Serious Japan wants ASEAN nations to become its collaborators (汉奸走狗) again

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[FONT=&amp]Japan pledges support for Southeast Asia security to counter coercive China
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Reuters
June 4, 2016
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[FONT=&amp]Japan's Minister of Defence Gen Nakatani speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 4, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su

[/FONT][FONT=&amp]SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japan will help Southeast Asian nations build their security capabilities to deal with unilateral, dangerous and coercive actions in the South China Sea, Japan's defense minister said on Saturday, in pointed remarks directed at Beijing.

"In the South China Sea we have been witnessing large-scale and rapid land reclamation, building of outposts and utilization of them for military purposes," Japanese Minister of Defence Gen Nakatani said during a speech at a regional security conference in Singapore on Saturday, without mentioning China directly. "No countries can be an outsider of this issue," he added.

Tokyo is worried that Chinese control of a waterway through which some $5 trillion of global trade passes a year would threaten Japan's national security and take Beijing one step closer to extending its influence into the East China Sea and Western Pacific.

China claims most of the South China Sea, a resource-rich region scattered with hundreds of reefs and small islands, and says it is entitled to build "defensive facilities" on its territory.

To help the Philippines and other Southeast Asian nations deal with China's expansion, Japan is helping them improve surveillance capabilities, conducting joint training exercises and cooperating in developing new equipment, Nakatani said.

"I think it is important to improve regional countries' capabilities by...combining joint training, capacity building assistance and defense equipment and technology cooperation," Nakatani said at the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) gathering.

In May, Japan announced its first ever direct overseas military aid with a provisional agreement to lease five TC-90 King Air planes to the Philippines to be used as patrol planes. Manila also wants used Japanese Lockheed Martin P3-C patrol planes to track Chinese submarines near its waters.

Japan, emerging from a decades-long period of pacifism, is seeking closer military ties with Vietnam, Indonesia and other nations surrounding the South China Sea.

Nakatani also described China's recent air interception of a U.S. military reconnaissance plane as "extremely dangerous," and reiterated Japan's support for Washington's challenges to China's territorial claims in the South China Sea by sending naval vessels close to reclaimed islands being built by Beijing.

The U.S. last month said two Chinese J-11 fighter jets flew within 50 feet (15 meters) of the U.S. EP-3 aircraft east of Hainan island.

Nakatani called on all South China Sea claimants to submit to what is expected to be landmark legal ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague where the Philippines is challenging Beijing's claim to territory stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia.

"Every judgment or decision made by related courts must be fully observed by all claimants in accordance with relevant international law," the Japanese minister said.

China has argued the court does not have jurisdiction in the dispute and says it will not abide by any ruling.


(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Masayuki Kitano; Editing by Lincoln Feast)[/FONT]

 

[syed putra]

blame this on china aggression under nazi Xi jinping. before Xi, there were no problems and everybody was getting along just fine and dandy.

 

[Rogue Trader]

malayu, 你开始学中文了吗？

 

[xpo2015]

Jialat communication breakdown? Both sides got totally different opinions?

‘Stop pointing fingers at China’

The Chinese foreign ministry on Saturday urged the United States and Japan to stop pointing fingers at China on the South China Sea, Xinhua reported.

“Countries from outside should honor their commitments and not make irresponsible remarks on issues involving territorial sovereignty,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said in Beijing in response to remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his Japanese counterpart Gen Nakatani at a security summit in Singapore.

“We have noted relevant remarks. They were mostly repeating their old tunes, which have no fact in them and are full of groundless accusations against China’s legitimate construction activities on relevant islands and reefs.” Hua said.

She added that they blamed China for the regional security issue when China is actually the victim as they sowed discord between China and other regional countries.

“China is firmly opposed to that and the Chinese delegation attending the meeting has made our position clear.” Hua stressed the following points:

First, China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and the adjacent waters, which is fully backed by historical and legal evidence. China has never acknowledged the so-called “status-quo” formed by other countries’ illegal occupation of Chinese territory, and is not going to do so.

Second, relevant construction has taken place on Chinese own territory. It went against no international law. It is the intention of some countries, who have deployed large amounts of advanced weapons and equipment to the Asia-Pacific region, that should cause alarm among regional countries.

Third, the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the Philippines is not meant to resolve disputes, but to negate China’s territorial right and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea. This arbitration case severely undermines the sanctity and integrity of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), abuses and violates international law. China has already made clear non-acceptance and non-participatory position on the arbitration case.

Fourth, speaking of rules-based order, China and ASEAN countries inked the DOC back in 2002. The DOC is regional rules, which shall be abided by all parties.