8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#7440615 at 2019-12-06 18:37:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9516: Happy Saint Nicholas Day to Q, POTUS & All Anons Edition
Xi Jinping set to make first state visit to Japan in April
Mention of specific month comes with Abe security chief in Beijing
BEIJING – Senior Chinese and Japanese officials discussed Friday a visit to Japan by China's President Xi Jinping in April, marking the first mention of a specific month for the high-profile trip. Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan met with Shigeru Kitamura, Japan's new national security chief, in Beijing's Zhongnanhai government district.
"In principle, President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Japan next spring," said Wang. "If successfully realized, it will have great impact and significance for China-Japan relations."
Kitamura said: "We want to have full bilateral discussions on issues around an April visit to Japan by President Xi". Xi's trip would reciprocate a visit to China planned by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for later this month. On that occasion, Xi will hold talks with Abe, Wang confirmed.
Abe is expected to meet with Xi in Beijing on Dec. 23, according to a diplomatic source. Tentative plans also call for the two leaders to join South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a trilateral summit the following day in the city of Chengdu, the source said. This is the first visit to China by Kitamura since he became national security chief in September. "President Xi went out of his way to come and instruct me to meet with Mr. Kitamura by all means," said Wang.
Wang, considered to be Xi's right-hand man, attended Japanese Emperor Naruhito's enthronement in October. "Through the enthronement ceremony, I felt the great international influence Japan possesses," Wang told Kitamura on Friday. Kitamura later visited the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing to meet with Yang Jiechi, a member of the Politburo and China's top diplomat. "The momentum for friendship between Japan and China is becoming extremely powerful," said Kitamura.
The China visit by Kitamura "has gained attention since he is one of Abe's close aides and there is a potential he will develop deep bilateral connections," said a Chinese diplomatic source. The fact that Kitamura is a former senior official for Japan's National Police Agency also appears to have been noticed in Beijing. Shotaro Yachi, Kitamura's long-serving predecessor as Abe's national security chief, repaired bilateral relations with China following a 2012 flare-up in tensions over the Senkaku Islands, which China claims and calls the Diaoyu.
The two sides reached a breakthrough in 2014 by agreeing to a set of shared understandings, including the gradual resumption of political dialogue.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Xi-Jinping-set-to-make-first-state-visit-to-Japan-in-April
#7289028 at 2019-08-01 05:13:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9326: August is Hot! National Preparedness Month! Edition
Are US troops officially mercenaries now?
The administration of US President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking up to a fivefold increase in Japan's spending on American military forces deployed to the Asian country.
In talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and Shotaro Yachi, the head of the National Security Council secretariat, last week US National Security Adviser John Bolton raised the possibility of the fivefold increase in Japan's spending on US military, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported on Wednesday, quoting a US government source.
Trump has long complained that Japan was not contributing enough to its defense and that the American military was shouldering an unfair burden. He has repeatedly criticized a decades-old military treaty with Japan as "unfair."
Last month he told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the deal needs to be revised.
"I said, look, if someone attacks Japan, we go after them and we are in a battle, full force, in effect," Trump said. "If somebody should attack the United States, they don't have to do that. That's unfair."
The treaty, signed after Japan's surrender in World War II, commits the United States to defend Japan. Tokyo, in return, provides military bases that Washington uses to project power deep into Asia.
PressTV-Japan seeks record military spending amid US push
Japan's military wants record spending next year to buy US-made missile systems and warplanes.
Experts say a possible end to the treaty is widely seen as raising the risk of forcing Washington to withdraw a major portion of its military forces from Asia. It has stationed some 50,000 troops only in Japan.
An expert on US politics in Tokyo, Yasushi Watanabe, said Trump "has long believed America has been forced to shoulder excessive burdens because of some frameworks of international relations."
Under an agreement reached with the United States and Japan under Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, Tokyo will pay a total of $8.7 billion over the five-year period from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020.
[ Editor's Note: It used to be that the US said it posted its military overseas to ensure its security; and hence, the US taxpayer footed that bill. And then there were other reasons.
Having our military posted everywhere gave us leverage on the current governments and hosting militaries. It also created a cash cow annuity for those companies that specialized in servicing those bases.
Clinton Bastin, who lived in Atlanta near me, in our early briefings from him, explained how the whole toxic nuclear storage was a contrived scam to create its own annuity for certain companies.
When chemical engineers used to run the Atomic Energy Commission, they were endorsing the constant recycling of nuclear fuel to reduce the volume of waste.
When I asked him to paint me a picture of how much it was visually, his answer floored me. He hesitated a bit, and then said: "All the real dangerous nuclear waste we have created to date could be piled on a football field 5- or 6-feet high, the rest is all just fillers and stabilizers".
Constant recycling would have made the uranium mining industry unhappy, as demand would go way down. What did the companies do? They lobbied to have "academics" always be put in charge of the Department of Energy - political appointees who would cater to the desires of those that put them there.
Clinton was a bitter man, exiled from his professional community after a lifetime of top level service. VT has always welcomed such people with open arms, as they bring a wealth of knowledge with them, along with their impeccable credentials.
I shed a tear for him at his memorial service, not only for him and me, but because I knew people of his caliber were not being replaced...
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/07/31/are-us-troops-officially-mercenaries-now/