Posted on 05/25/2015 6:24:13 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A Chinese state-owned newspaper said on Monday that "war is inevitable" between China and the United States over the South China Sea unless Washington stops demanding Beijing halt the building of artificial islands in the disputed waterway.
The Global Times, an influential nationalist tabloid owned by the ruling Communist Party's official newspaper the People's Daily, said in an editorial that China was determined to finish its construction work, calling it the country's "most important bottom line".
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These loud mouthed empty shirt politicians in China would make great members of obama's administration.
For like obama they talk and talk, threaten and threaten and then go play golf till the next press conference.
We'll know they've achieved military parity when they cut with the idle posturing. That's the sort of thing North Korea does.
Why should they worry? With Obama at the helm backing down has become an art form.
China is going to go to WA with the US no matter what, at some point.
North Korea should sell the Philippines some nukes.
Time to take the mothballs off of some of the old boomers and station them in the western Pacific.
Of course, the regime now in control of the territory once known as “the United States of America” will back away from confrontation, and in in the vacuum created, the adversary simply moves in to occupy the now vacated position.
Contrast this with the early days of the Bush Administration, in April 2001, when Chinese fighters began hazing an electronic reconnaissance flight over international waters between the Philippines and the South China coastline, resulting in a collision over the south China Sea between a U.S. Navy EP-3E reconnaissance plane and a People’s Liberation Army naval F-8 fighter that crashed.
The Navy plane, badly damaged but still airworthy, turned back toward the Philippines, and the pilot put the hammer down. But the damage only allowed a limited airspeed, even with the turboprops wound out and sweating oil. The other Chinese planes in the squadron surrounded and forced the Navy plane to turn to Hainen Island just off the Chinese coast, where it was landed and the crew taken into custody.
It was a tense period, but the measure was taken in full by George W. Bush, and the matter was resolved without further escalation, the crew, and eventually the airplane, returned to the US.
I cannot imagine the Current Occupant ever showing any such resolve.
Proper translation:
“War is inevitable if the US opposes our annexation of Philippines territory.
Me thinks China knows our “leader” will cave
China has nothing to worry about. Our poodle will scurry to Mama Valerie and hide behind her.
Enlist the Vietnamese at the southern front. It may not stop them, but it would sure shake them up a bit.
Should never have closed Subic Bay and Clark. Should have kept them open, even if with a reduced presence.
The Chinese are highly nationalistic. Let no one tell you different. They have their own brand of Chinese exceptionalism.
Obamatrade is Obama’s surrender
Embarrassing! Bring back the draft so everyone has skin in the game and get it done.
Oops, forgot, we have a Knoble Prize winner in the shanty.
North Korea will do nothing to piss off China or the Red Chinese would be accross their borders in minutes—who would help North Korea? No one. If the Chinese do not fear us—they might do anything—even attack a carrier. What will America do if the USS Ronald Reagan rolls over and takes 1,000 seaman and seawomen to Davy Jones Locker? The people would be enraged but Obama would only give a speech and send Susan Rice to the UN to send a letter to the Chinese. The USA may well pull back from the China Sea as China expands—ready to take on Japan and India.
“Why should they worry? With Obama at the helm backing down has become an art form.”
You’re absolutely right. There’s not a chance in hell that Buckwheat would go to war with China over ANYTHING, and the whole world is well aware of that fact.
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