1-May-16 World View -- China makes four demands of Japan to improve relations / Kenya's huge ivory burning event

[John]

1-May-16 World View -- China makes four demands of Japan to improve relations

Kenya's huge ivory burning event may endanger elephants further


** 1-May-16 World View -- China makes four demands of Japan to improve relations
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e160501



Contents:
Kenya's huge ivory burning event may endanger elephants further
China makes four demands of Japan to improve relations


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, elephants, ivory,
Japan, Fumio Kishida, China, Li Keqiang, Nanjing massacre, Taiwan

[Tom Mazanec]

On ivory burning, here is a look at the "pro" side arguments https://www.project-syndicate.org/comme ... ey-2016-04

[MarvyGuy]

Lowy latest on China. BIG report. I suppose take away is China can now let US escalate through FON exercises as they "drag feet" while continuing militarization and possibly laying of hydrophone network to detect subs. Subs will probably be the only things "safe" once the hypesonic delivery systems are deployed in large numbers.

http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publicatio ... e-security

[John]

> Lowy latest on China. BIG report. I suppose take away is China can
> now let US escalate through FON exercises as they "drag feet"
> while continuing militarization and possibly laying of hydrophone
> network to detect subs. Subs will probably be the only things
> "safe" once the hypesonic delivery systems are deployed in large
> numbers.

> http://www.lowyinstitute.org/publicatio ... e-security

> International concern over China’s assertive island-building
> campaign in the South China Sea overlooks a broader shift in its
> maritime security conduct. Chinese naval and coastguard forces are
> taking fewer tactical risks than a few years ago. Beijing now
> advocates confidence-building measures that until recently it had
> refused to consider. These developments are helping to lower the
> risks of maritime incidents, miscalculations, and accidental
> conflict. However, they are also facilitating China’s increasingly
> ‘passive assertive’ challenges to Asia’s maritime status quo —
> notably, its creation and militarisation of disputed islands, its
> establishment of new zones of military authority, and its conduct
> of expansive patrols in the East and South China Seas. While these
> actions are not tactically dangerous, they represent a long-term
> strategic challenge to the regional order. Other countries must
> assume a degree of cost and risk to push back against China’s
> passive assertiveness. Yet, a prudent balance must be struck
> between signalling tactical resolve and pursuing indirect
> strategies to shape Chinese behaviour in ways that minimise the
> risks of escalation. This requires a multidimensional,
> coordinated, and international effort to impose costs on Beijing,
> and offer incentives, linked to its reputational, strategic, and
> economic interests.

Lowy almost always takes the Neville Chamberlain view of Chinese
aggression, probably because otherwise they'd scare their
Australian audience to death.