Obama says concerned China bullying others in South China Sea

Reuters ^ | 2015-04-09 | Matt Spetalnick and Sui-Lee Wee

[E. Pluribus Unum]

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington is concerned China is using its "sheer size and muscle" to push around smaller nations in the South China Sea, just hours after Beijing gave a detailed defense of its creation of artificial islands in the contested waterway.

[factoryrat]

China has the ability to effectively bully the US into submission, for the simple fact that they OWN the majority of US manufacturers.

Don’t believe me? The absolute worst thing that will happen is that all of those chi-com controlled factories bashing out all of the consumer products for western firms get the order to stop shipping to the west, and the west, including the US will be powerless to do anything about it.

The chinese now control the means of production, and the free traders sold them the rope that they will strangle us with.

[faithhopecharity]

Potentially important yes. But it's also just one more thing he can Phuque Up🐺

[pieceofthepuzzle]

One wonders if Obama has the ability to rethink his rigid, incorrect, markedly flawed world-view and see who the real villains in the world are.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“The chinese now control the means of production, and the free traders sold them the rope that they will strangle us with.”

Yes, probably, but for now we still represent a huge percentage of the customers whose purchases support the continuation of that production. If we were to ban Chinese made goods tomorrow, and the rest of the West was to do the same, their economy would implode very rapidly. I'm not proposing that, but am saying that we still have time to right the ship. That period of grace won't last forever if we don't start acting to preserve our economy and way of life.

[BenLurkin]

A hashtag campaign

[Gator113]

Just shoot me into the Sun, I no longer want to deal with this moron from Hell.

[crusher2013]

It allows him to connect with his base.

[Army Air Corps]

He is a sock puppet. His masters are in control.

[ought-six]

“He has the mental capacity of a child.”

He is an utter embarrassment to the country.

[tet68]

Don’t forget the Panama canal, they are on both
ports now.

[Mark17]

He has pissed off most other nations, so why not China, too?

Yes, but he usually pisses off our friends, and coddles our enemies.

[ldish]

F*ck up middle east now it is on to china...what a degraded pos failure

[Calpublican]

Accusations of “bullying” are very popular with liberals right now. He is using the proper, current, politically correct vernacular.

[McGruff]

What could go wrong?