Posted on 07/16/2009 3:04:16 PM PDT by Flavius
The United States voiced concern Wednesday about rising tension between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea as a senator led calls to boost US seapower faced with Beijing's growing military.
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What’s the problem between China and Vietnam?
Fishing?
None of this would be happening had Hunter been elected.
“Since the Red Chinese won the Vietnam war, they need to deal with their satellite.”
They didn’t win that war. American socialists did.
BUMP
The last time Vietnam and China fought a war (1979) the Vietnamese whipped the Chinese army’s ass.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the U.S. and Vietnam had to ally against China some day?
I would rather not have my sons involved in any Vietnam war
How many years to late?
With this current administration, such an “alarm” falls on deaf ears.....
Of course the Vietnamese whipped the Chinese, they were battle-hardened from the Vietnam War and were able to defeat the World’s Superpower.
yeas chicoms got their industrial military complex up and running yesterday
Oil and Gas.
China, Vietnam, and the Philippines have overlapping claims on the continental shelf. And this will eventually be settled by UNCLOS.
OTOH, the USS McCain and China have had recent conflicts there while the McCain was mapping the bottom with sonar. The US has no claims there except to say some of that seabed doesn't belong to any of those nations, but is international, under control of UNCLOS.
Thank you. Was wondering what the spat was over.
Territorial desputes over various oil leases associated with islands in the China sea, also historically bad blood.
From what I’ve read there is tremondous historical bad blood between the Vietnamese and the Chinese due to repeated Chinese attempts to dominate Vietnam. Vietnamese communists allied with the Soviets, not the Chinese.
They would quake in their boots that China won’t buy enough treasuries to finance the expansion of US socialism. What a sad, sad situation we’ve allowed ourselves to get into.
What? Chopping our 600 ship fleet to 290 wasn’t a good idea?
Wow, never saw this coming... /s
Mine has a big lump on the end of it that’s intended to pound sense into some heads. ;-)
America should not takes sides on the conflicting territorial issues, but instead, work to broker peaceful settlements.
Hey, EEE. It’s nice to hear from you. So China is showing it’s muscle? Timing is everything, and now that we have a far leftist president, China is no longer afraid to be agressive.After all they own us lock, stock and barrel, thanks to GWB and BHO. Sob!
Chinese territorial expansion is not in America's interests. Consequently, we should side with any country that is fighting off Chinese invasion. That's to say we should arm and train them, not intervene directly, unless the Chinese are about to overrun them, in which case we should get a coalition of countries together to oppose Chinese imperialism.
Well, I don't believe China is going to be invading another country anytime soon.
The McCain is a “warship”, not a vessel that tows sonar arrays for mapping operations. Sorry, can’t recall the name of the ship that was doing that.
Lately, the McCain was shadowing a NK ship.
If you do a google news search of “USS McCain sonar”, you will find numerous articles of the Chinese sub running into the sonar device the USS McCain was dragging.
"On March 8, 2009, five Chinese vessels shadowed and aggressively maneuvered in dangerously close proximity to USNS Impeccable, in an apparent coordinated effort to harass the U.S. ocean surveillance ship while it was conducting routine operations in international waters," the Pentagon statement said.
I'm guessing USS McCain took over as a way of saying "try that with a ship that can fight back".
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