Apparently China thinks Okinawa belongs to them

[DiscoBerry]

I don't even know what to say.

China's top newspaper on Wednesday published a call for a review of Japan's sovereignty over the island of Okinawa -- home to major US bases -- with the Asian powers already embroiled in a territorial row.
The lengthy article in the People's Daily, China's most-circulated newspaper and the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist party, argued that the country may have rights to the Ryukyu chain, which includes Okinawa.
The island is home to major US air force and marine bases as well as 1.3 million people, who are considered more closely related to Japan in ethnic and linguistic terms than to China.
The authors of the article, two scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, considered China's top state-run think-tank, said the Ryukyus were a "vassal state" of China before Japan annexed the islands in the late 1800s.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/china-okinawa-too-2013-5

[Art Vandelay]

Keep dreaming, China.

[ironbite]

If Japan annexed the island in the 1800s...IT'S STILL THEIR ISLAND YOU DIPS!

Ironbite-seriously we do not need more instability in that area.

[dpareja]

If Japan annexed the island in the 1800s...IT'S STILL THEIR ISLAND YOU DIPS!

Ironbite-seriously we do not need more instability in that area.

Didn't stop China from claiming the parts of Hong Kong that had been ceded to the UK permanently.

[Old Viking]

There may be some posturing and sputtering, but that's as far as it will go.  Try to find a reference to this two weeks from now.

[Yaezakura]

China, you really shouldn't piss off the people who make Gundams. Sure, Japan's military doesn't seem that large, but the moment you become a threat, 1 to 5 teenagers will find themselves in the possession of highly advanced war machines, against which all of your weaponry will be useless.

[Meshakhad]

Sometimes, I think China IS trying to take over the world, they've just adopted a "one step at a time" approach.

[Sixth Monarchist]

Bear in mind that it's only in the last 20 years or so that China has been a serious industrialised nation, so it's still very much in the "mine" phase*. Compare to the US, whose century or so as an industrial nation puts it in a mid-life crisis; and the UK, the oldest industrialised nation, which is waiting for the dementia to set in, having forgotten that it already has.


*Ha! Puns!

[Dynamic Dragon]

Sometimes, I think China IS trying to take over the world, they've just adopted a "one step at a time" approach.

Yeah, cause that worked out SO well for Hitler.

[dpareja]

Sometimes, I think China IS trying to take over the world, they've just adopted a "one step at a time" approach.

Yeah, cause that worked out SO well for Hitler.

Except that China seems to be taking things more slowly (and in smaller bites) and is in a rather different situation geographically speaking than Germany.

[Meshakhad]

Sometimes, I think China IS trying to take over the world, they've just adopted a "one step at a time" approach.

Yeah, cause that worked out SO well for Hitler.

Except that China seems to be taking things more slowly (and in smaller bites) and is in a rather different situation geographically speaking than Germany.

Yeah. The real goal of this sort of thing is to intimidate countries into doing whatever China says, no matter what is right.

In which case, the best response of Japan is to stick its fingers in its ears and go "lalalalalalalalala!"

[Lt. Fred]

I think China should probably get the Spratleys, maybe even the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Taiwan? That's a little more complex. China's probably going to have to grow up and learn to live with an independent Taiwan.

But you're not getting JAPAN.

[Cerim Treascair]

China, you really shouldn't piss off the people who make Gundams. Sure, Japan's military doesn't seem that large, but the moment you become a threat, 1 to 5 teenagers will find themselves in the possession of highly advanced war machines, against which all of your weaponry will be useless.

I'd help find fuel for Wufei's Dragon Fang myself.

And power sources for Deathscythe's cloaking so Heero wouldn't have to keep jacking Duo's shit.

[lord gibbon]

China, you really shouldn't piss off the people who make Gundams. Sure, Japan's military doesn't seem that large, but the moment you become a threat, 1 to 5 teenagers will find themselves in the possession of highly advanced war machines, against which all of your weaponry will be useless.

I'd help find fuel for Wufei's Dragon Fang myself.

And power sources for Deathscythe's cloaking so Heero wouldn't have to keep jacking Duo's shit.

And even if they did take over, a child of one of their leaders would then use mind-control eyes in an overelaborate scheme to destroy their empire, possible involving unlikely kicking physics.

[Saturn500]

Not to mention Japan's aircraft are capable of moving around without inertia, and some of them can only be hit at the cockpit, allowing them to avoid dense clusters of bullets.