Shameful Display
China has some 13 million unregistered Children.
A side effect of the infamous One Child Policy. These children are unable to get an education, and technically, do not exist as far as Chinese bureaucracy is concerned.
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Are superfast trains speeding down the tracks?
China rejects international pleas to release five feminists from jail:
The women have been held for nearly three weeks on charges of disturbing public order. They had planned to distribute stickers calling for action against sexual harassment. Beijing police told Associated Press that they too had no information on the cases.
In the UK, a Foreign Office spokesperson expressed deep concern about the detentions and said: “We are particularly concerned by reports that they have been denied due legal process, and at least one, Wu Rongrong, denied access to adequate medical care.
“We urge China to release all those detained for exercising their rights to freedom of expression, in line with China’s constitution and international human rights commitments.”
Wu has hepatitis B and spent the month before her arrest in hospital, but was reportedly denied medication for more than a week prior to her transfer to the detention centre’s medical facility. Her former lawyer Wang Fei said she was experiencing pain in the liver area and had blood in her phlegm.
Before her transfer, she told Wang that she had been forced to sleep on a concrete floor and denied regular medication by authorities who said her condition did not require treatment.
The US-based group Human Rights in China said another activist, Wang Man, was also in the medical centre after developing a heart condition following hours of interrogation.
While the past two years have seen a marked increase in detentions and convictions of activists and dissidents, there is particular shock at the decision to criminally detain the five. Several of them had a record of highlighting issues facing women in imaginative ways which seemed to be within the limits of official tolerance.
Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “What they were planning to do was hand out leaflets and put out stickers on public transport to raise awareness of sexual harassment.
“They were not planning to mobilise hundreds or thousands of people, go to government offices [to protest] or even form a new NGO or political party or politically challenge the party or the government. They were essentially planning to carry out public education on a subject that does get addressed in the official media to some extent.
“It shows how allergic the government is to any kind of activity, outreach or encouragement of advocacy by any independent voices.”
If charged and convicted, Wu, Wang and the other three detainees – Wei Tingting, Zheng Churan, also known as “Datu” or “Big Rabbit”, and Li Tingting, better known as Li Maizi – could face up to three years in prison. Four others detained at the same time were released shortly afterwards.
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Naval Air: China and Japan Prep For A Death Race
China has a history of installing small numbers of troops on islets or reefs (via structures built on stilts) whose ownership China disputes. China then supplies these troops at great expense via boat from the mainland and threatens to strike back if its “garrisons” are attacked. Thus the Japanese watch the Senkakus carefully, in case China tries to send in “occupation forces.” The U.S. has made it clear that its MV-22s in Okinawa would be available to move Japanese troops to the Senkakus in the event of an emergency.
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Wouldn't that be more appropriate for the Asian Maritime Disputes thread?
I wonder how long will it be till tensions deescalate?
One question about the JSDF, that which is related to a story I'm writing: If Fictional Country X attacks its Japanese Embassy, would Japan be allowed to go to war with said fictional country or not?
Now, now, I ask this out of realism, due to what Article 9 of their Constitution has to say on the matter.
well, in that particular case, they pretty much are already at war. War is the sort of thing that can get decided for you.
Unfortunately, the JDSF doesn't have much in the way of force projection, so unless It's a joined effort, there's not much they can do.
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Yeah a deliberate attack by a national government on an embassy is an act of war. Now there's diplomatic complications if the attack was carried out either accidentally or by a group that aren't technically the government but otherwise it's an open and shut deceleration of war.
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Unless there's a permanent law that allowed SDF forces to be deployed, they pretty much need to work with whoever's gonna lead the military response like what they do in PK Os.
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US THAAD to deploy to South Korea in crisis sitatuon
The US Army has allocated its Continental-US (CONUS) Based THAAD to deploy to South Korea on emergency situations, a South Korean military source confirmed Sunday.
THAAD systems are able to deploy from their base at Ft. Bliss, Texas, US within hours, using C-17 Globemaster III military transport planes.
The first to deploy overseas was Alpha battery, that demonstrated its rapid deployment capability in 2013, as it deployed to Guan in response to a possible North Korean BM-25 Musudan Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles capability to target the island
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South Korea also opposes the permanent deployment of US AN/TPY-2, an early missile warning radar system that detects missiles up to 2,000 kilometers away, which would include China’s military facilities. “Our military has our own missile warning system, the Green Pine, which has a range of 600 km, so we don’t need AN/TPY-2,” a source within the South Korean government said.
Um, THAAD's radar IS the AN/TYP-2 or "Tippy 2".
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RE: Japan getting their embassies attacked: And they don't have JSDF units assigned to said embassies why?
edited 29th May '15 5:15:47 PM by HallowHawk
I'm going to guess that they have some sort of security on site, I don't think there is such a thing as an unguarded embassy.
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I know embassies have to be guarded, it's just that, if the US Marines guard American embassies, how come other countries don't use their equivalent to the US Marines, provided they do have?
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The US uses Marines out of a sense of tradition. They're not typically heavily armed; it's more of an honor posting. Most host countries take responsibility for guarding their diplomatic guests.
Or to flip the perspective a bit, how comfortable do you think Washington would be if the Russian embassy housed a platoon of VDVs as guards?
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
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Most embassies tend to have limited guards though, normally it's the local police who provide security plus a couple of security officers inside.
Now you get compound levels of stuff with military detachments in the more dangerous parts of the world occasionally, but I think that's largely a US thing.
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The US does have a nasty history of protesters storming their embassies, often with the host government's connivance. Iran 1979 is the most obvious one, but don't forget Pakistan 1979, or the near-run thing that was Libya 1979.
The Wiki article doesn't go into detail about that last, but it was the one where local initiative pretty much saved the lives of the diplomatic crew, who destroyed their sensitive documents, prepared an escape route, and boobytrapped the place with CS powder and motor oil on the stairways. When the mob broke in, the embassy personnel slipped out without problems. (Gaddafi, being Gaddafi, decided to try a "we can do this too!" to Iran and paraded "captured" documents—that proved to be public-domain diplomatic instructions.)
That's not even counting the numerous embassies hit by truck bombs. Given that history, it's no surprise that the US likes to fortify its at-risk embassies, but that's very much an exception to the general rule.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.
A procrastination in of itself
Yeah people like fucking with US embassies, but you'll note than even in those instances it was groups who were technically not under the control of the government. Allowing a violent mob to attack an embassy is one thing, actually attacking an embassy with government forces is a whole over. It breaks the rules of diplomacy hard and those rules are fucking sacred.
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I think that happened in Kuwait with Saddam's Forcesnote . You know how that ended...
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I know that for Canada, Canadian MPs do guard them.
Like peeps said, not all countries have military personnel guarding their embassies. They most likely use civilian security.
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Or those of the country where that Embassy is based.
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Thanks for all of that, but I apologize for going off-topic.
New question: Kuril Islands dispute aside, what do the Russians supply the JSDF with anyways?
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They really don't - the entire original purpose of the JSDF in the first place was to give Japan its own military capability to resist the Soviet Union and ease the pressure off of U.S Pacific Command should the Cold War go hot in Asia. This can be readily seen in the SDF's prevalent specialization and doctrinal emphasis on anti-submarine warfare, as the envisioned threats were the Soviet Pacific Fleet's submarines based from Vladivostok.
I know that. Now, who on Earth wrote that Russia limitedly supplies the JSDF in Wikipedia anyways?
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Probably some vandal who had that fantasy in mind.
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It is a parody account, but one that's so brilliantly spot-on even Newsweek was (briefly) taken in, among many others.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.