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Subject: Asia Pivot - Potential To Frustrate China's Southeastward Attention And Turn It Northwestward?
CJH    10/19/2014 11:32:42 AM
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Could a sincere and robust Asia Pivot possibly blunt China's eastward expansion efforts enough to make it switch to an active interest in gaining Russian territory China believes is its own?

And could that influence Russia to abandon its ambitions of westward hegemony rather than to consolidate them?

 
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WarNerd       10/20/2014 1:45:54 AM
What makes you think China lacks the wherewithal to do both at the same time?
 
The action in the Pacific is Naval.  Action in Siberia will be mostly ground forces.  The only thing in common is the use of the Air Force.
 
And action against Russia will trigger a nuclear responce.
 
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CJH       11/2/2014 11:16:46 AM


"What makes you think China lacks the wherewithal to do both at the same time?

 

The action in the Pacific is Naval.  Action in Siberia will be mostly ground forces.  The only thing in common is the use of the Air Force.

 

And action against Russia will trigger a nuclear responce."

Because China is playing the Russia card on the West right now or so it would appear. They would have to give that one up if we concentrated on their eastward expansion wouldn't they in stead of both on Russia and on them? We don't have to be subject to a diversion.

A big Chinese expansionist motivation is probably domestic politics as in so many countries so they have to expand somewhere.

The explicit current expansion is on the water but implicitly is one of hegemony in the region. Taiwan, the Philipines, Thailand, S. Korea, Japan, et al do comprise landmasses.

So are you saying China feels safe from nuclear response in its Southeast Asian region but is convinced of one over the Russian Far East and Siberia? Would Russia start a nuclear war with China (and risk being targeted opportunistically by other powers at the same time) were China to run the same tactics on Russian minority regions that Russia is running on Ukraine as with Crimea? Is there then no possibility of a nuclearized Japan, Taiwan or South Korea in the future?

 
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CJH       11/2/2014 11:18:33 AM
I was just asking a question.
 
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