Posted on 08/24/2018 12:36:47 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The Single Draft South China Sea Code of Conduct Negotiating Text is a work in progress which will take several more session to create a final Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, but it cannot be ignored.
Today, we are being challenged on multiple fronts by China and their aggression and expansionists policies. Clearly, their primary strategic objective is to dominate the Western Pacific and the Asian Rimland. The Rimland is the strip of coastal land that encircles Eurasia. For decades we had encouraged China’s economic growth with the hope that such growth would foster less stringent control by the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party, leading to greater freedom for the Chinese people. Clearly, this policy was misguided and has failed.
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A waste of time. No little nation will go against them as long as the US is there. Fact is we created a monster. We don’t even have a coherent policy when administrations change. Like NAFTA people got rich while we got screwed. When they threaten Taiwan all bets are off. What would the rats do if they were in charge? Nothing.
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