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Philippine defense chief in verbal tussle with China on reef
https://www.yahoo.com/news/philippine-defense-chief-verbal-tussle-151049725.html ^

Posted on 04/03/2021 12:11:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

Associated Press Philippine defense chief in verbal tussle with China on reef JIM GOMEZ Sat, April 3, 2021, 8:10 AM MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An annoyed Philippine defense chief renewed a demand on Saturday for dozens of Chinese vessels to leave a Manila-claimed reef in the South China Sea, and said he would not be fooled by Chinese assertions that the vessels were taking shelter from bad weather.

The Chinese Embassy shot back at what it called a “perplexing statement” by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and insisted that the vessels had the right to take shelter in what it said was Chinese territory.

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What would Israel do? Love this kinda stuff. Don't know why. It's like a lion stalking a heard. They could all gather together and run him off but they're afraid to be the one that's eaten. No one likes China, not even the Norks & Russians. In the meantime India, Japan, North VN have their worries with the same antagonist. Perhaps Taiwan will take on the Israel role as they're the most directly threatened. Everyone else is willing to fight to the last American.
1 posted on 04/03/2021 12:11:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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RE: Philippine defense chief in verbal tussle with China on reef

VERBAL TUSSLE?

China’s response — OOOOOH, we’re so scared. And how many battalions do you have little one?


2 posted on 04/03/2021 12:13:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Let’s say there’s another Tianamen Square. The Uiyigers revolt and so do the Tibetans. Would they crush they’re internals or strike Taiwan knowing they could lose everything otherwise? Will Pakistan help them? Lotsa luck. There’s a billion + cocoas. It’s saving face to them. The Argentine Generals did it to the Falklands and an internal revolt in the Soviet union was the biggest threat to Europe not NATO.


3 posted on 04/03/2021 12:17:44 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Reef-er madness?


4 posted on 04/03/2021 12:19:16 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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> No one likes China, not even the Norks & Russians. <

It’s really weird, but a Japanese news channel suddenly appeared on my over-the-air TV lineup the other day. The news anchors were all Japanese, but they spoke in English.

And they slammed China every chance they could. They even called the Covid virus “the CCP virus”.


5 posted on 04/03/2021 12:27:13 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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It begs the question, what if we left the Japs alone when they invaded China before WWII. Would the Japs have turned into the real threat that today’s China turned out to be?


6 posted on 04/03/2021 12:29:34 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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> Would the Japs have turned into the real threat that today’s China turned out to be? <

I’d have to say yes. The Japanese government thought the US would sue for peace right after Pearl Harbor. So Tojo drew up a proposed peace treaty. He wanted (among other things) Alaska, Hawaii, and Cuba!

The Japs wanted it all then. The Chinese want it all now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Tojo#World_War_II


7 posted on 04/03/2021 1:16:09 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Remember, that Tojo was relatively late onto the scene, before him, the Japs weren’t so hardcore.


8 posted on 04/03/2021 1:38:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Good one!


9 posted on 04/03/2021 1:51:04 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Bite Me.....The Commander-in-Thief, Commander-in-Cheat, Illegitimate president!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Duterte regardless of his so-called mouth, is an agent of China. He disses the US but when it comes to the COvid People, he shuts up.


10 posted on 04/03/2021 4:25:57 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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Obama pressured the previous president not to try to stop China. The islands were built and weaponized before Duterte took over.

There is no way we can stop them now that they are dug in.
This move is to test Biden. There is no bad weather here for example, but the obedient press didn't bother to check it.

Duterte hates the CiA, because they got a criminal out of jail when he was a mayor.
The CIA had their own candidates in place to win when he entered the race late and messed up their plan. One opposition paper was funded by Omidyar, a suspected CIA opetztive who paid for press manipulating to overthrow a pro Russian president in the Ukraine.

The US then opposed his war on drugs, something that has ade us safe. They cite every murder to blame Duterte but don't compare it to the previous murder rate, which was quite high, or notice that some murders were private hits because the courts and cops didn't prosecute the perpetrator.

And now China is playing the savior by supplying vaccines...

11 posted on 04/03/2021 7:48:00 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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