Two-Faced Red Chinese Aggression

Recently, the bandit government in Peking took a serious step toward provoking a war by announcing an "expanded air zone" in the East China Sea which covers the Japanese territory of the Senkaku Islands. The communist government has threatened any aircraft that does not identify itself and follow their instructions in this area with hostile action. Both the United States and Japan have objected to this blatantly aggressive action over territory which even China claims is in dispute, and as far as Japan and America are concerned there is no dispute as the Senkakus are clearly Japanese and there is no doubt at all that they are under Japanese control so no matter which side one takes, the bandits in Peking are behaving stupidly. The communists, of course, are feigning outrage over the objections from Tokyo and Washington and here they display their two-faced hypocrisy. As we recently discussed, not long ago the Prime Minister of Japan announced his intention to take more firm action against future Chinese incursions of Japanese air space. The Chinese, at that time, howled that any such action would be considered an act of war. So, they are saying that it would be an act of war for Japan to fire on Chinese aircraft invading Japanese airspace and now they have responded by vastly increasing the air space they claim to even cover Japanese territory.

This is all, of course, simply for the benefit of the local Chinese populace so that if the communist bandits provoke any hostilities with Japan, the bandits will be able to tell the Chinese people that Japan violated their territory which, of course, it is not. However, since there is nothing close to a free press in China, the regular people only know what their government tells them and the communists would claim to own the moon if they thought it would benefit them. The American Defense Secretary called the action by China a "destabilizing attempt" but also asserted that this will change nothing as far as American deployments or military action in the area. In other words, the U.S. will carry on as before and if the Red Chinese choose to do something stupid, it will be their own fault and no one else's. It is encouraging to see the United States standing firm with Japan in the face of Red Chinese aggression. The Republic of China on Taiwan and South Korea have also voiced their own objections to this overreaching by the bandits in Peking, however, whether or not they will be able to set aside their own bigotry against Japan in the face of a common threat is another story, particularly as it concerns South Korea whose president still refuses to even speak to the Prime Minister. That is most unfortunate as the non-communist countries of East Asia should be standing firmly together in the face of this naked Chinese communist aggression.