China, being a nuclear power and rapidly expanding its arsenal, changes the strategic equation,
“The task force is comprised of U.S. forces providing our Philippines allies with enhanced cooperation and interoperability for their maritime operations.”
Using standards set forth by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Philippine Maritime Zones Act and Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act identify the country’s internal waters, archipelagic waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone, continental shelf and sea lanes. China condemned the new laws, claiming that they destabilize the region and reiterated its claims by posting a list of coordinates detailing maritime features, including Sabina and Second Thomas Shoals, and their Chinese names.
On Monday at 11 a.m., the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) confirmed Shandong, together with cruiser CNS Yan’an (106) and destroyer CNS Zhanjiang (165), were sailing in an area 447 miles south of Miyako Island.
Supported by gunboats and a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, Philippine Navy SEALs and Marines approached a South China Sea island owned by Manila in a simulated seizure drill as Chinese forces observed from afar on Wednesday.
Shandong won’t do crap, and would join the Japanese carrier Shokaku from WWII at the bottom of the Phillipine Sea too should they decide to FAFO.
The Chinese have a claim for “reparations” agaist the US per one comment?
Really? What crime? Resisting ChiCom troops, an aggressor, is Korea?
Biden has a week to go expect more comrade.
Bkmk
Thanks to all of you who thought that saving a few pennies on Chinese made goods was more important that this. The Chinese communists couldn’t have done it without you.