Posted on 09/05/2016 6:49:22 PM PDT by traumer
This week, President Obama is making his final trip to Asia. With the presidential election looming, it is the right time to reflect on Obama’s foreign policy, and to think about what is to come. A key component of the next president’s foreign policy must be to compel China to respect international law. Otherwise, we may be faced by a conflict with a growing navy at a time when ours is decreasing in size. Obama has not made this imperative any easier.
On July 12 an international tribunal at The Hague found that China possessed neither an historic claim over disputed islands in the South China Sea nor a legal basis for sovereign claims over its waters. On the same day Beijing landed civilian aircraft on two of the three reefs—Subi and Mischief—that China has turned into armed islands. This gives China three working runways in the disputed Spratly Islands the nearest of which is 600 miles from China.
Notwithstanding Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 2015 statement to President Obama that the manmade islands would not be militarized, continued construction of hardened hangars demonstrates Beijing’s intent to deploy combat aircraft to the islands. The CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency website shows what the islands will look like when People’s Liberation Army Air Force fighter aircraft arrive.
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Please, God.. Please let President Trump be in the oval office.
By Former Deputy Undersecretary of the US Navy under both President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush
We would kick their butts even under Obama.
Obama, Algore and Kerri’ have postulated that the islands will be below the waves in 20 years. No worries mate.
We would need to do it quick or 0bama would pull us out.
One typhoon away from starting all over.
A nuclear war with China is inevitable unless we get some adults in our government.
With a CIC that would stand down for first strike? With a military that has been gutted of its decent officers, to be replaced with a PC bunch of pansies? With a military that gets to show a stress card to get a little time off from their DIs?
The way they treated Obama this past weekend? They do not respect our leader. Do you think they respect our Navy?
If so, how could one think it would end there?
Under Dorkbama the Muslim Eunuch or Hillary the lying low IQ man-beast, hell yes.
Pretty much we are telling the Chinese, that the South China sea, should be run from the Netherlands, by European courts, enforced by Americans.
So yeah, there will eventually be a war. 2 years...20 years, who knows.
But basically this is 1900 again, the western powers want to make the rules. And I would bet that a modern boxer rebellion is coming.
But it will likely be economic war, not the crude bomb and shell variant.
Not until they’ve dominated and subjugated all of Asia. Their build up, militarily, is not to fight the US but to ensure military dominance over the Asian countries.
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India.
That’s who the Chinese are aiming to beat, militarily. They’ll hold off for the US until they have Asia in the bag. And at that point, it probably won’t matter about a conflict with the US, since over half the world’s population (and, realistically, the only regions left that still have extreme growth potential) will be under their control.
Wasn’t the snub of Obama at the G-20 at least partially a response to the war pact made last week between the U.S. and India ?
That war pact also included Austrailia and Japan.
With South Korea, the Phillipines and Viet Nam also countering China it seems like some serious posturing going on that is not just about the US and China.
All it takes is one SSGN (USS Ohio, Florida, Georgia, Michigan) to unload its compliment of 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles into the Three Gorges Dam and China becomes a memory.
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