Posted on 10/27/2015 8:43:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The US just called China out on a huge bluff on Tuesday, sending a naval destroyer into the most disputed waters in the world — waters that China claims it has the right to control.
The patrol by guided-missile destroyer, the USS Lassen, was the most significant US challenge yet to 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China asserts in the South China Sea and could ratchet up tensions in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.
Rumblings that the US Navy would display its power in the South China Sea started earlier this month, after President Xi Jinping asserted China's sovereignty over the waters during his state visit to the US in September.
US allies in the region have decried China's increasing dominance in the territory, and conversely, China has made it a point of national pride with a state-owned tabloid calling this issue the country's "bottom line."
What's more, for over a year China has been diligently building out the tops of island reefs in the South China Sea, reclaiming 2,000 acres of land and turning that land into military bases.
In April, satellite imagery showed that the Chinese military had built an airstrip big enough for military aircraft on one of those islands.
One US defense official said the USS Lassen sailed within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef. A second defense official said the mission, which lasted a few hours, also included Mischief Reef and would be the first in a series of freedom-of-navigation exercises aimed at testing China's territorial claims.
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Free Traitors™ are very concerned.
So, Obama gave the go ahead to do this I presume?
Wag the dog.
China does not have a Military , the Military is owned by the Chinese Communist Party
And then eat it at the victory banquet....
Hmmmm reflect your comments and does it not foreshadow what Obama wants, enforced control of the populace with his own military to do so...
They need Brown shirts but they wear Black ones instead...
Fashion statement?
Or Declaration.....
Watch and See...
We should start up George Bush's "hurricane generator" (typhoon in Pacific), and level those islands.
Stupid headline. We don’t know if it is a bluff...yet.
I don't buy that we are threatening in any way
Because I don't trust the muzzie in the white mosque, I think if anything ... the US is there to give thr Philippines a false sense of security should there be any aggressive activity BY China
The US will not intervene
It is all smoke n' mirrors
Open sea lanes of communication. You would think a country whose economic well-being depends on it would kick up less of a fuss over it.
China wants the USA to obey maritime law about 12 mile limits while they ignore maritime law against claiming 12 mile limits around manufactured islands.
They know Obozo is a wimp
If this bluff aimed at our biggest debtholder (after the American taxpayer) blows up- not to worry
We have Obama as commander in chief
What could possibly go wrong
RE: If this bluff aimed at our biggest debtholder (after the American taxpayer) blows up- not to worry
Financially:
If I owe you $10,000 and cannot pay, I am under your mercy. If I owe you $1 Trillion and cannot pay, YOU are under MY mercy.
I’d say China will call our bluff...and that, very soon.
The USN destroyer was shadowed by a Chinese destroyer. Both probably were gathering intel on each other.
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