sharp war” with Japan.

Tensions between China and Japan remain high over Beijing’s efforts to claim the Senkaku Islands, Japanese islets located between the southern end of Japan and Taiwan.

China is claiming the Senkakus as its territory and last year imposed an air defense identification zone over the East China Sea that covers the uninhabited islands.

Both the United States and Japan announced they would not recognize the Chinese defense zone.

A Special Forces officer with China's navy AP In 2013, Fanell, during a similar conference in San Diego, warned that China was escalating what he said was the bullying of regional neighbors.

The blunt comments by the captain triggered criticism from pro-China analysts in the US government and academic community.

In November, Fanell was removed from his post and assigned to anotherRacism, death and history

Gird yourself, I’m about to talk about race and injustice and history and civil rights. Do you know who George Stinney was? Lord have mercy on so many who were responsible for the South Carolina state-sanctioned killing of an African-American 14-year-old boy.

Pre-Miranda rights, he was accused of murder, tried and executed in a few months. That happened in 1944, but information about young George’s tragic death has been recirculating, as recent talk about race has brought up old stuff. Would the same have happened to a white boy? Why do I have to talk about old stuff? Well, history matters. George Stinney matters. And do you know who else matters? Booker T. Spicely.
Spicely was also killed in the 1940s in a Carolina, but it was