good outcome from this.

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Lee hsien loong's Pap sees no value for sinkapore to be another Asian country that's aligned to the regional superpower

He thinks there are more benefits being the far flung outpost for angmor powers