[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Last Ship’s latest episode mirrors this conflict.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Phillipines, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, USA = The Western Pacific Treaty Organisation

[Gay State Conservative]

Japan,South Korea,the Philippines,Thailand and even Vietnam have good reason to be afraid.Very afraid!

[tgusa]

The Chinese would do well to remember their history with the Japanese...

[tgusa]

The Chinese would do well to remember their history with the Japanese...

[Uncle Sam 911]

Are the chinese really willing to gamble everything? Amazing. They have lost their minds.

[Boogieman]

I think worries about Chinese aggression are fundamentally misplaced. The Chinese are already the dominant power in Asia, militarily and economically. They have nothing to gain by invading their neighbors and everything to lose.

When they declare a huge swathe of ocean “territorial waters”, or make a big show of military exercises to claim worthless unoccupied rocks, I believe they are doing that because those are easy ways to flex their muscle that they know will NOT provoke a war. It’s all theater to impress their own subjects, not actual aggressive moves that one would make if they wanted a war.

[Jack Hammer]

Things out that way are a little tense.

[DoughtyOne]

This was easily predictable clear back into the mid 1990s, when I did so..

Folks laughed, got angry, rolled on the floor kicking and screaming...

We can attribute this all to our trade policy with China, which modernized it, gave it a massive income stream, and was sure to result in hostility.

I said many of our youth would wind up dying due to our trade with China.  And in time, it will happen.  Millions will die, our citizens and the citizens of other nations.

Free Trade (as we have implemented it) deserves the three raspberry salute.


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[Jim Noble]

Look at a freaking MAP!

They’re surrounding Taiwan, and making sure they can deny access to the Strait to the US Navy during the coming invasion.