7 April 2013 Breaking News China Signals it will Back North Korea in War end times news update 4-7-13 
China won't sell out North Korea, no matter how much it should, and that sends a message to the rest of the world.
Who would you rather have in your corner? Who is going to stand by you when times are tough? China or America?
Officially China may not be too happy about the way that North Korea is acting. Or maybe it is.
China  isn't too worried that Obama will actually drop his golf clubs and  stand up to the Communist banker of his welfare state. It doesn't want  to appear too crazy in public, but it has moved to a more militarist  stance and North Korean aggressiveness serves its interests by tying up  the United States in Korea while allowing its leaders to be the ones who  claim to have the choke hold on the Nuclear Hound of North Korea.
But  if push does come to shove, then China has North Korea's back. Unlike  Obama Inc. which only has the Muslim Brotherhood's back.
China  continued moving tanks and armored vehicles and flying flights near  North Korea this week as part of a military buildup in the northeastern  part of the country that U.S. officials say is related to the crisis  with North Korea.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to  play down the Chinese military buildup along the border with Beijing   fraternal communist ally despite the growing danger of conflict  following unprecedented threats by Pyongyang to attack the United States  and South Korea with nuclear weapons.     The buildup appears linked to  North Korea's March 30 announcement that it is in a state of war with  South Korea after the United Nations imposed a new round of sanctions  following the North's Feb. 12 2013 nuclear test and because of ongoing  large-scale joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises.
The  People's Liberation Army (PLA) troop and tank movements were reported in  Daqing, located in northeastern Heilongjiang Province, and in the  border city of Shenyang, in Liaoning Province.
Officials said one  key military unit involved in the mobilization is the 190th Mechanized  Infantry Brigade based in Benxi, Liaoning Province. The brigade is  believed to be the PLA's frontline combat unit that would respond to any  regional conflict or refugee flows. Troops and tank movements also were  reported in Dandong, in Liaoning Province.     Fighter jets were  reported flying in larger numbers in Fucheng, Hebei Province, and in  Zhangwu and Changchun, Liaoning Provinces.     Additionally, the troop  buildup is a signal to Pyongyang that China will abide by its defense  commitment to North Korea in the event of renewed conflict.
If  the PRC really wanted to discourage North Korea's misbehavior, then it  would avoid the buildup. After all the only thing China really has to  worry about is a flood of refugees and it doesn't need jets or tanks to  deal with them.
The message being sent is that China, unlike the United States, doesn't abandon its allies.
Obama  may have sold out Poland on missile defense and sold out the UK on the  Falklands and Israel on Hamas. Obama sold out Mubarak and the leaders of  most American allies in the Middle East.
March 31st 2013 Presstv  reports - Russian president Putin orders unscheduled military drill in  Black Sea Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an unexpected  military exercise involving dozens of ships and thousands of troops in  the Black Sea.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday  that Putin issued the order for the large-scale maneuvers overnight as  he flew back from the South African city of Durban after a two-day  summit of the BRICS group of emerging powers.
Peskov further said  the drill is aimed at testing the battle-readiness of Russia's Black  Sea units.     "These are large-scale unannounced test exercises. The  main goal is to check the readiness and cohesion of the various units,"  he said.
The ships taking part in the exercise have already  left the Russia-leased Sevastopol port in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula,  the Russian spokesman added.
According to a Kremlin statement,  the drill will involve 36 vessels, up to 7,000 troops and an unspecified  number of aircraft. However, the statement did not specify how long the  exercise would last.
Russian foreign affairs analyst Fyodor  Lukyanov, who is also the editor of Russia in Global Affairs journal,  said, "It is flexing muscles and may have more to do with what is  happening in the Mediterranean, around Syria, than in the Black Sea."
In  January, Russia launched its largest naval exercises in decades in the  Mediterranean and Black Seas near the territorial waters of Syria.
Moscow  said the drills were "held in line with the Russian Armed Forces' 2013  combat training plan," and focused on "interoperability of task forces  from several fleets while on a mission in a far-off maritime zone."
In addition to Georgia and Ukraine, Russia shares the Black Sea with Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.