Japan is mapping out a strategic plan to defend a chain of its southern islands
in the East China Sea against possible Chinese aggression in disputed and remote islands of Japan. According to a Japanese Defense Agency official, he stated that Japan needs to monitor China's moves. “China has been expanding its scope of activities and recently entered Japanese waters with a nuclear submarine. Japan currently does not have troops stationed on most of those remote
islands, but a new plan calls for the positioning some 55,000 troops – as well as warplanes, destroyers and submarines – in the region to guard against an attack on Okinawa or other remote areas. Under the
new guidelines, Japan intends to defend (or recapture, in the event of Chinese occupation) the islands situated in a 1,000 kilometer zone between the southern tip of Kyushu Island and Taiwan.

 

China has also developed electronic eavesdropping posts from the Pakistani port of Gwadar to Burma, to monitor ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, and has provided Burma
– the closest point to the Strait of Malacca – with “billions of dollars in military assistance to support a de facto military alliance.”  This report is excerpted from China Reform Monitor bulletins.

 

These activities are causing alarm in many circles as the fear of an invasion of Taiwan is always a possibility and preparations for something is underway. Pray that the nations will be able to resolve these issues apart from war that disrupts families, Christian activity and world stability.