Chinese Aggression and ElectroMagneticPulse

China is a world power, an emerging economy and a massively populated nation. It is a major player in the world political theatre, and has remained active on all fronts in securing it's territory, in most cases by staking a claim to adjacent territory disputed by its neighbors, and not just some neighbors. All of it's neighbors have disputes with China, here's a short list from one page of Google querie:




* An unarmed US oceanographic vessel is harassed. Nothing new, any ships on the South China Sea who come close to the Chinese coastline are picked up and approached in a paranoid policy of interruption. They use private ships and boats, or trawlers, and they stop in the path of suspected vessels, forcing them to stop, and at times ramming them. In this story, the Chinese boat attempted to damage or intercept a towed sensor array.

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-20/world/us.china/navy1chinese-ships-vessel-civilian-crew?s=PM:WORLD





China has ongoing disputs with all of it's southeast Asia neighbors, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, Tibet and Vietnam. Vietnam lays claim to several islands close to its recognized peninsula, an archipelago string of islands including the populated islands of Paracel and Spratly. Long disputed, these islands are at the center of development, and Chinese governmental manuvering which undermines it's outward, "good neighbor" posture.

http://www.paracelspratly.com/home/index.php?option=comcontent&task=view&id=45&Itemid=83




While it's common for Chinese registered ships to fish in the disputed waters off the Senkaku Island chain, it's not common for them to ram your boat-until now. Recent aggressive behavior from Chinese trawlers give the multi-national fishing fleet in the area the feeling the Chinese think their you-know-what doesn't stink. When Japanese Coast Guard vessels responded to a collision at sea, Chinese Trawler Captain, Zhan Qixiong was taken into custody for appearently ramming Japanese fishing vessels and then colliding with responding Japanese Coast Guard vessels. Days later, local residents in the fishing villages can't figure out why he was released and the charges dropped.

http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/09/26/okinawan-fishermen-fear-chinese-aggression/




Dateline India: Febuary 25, 2010. India is preparing for war. Along a long contested region in the northeast sector of the country, India has sent military hardware, earthmoving equipment and troops to bolster a remote region adjacent to Tibet, a large rugged area which China, claiming Tibetan territory also claims. But India won't leave without a fight like the Tibetan monks. They have sent Su-30 jet fighters, road building crews, bridgebuilding equipment, as well as anti-missile batteries, two mountain infantry divisions, and nuke-tipped ICBM systems, all pointed east, at China, instead of west, to Pakistan.

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/articles/20100225.aspx







Did a Russian military satellite detect a Chinese EMP in the Pacific on November 10th of this year, or not? One thing's sure, nobody's saying anything now, although it was reportedly reported that the Russian Space Agency did release a report detailing a series of missile launches in the Eastern Pacific region, coincidentally at the exact same time as a missile launch was witnessed along the California coast and a disabled commercial cruise liner was towed back to it's Southern California port. The most unsettling aspect to this story is that at the time it was photograpically reported to have happened, the one agency with it's ears to the world's missile arsenals...didn't know anything about it! And as of this writing, NORAD has never even partially acknowledged a missile launch from a Chinese submarine off the Mexican coast, and, 11 hours later, a Tomahawk missile launch from an American boomer off the Cali coast...



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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/09/national/main7036716.shtml



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