[thackney]

The South China Sea holds around 11 billion barrels of oil
and 190 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas in proven and probable reserves

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/oil-southchinasea-idUKL4N0B815T20130208

[Da Coyote]

As if China (or anyone else for that matter) is afraid of the US with Stickman O’Wimpo at the helm.

[thackney]

Is Japan involved just to keep leash on China? Or do they have other interests involved?

[brownsfan]

America is weak and in the process of being neutered.

The world is getting what they've wanted for the past 50 years, a post-American world. Might want to increase your military spending.

[Gaffer]

....Last month, China “painted” a Japanese military helicopter

Gee. What color did they 'paint' it? (I've been working in radar and antenna engineering for decades and have never used that term - ever. Locked on, 'dead meat', 'toast', 'up sh!t creek' --- but never 'painted')

[SomeCallMeTim]

Rut row... the Chinese have several million young men with no hope of finding a bride.... what to do with them... hmnn....

[Sawdring]

Rubes, boobs and pubes have been developing US foreign policy since 1992.

[gaijin]

GayMuzzie has demonstrated ambivalence about commitments to her allies.

The result here will be an arms-race in Asia.

We’ll also see that in the Middle-East.

[Army Air Corps]

Pei Ping.

[SeminoleCounty]

Too bad the Free Trade Communists who blindly support Free Trade with Communist China will make it hard for the US to deal w this situation. Free Traders just keep helping the enemy

[SC DOC]

Fiction coming true, and it isn't pretty.