China testing waters with US with provocative acts – Santiago

Global Nation Inquirer ^ | 12/2/12 | Phillipine News

[ILS21R]

“Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said China has been appearing displeased by US military’s plan to “pivot” its presence to Asia following the planned pull-out of troops from Iran and Afghanistan.”

IRAN? IRAN? Idiots in power across the globe. How did this come to be?

[meatloaf]

Go to the link and select the United States, India and China. India’s population is poised to greatly exceed China’s. The United States is not the long term primary adversary of China.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009922309104512.html

[hinckley buzzard]

China's territorial aggression in the South China Sea has been building for several years. Now that the US under Obama has been essentially booted out of southeast Asia by the local authorities, China is revving up its campaign to assert suzerainty over its smaller neighbors.

Obama was humiliated at the Asian meetings last week. Whatever Obama does about this will be wrong. He will either do too little or recklessly lurch and make things worse..

[ClearCase_guy]

Up until 1898, Great Britain was clearly the world's superpower. Sure, Germany and Russia wanted to compete, but they were not at that level. France and Spain were has-beens, but respected as world powers. Then, in 1898 the US won the Spanish-American war. We went beyond our own borders. For the first time, we were a world power of some sort. Certainly not at the level of Great Britain -- we had no empire. But by 1898, the world had to pay attention to us.

Jump forward 20 years. It's 1918. Who is the greatest power in the world? Who owns almost all the gold on the planet? That would be the United States. Britain was on its way to losing its empire. A world power still, but hardly a superpower.It can happen that quickly.

The US today in 2012? We've been pushed off the platform. Our time has passed, and we will not recover our glory. The world has changed.

We may not realize that -- but China knows.

[hinckley buzzard]

She probably heard Biden yak about obama "ending the wars in Iran and Iraq."

[Don Corleone]

The land under the South China Sea is rich in OIL!!!

[ILS21R]

True.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

End “free trade” now.

Bring back US jobs, and put Americans back to work.

[HangnJudge]

Courtesy of:

http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. There are ways that we could re-invent our way of life. It wouldn't be quite like it was in 1950 or 1960 or whatever -- you cannot turn back the clock. But we could get smart about the global economy, about manufacturing, about government charity, about taxes and property ownership. We could build an America that can survive in the 21st century, with good jobs for hard-working people.

But I don't see politicians who have any interest in any of that.

[OldNavyVet]

End “free trade” now.

The essence of freedom is found in free trade ... and the essence of slavery is found in found in the absence of free trade bartering between employers and employees.

[freedumb2003]

>>Obama was humiliated at the Asian meetings last week. Whatever Obama does about this will be wrong. He will either do too little or recklessly lurch and make things worse..<<

Our weak and stupid president emboldens our enemies.

[Zhang Fei]

It is unfortunate that the Philippines and other countries that would be affected by China’s plan to board foreign ships are caught in the power play it is engaged in with the US, according to Santiago.

Retarded sentiments like this are why the Philippines continues to dawdle over a much-needed defense upgrade. Uncle Sam couldn't care less, given that American territory isn't part of the dispute. And yet she has more or less come to the conclusion that this is a dispute between China and the US having nothing to do with the Philippines. Where do they find these defectives and how do they get elected to office?

[al baby]

We have become a third world nation this was not the country i wanted to grow old in

[uncommonsense]

"China is provoking public attention but knows very well she cannot get away with it and that America at some point will put its foot down, the senator said"

Translation - China, keep pushing the boundaries, we're not ready to act yet.

[desertfreedom765]

“The essence of freedom is found in free trade ... and the essence of slavery is found in found in the absence of free trade bartering between employers and employees.”

How is it free trade bartering when employers have unlimited labor supply. (Immigration, H1-B visa, Outsourcing, etc).

They have rigged the laws of supply and demand for labor.

Also how do you feel about the new Superpower our policies have created? They may prove to be more dangerous than the old Soviet Union.

But Hey the Employers were able to get cheap labor for a time and that’s all that’s important to you.

[TEXOKIE]

I read a story in past few days which reports that the new Chinese passports show Taiwan and another disputed territory (the Sinkaku Islands I believe) as part of Chinese holdings.

[Jumper]

China does not favor a untied Asean - it is ASEAN or Association of South East Asian Nations; I was the note-taker for the Korean hosted event in 1982. This association is an economic bloc, although politics always follow just as the America stationing of troops after WWII led to Cold War blocs opposing USSR stationing of troops before Russia's collapse.

Could it be that China is a rote student of history with no capacity to foresee changes, but hostage to its 5000 year history of continuity and therefore unable to see the USA is not going to follow the Soviet Union, or Russia into non-superpower status for the immediate future. The debt we owe them does not include economic suicide and will probably be called void by the incumbent of the Oval Office within the next four years should these aggressions continue to cost us more Money in response.

[OldNavyVet]

How is it free trade bartering when employers have unlimited labor supply.

It is a simplistic fact that every employee has some variable economic value to their employer.