1/21/2013 Station Identification and Notice Board (3) Updated,New China/Japan Island Dispute Info

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MONDAY JANUARY 21, 2013

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THE USS GUARDIAN IS STILL AGROUND ON A PHILIPPINE MARITIME SANCTUARY CORAL REEF.

The mine counter measures ship accidentally grounded Friday morning. We have been following the story of this U.S. Navy Warship since Friday. We have not seen any mention in the American general media. So once again we are doing the best we can to follow this story closely for you. There has also been some coverage on gCaptain, and internet maritime news service that you can find a link to in our NEWS Section and some very sparse news releases from official Navy sources. If you did not follow this story with us over the week end you may read all of the coverage by simply scrolling down . There postings below the station identification and notice boards of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as well as a Monday morning. There are also updates on the Notice boards themselves . As of our last news in the predawn hours the ship was still grounded on the coral, with some hull breaches but with flooding under control. This is a story likely to continue for some time. One apparent factor in the accident is that the well known marine sanctuary is dipicted on certain navigation charts with an eight mile error in location. As professional mariners we are aware that many pacific charts from all sources have errors, some still rely on geophysical data gathered  by Captain James Cook in the 1700s. To read more all about just scroll down.
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NEWS FLASH: CALLING AMERICA'S POSITION RELATIVE TO JAPAN A BETRAYAL OF CLAIMED U.S. NEUTRALITY ON CHINA SEA ISLAND DISPUTES CHINA SENDS THREE MORE SHIPS INTO DISPUTED AREA.

http://017.richfast.net/  Link to full story, lead paragraph below

BEIJING — Veiled U.S. warnings to Beijing not to challenge Japan’s control of disputed islands encouraged Tokyo’s “dangerously right-leaning” government and “betrayed” Washington’s vow of neutrality, Chinese state media said Saturday.

The comments came as Japan’s coastguard said three Chinese government ships had entered Japanese territorial waters around the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japanese and the Diaoyu in Chinese.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said the area around the islands in the East China Sea was under Japan’s control and therefore protected under a U.S. security treaty with Tokyo.

Clinton was speaking at a joint news conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington, and did not mention Beijing directly.

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Japan may fire warning shots at Chinese jets in island dispute

Japanese and Chinese jets came into close contact near disputed islands in the East China Sea.

TOKYO — Japan says it may fire warning shots and take other measures to keep foreign aircraft from violating its airspace in the latest verbal blast between Tokyo and Beijing that raises concerns that a dispute over hotly contested islands could spin out of control.

Japanese officials made the comments after Chinese fighters tailed its warplanes near the islands recently. The incident is believed to be the first scrambling of Chinese fighters since the tensions began to rise last spring.

According to Chinese media, a pair of J-10 fighters was scrambled after Japanese F-15s began tailing a Chinese surveillance plane near the disputed islands in the East China Sea. China has complained the surveillance flight did not violate Japanese airspace, and the F-15s were harassing it.

It was the first time the Chinese media has reported fighters being mobilized to respond to Japanese air force activity in the area and comes amid what Japan says is a rapid intensification of Chinese air force activity around the islands, where Japanese and Chinese coast guard ships have squared off for months. Link to full story below:

http://news.msn.com/world/japan-may-fire-warning-shots-at-chinese-jets-in-island-dispute

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China-Japan island dispute: Beijing orders helicopter units to be combat ready

Amid rising tensions with Japan over disputed islands, Chinese army in a bid to scale up battle readiness has ordered its armed helicopters to shift focus from logistic missions and gear up for combat operations.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) planned to change the training strategy of its army aviation unit as more and more armed helicopters joined the service, PLA Daily which is the official newspaper of the military quoted an army aviation unit as saying.

The focus of army aviation unit will be shifted from logistics missions to combat ones, from building the capacity for non-war military actions to core military actions, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the daily as saying.

The unit will work on major missions such as long-distance tasks, large scale offshore operations, attack coordination with other units and large scale airborne operations, it said, adding that the unit will also aim to improve its operation capability based on IT technologies.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/China-Japan-island-dispute-Beijing-orders-helicopter-units-to-be-combat-ready/articleshow/18100283.cms