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Senior Chinese General Orders Military To Prepare For War With Japan.

  • 19-09-2012 12:16pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    Just when you thought things were bad in the middle east, now you have something like this. China is no longer the backward country it was during WW2, it would be certainly something to be concerned about. I also see that Russia has more or less written off its long debt with North Korea giving the state a chance to breath, another country that dose not see eye to eye with Japan.

    China’s most powerful military leader, in an unusual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent.

    Protests against the Japanese government’s purchase of three privately held islands in the Senkakus chain led to mass street protests, the burning of Japanese flags, and attacks on Japanese businesses and cars in several cities. Some carried signs that read “Kill all Japanese,” and “Fight to the Death” over disputed islands. One sign urged China to threaten a nuclear strike against Japan.'

    Breakdown of militaries of each country.

    Japan:

    PERSONNEL

    Total Population: 126,475,664 [2011]
    Available Manpower: 53,608,446 [2011]
    Fit for Service: 43,930,753 [2011]
    Of Military Age: 1,214,618 [2011]
    Active Military: 239,430 [2011]
    Active Reserve: 57,899 [2011]
    LAND ARMY

    Total Land Weapons: 5,220
    Tanks: 902 [2011]
    APCs / IFVs: 731 [2011]
    Towed Artillery: 480 [2011]
    SPGs: 317 [2011]
    MLRSs: 90 [2011]
    Mortars: 700 [2011]
    AT Weapons: 2,000 [2011]
    AA Weapons: 528 [2011]
    Logistical Vehicles: 5,000
    AIR POWER

    Total Aircraft: 1,953 [2011]
    Helicopters: 690 [2011]
    Serviceable Airports: 176 [2011]



    China:

    PERSONNEL

    Total Population: 1,336,718,015 [2011]
    Available Manpower: 749,610,775 [2011]
    Fit for Service: 618,588,627 [2011]
    Of Military Age: 19,538,534 [2011]
    Active Military: 2,285,000 [2011]
    Active Reserve: 800,000 [2011]
    (http://globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Japan)

    LAND ARMY

    Total Land Weapons: 47,575
    Tanks: 7,500 [2012]
    APCs / IFVs: 7,700 [2012]
    Towed Artillery: 25,000 [2012]
    SPGs: 2,475 [2011]
    MLRSs: 2,600 [2011]
    Mortars: 1,050 [2011]
    AT Weapons: 1,250 [2011]
    AA Weapons: 750 [2011]
    Logistical Vehicles: 55,850
    AIR POWER

    Total Aircraft: 5,176 [2012]
    Helicopters: 632 [2012]
    Serviceable Airports: 502 [2011]

    http://beforeitsnews.com/china/2012/09/senior-chinese-general-orders-military-to-prepare-for-war-with-japan-2443470.html


Comments

  • #2
    OS119
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    people will come on the thread and say that neither Japan, nor China, will risk their economies over some uninhabited islands that both Governments would probably rather just went away.

    these will be the same people who will refuse to answer the question 'what country was Germanys largest trading partner on the 21st of june 1941?'.

    is their likely to be a war? no, it would be devastating to both countries economies: however, politicians cannot always contain the 'mob' that they are often responsible for stoking up to divert attention from whaever domestic difficulty they have just caused. China is new to this game, while no democracy, its leaders now have to pay far more attention to what the 'man in the street' says, and the man in the street appears to be increasiningly nationalistic and less interested in finding an acceptable, if disagreeable solution to the issue of the Islands.

    i think that China is probably the danger rather than Japan: it has a cohort of brand-new political leaders who need, in some way, to prove themselves, it has an understandable antipathy towards Japan in particular, and it has a not insignificant view of its own place in the world. mix that together with a public/media that's burning Japanese flags in the street, and a Chinese military broadcasting its move into expeditionary warfare in both an Air and Naval context, and you have a situation where someone may decide that 'the time has come'...


  • #3
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I always get by news fix from websites with visitor counters.


  • #4
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    It's a way for both side's new leaders to prove their toughness (albeit on a matter that's totally meaningless). They should just wrestle like Henry VIII.
    these will be the same people who will refuse to answer the question 'what country was Germanys largest trading partner on the 21st of june 1941?'.
    The Soviet Union? Do I get a point? But Nazi Germany was accustomed to declaring war on friendly states for no real reason; China and Japan are not.


  • #5
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    China is no longer the backward country it was during WW2
    What the hell have you been reading? When was China backward during WWII??


  • #6
    lucky john
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 838 ✭✭✭lucky john


    Hopefully japan has better tacticians than they did 70 years ago. Honour and history run deep in both countries so hopefully they will read Run to da hills post above and decide not stick a pin in a "sleeping giant" this time round.


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  • #7
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    Another day, another Run_to_da_hills thread with no source bar dubious "alternative news" ones. The last one from the OP's source was a hoax, this one probably is as well.

    As usual for such threads, closed until the OP can provide a link to a reputable source - although anyone is free to set up a thread on the real observed tensions between the two countries.

    moderately,
    Scofflaw


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