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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
NEWS FLASH! Fishing Fleet/ Government Escort Vessels on Edge of Japan's territorial waters around the Senkaku (Japan's term) / Dinyou (Chinese term) Islands to be a permanent harassment tactic. Chinese Government also discussing economic sanctions against Japan. See our analysis below and our expanded post of back ground articles.
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THE STAND OFF BETWEEN THE DRAGON AND THE RISING SUN OFF OF THE SENKA/DINOYU ISLANDS
China to keep ships, fishing boats near Senkakus: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209200070
14 Chinese vessels spotted near Senkakus, but no fishing ship armada: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209190059
At last we have found real time, accurate journalistic reporting on the stand off and related background developments in the form of Japan's English Language daily THE ASAHI SHIMBUN. Their coverage this morning tends to confirm our analysis that the apparent on rush of a claimed 1,000 fishing boats and government vessel escorts out of China headed to the disputed Senkaku / Dinoyu was a feint, but a signal that harassment tactics will continue at sea indefinitely. Japan has to take each such feint seriously because China has earned its "street creds" in these disputes by its mass murder of Vietnamese navy sailors in 1988, when their campaign to turn the China sea into a Chinese lake opened with rounds of machine gun fire. At the time Vietnam was no friend of the U.S. and the conflict didn't draw much U.S. attention being a Communist on Communist conflict. U.S. concern has risen as the Dragon has turned its attention on territory of the Philippines and Japan, nations that we have formal defense treaties with.
American Admiralty Books is not a news service. We really aren't staffed to follow a story of this type. But we found it shocking that the ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and FOX have all barely paid any attention at all to this story. Nor have we found much on it in English language U.S., Canadian, or UK news papers. We have contacts and some access to Japanese and Chinese media,and various commercial vessel tracking systems. Far too much of our understanding of the situation up until this morning's issue of the ASAHI SHIMBUN came out was derived from our own sources. We don't have the staff to stay on the situation 24 hours. But we had vowed to continue monitoring it as best we could until there was reliable news coverage of the events.
We believe that the English language version of ASAHI SHIMBUN is a reliable source so we will now drop our independent effort and start linking you to this professional journalistic source. As we find other sources of both on scene reporting and background material we will link those in as well in our NEWS SERVICE page HEADLINE SERVICE FEATURE. Be sure to check today's post on back ground material through out the day. We will be a while getting everything up. We realize that our main source at the moment is Japanese and they are a party at interest. But unlike China, Japan has a free press and is not a thug state, so we are fairly sure they are at least reporting the basic facts accurately, and they are closer to the scene and sources than we are. They are a professional news service, we are not. But still we wonder, how did the American media completely miss this moment when China deliberately made the world to appear to be on the brink of war?
We believe that the English language version of ASAHI SHIMBUN is a reliable source so we will now drop our independent effort and start linking you to this professional journalistic source. As we find other sources of both on scene reporting and background material we will link those in as well in our NEWS SERVICE page HEADLINE SERVICE FEATURE. Be sure to check today's post on back ground material through out the day. We will be a while getting everything up. We realize that our main source at the moment is Japanese and they are a party at interest. But unlike China, Japan has a free press and is not a thug state, so we are fairly sure they are at least reporting the basic facts accurately, and they are closer to the scene and sources than we are. They are a professional news service, we are not. But still we wonder, how did the American media completely miss this moment when China deliberately made the world to appear to be on the brink of war?
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM TODAY IS PERFORMED BY MS JORDIN SPARKS THE LINK FOR THE RECORDED PERFORMANCE IS BELOW THE FLAG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7e8keJNMzg&playnext=1&list=PLF48827B54CE10A52&feature=results_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7e8keJNMzg&playnext=1&list=PLF48827B54CE10A52&feature=results_video
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