The tensions all over the Asian Pacific rim are on boil, and are about to begin to boil over the brim. Whether they are on the Korean peninsula, or between China and Japan, the battle lines are being drawn up, just they are being drawn up in the middle east and in Latin America.
On the one side you have those that will stand with the old guard, the West, and the those on the other hand that are aligning themselves with the new guard, the east, specifically China.
This evening, there is going to be a crucial vote in the senate regarding whether or not the U.S. will begin to combat the issue of China's currency manipulation. The vote is sure to pass, and if so, then this would bring the tensions from boil, to boiling over.
It's like Bill Clinton said one time, "It's not a good idea to make your banker mad." China would not only retaliate economically,but militarilly this would begin the march towards their support of Iran and N. Korea during W.W.3.
Let us not forget that China also has unresolved issues with Japan for all of the atrocities the Japanese inflicted upon the Chinese during WW2. This debt has not gone unforgotten.
North and South Korea are on the brink of war, a top Russian diplomat has warned, calling for both countries to exercise restraint and sit down for talks.
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 12:04AM BST 24 Sep 2010 >R>
AFP
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8020972/North-and-South-Korea-on-the-brink-of-war-Russian-diplomat-warns.html
On the one side you have those that will stand with the old guard, the West, and the those on the other hand that are aligning themselves with the new guard, the east, specifically China.
This evening, there is going to be a crucial vote in the senate regarding whether or not the U.S. will begin to combat the issue of China's currency manipulation. The vote is sure to pass, and if so, then this would bring the tensions from boil, to boiling over.
It's like Bill Clinton said one time, "It's not a good idea to make your banker mad." China would not only retaliate economically,
Let us not forget that China also has unresolved issues with Japan for all of the atrocities the Japanese inflicted upon the Chinese during WW2. This debt has not gone unforgotten.
North and South Korea are on the brink of war, a top Russian diplomat has warned, calling for both countries to exercise restraint and sit down for talks.
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 12:04AM BST 24 Sep 2010 >
AFP
In Moscow's bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin said tensions between the two countries were running at their highest and most dangerous level in a decade.
"Tensions on the Korean Peninsula could not be any higher. The only next step is a conflict," he told foreign policy experts at a round table on the subject in Moscow.
Tensions bubbled over in March after Washington and Seoul concluded that a North Korean submarine had sunk a South Korean naval vessel in the Yellow Sea. Mr Borodavkin called for the investigation into exactly who was responsible for the sinking of the vessel, the Cheonan, to be urgently closed in order to remove an obvious source of tension.
Describing the standoff between the two Koreas as a "hangover from the Cold War," Mr Bor class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">odavki n said Russia, which is one of the six countries involved in talks with North Korea over its nuclear programme, was doing all it could to try to prevent an outbreak of hostilities.
But he said responsibility for keeping peace in the volatile region was shared equally between North and South Korea. He condemned North Korea's nuclear testing programme but also criticised the way the United States and South Korea had increased their military manoeuvres in the wake of the sinking of the Cheonan.
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"Tensions on the Korean Peninsula could not be any higher. The only next step is a conflict," he told foreign policy experts at a round table on the subject in Moscow.
Tensions bubbled over in March after Washington and Seoul concluded that a North Korean submarine had sunk a South Korean naval vessel in the Yellow Sea. Mr Borodavkin called for the investigation into exactly who was responsible for the sinking of the vessel, the Cheonan, to be urgently closed in order to remove an obvious source of tension.
Describing the standoff between the two Koreas as a "hangover from the Cold War," Mr Bor
But he said responsibility for keeping peace in the volatile region was shared equally between North and South Korea. He condemned North Korea's nuclear testing programme but also criticised the way the United States and South Korea had increased their military manoeuvres in the wake of the sinking of the Cheonan.
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Tensions between China, Japan escalate
Amid a dispute over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain, Beijing reportedly cuts off exports of so-called rare earth elements to Japan, which are used in high-tech products including hybrid vehicles.
China and North Korea deepen ties during Kim Jong Il visit
By John M. Glionna and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
September 23, 2010 Continue rest of story at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-china-japan-spat-20100923,0,4905884.story?track=rss
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