{"id":5534,"date":"2012-09-20T02:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2012-09-20T02:18:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T06:18:37","slug":"china-japan-and-the-worlds-agadir-crisis-1911-telegraph-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/20\/china-japan-and-the-worlds-agadir-crisis-1911-telegraph-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Japan and the world\u2019s Agadir Crisis (1911) \u2013 Telegraph Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The US has an impossible task maintaining &#8220;neutrality&#8221;, and Beijing knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Washington guarantees Japan\u2019s defence under its US nuclear umbrella. It uses military bases on Japanese soil as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It works hand in glove with Tokyo in a tight military alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether Washington is really willing to uphold the Japanese alliance as the going gets tougher. Will it let America to be led by the nose by Japanese nationalists into a clash that is not obviously \u2013 or immediately \u2013 in US national interest?<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama faces the toughest diplomatic choice of any US leader since John Kennedy&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/ambroseevans-pritchard\/100020173\/china-japan-and-the-worlds-agadir-crisis-1911\/\">China, Japan and the world\u2019s Agadir Crisis (1911) \u2013 Telegraph Blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The US has an impossible task maintaining &#8220;neutrality&#8221;, and Beijing knows it. Washington guarantees Japan\u2019s defence under its US nuclear umbrella. It uses military bases on Japanese soil as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It works hand in glove with Tokyo in a tight military alliance. The question is whether Washington is really &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/20\/china-japan-and-the-worlds-agadir-crisis-1911-telegraph-blogs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China, Japan and the world\u2019s Agadir Crisis (1911) \u2013 Telegraph Blogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17,34],"tags":[669,3569],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-hk","category-japan-korea","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-china-naval-expansion","tag-us-japan-alliance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China, Japan and the world\u2019s Agadir Crisis (1911) \u2013 Telegraph Blogs - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China, Japan and the world\u2019s Agadir Crisis (1911) \u2013 Telegraph Blogs - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The US has an impossible task maintaining &#8220;neutrality&#8221;, and Beijing knows it. 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