Japan has stepped up defence readiness amid a Chinese military build-up and aggressive patrols near disputed islands [Reuters]
Japan has stepped up defence readiness amid a Chinese military build-up and aggressive patrols near disputed islands [Reuters]
Japan to deploy troops near East China Sea islands
Nearly 500 ground troops will be stationed on a southern island as tension mounts with China over disputed territory.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/11/japan-deploy-troops-east-china-sea-islands-151126070200251.html
Japan is planning to deploy about 500 ground troops on a southern island as territorial disputes with China continue to escalate.
Vice Minister of Defence Kenji Wakamiya was in Ishigaki on Thursday to explain to Mayor Yoshitaka Nakayama a plan to deploy the soldiers on the island beginning in 2019.
Ishigaki has jurisdiction over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku islands, which China also claims and calls the Diaoyu islands.
Japan has stepped up defence readiness with the Chinese military build-up and its aggressive patrols near the disputed islands.
Beijing insists it has sovereign rights to nearly all of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, a strategic waterway through which about one-third of all the world’s traded oil passes.
The disputed waters – also claimed in part or in whole by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei – have also become the stage for a tussle for regional dominance between Beijing and Washington, the world’s two largest economic and military powers.
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Al Jazeera に載る日本の軍用機や軍艦は、なぜかいつもボロボロで、なんとなくダサい。民間機や民間船がピカピカなのとは大違い。いったいどこの誰が、こんな写真を選んで載せるのだろう。
私は日本側の情報発信の弱さが原因なのではないかと勝手に想像しているが、実際のところはわからない。