Arab Spring, Chinese Fall


The Middle East has been a tinderbox for decades.  But there's a problem with our intervention in Afghanistan in particular, and that is the fact that both Pakistan and India, not far away, have nuclear weapons.  India is reasonably stable but Pakistan is another matter entirely, and the last thing we need is for a conflict to spread into that country.
The worst of the unrest, however, isn't there and isn't being widely-reported.  It's in China. 
China and Japan have had a long-running territorial dispute over some a handful of islands.  Over the weekend what had been a simmering issue turned into a real problem with Chinese rising up and doing something extraordinary: They are demanding WAR with Japan.
Not This August, but October.  Looks like Cyril was only off by a few months.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

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