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China Plans To Seize South China Sea Island From Philippines, Says "Battle Will Be Restricted"
Zero Hedge ^

Posted on 01/12/2014 6:34:36 PM PST by Snickering Hound

Following Japan's proclamations that it will take over another 280 'disputed ownership' islands, it appears the increasingly dis-approved of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's path of militarism and provocation is working.

As China Daily Mail reports, citing experts, China intends to take back Zhongye Island - 'illegally' occupied by the Philippines, according to the Chinese.

The Chinese navy has drawn a detailed combat plan to seize the island and the battle will be restricted within the South China Sea. Philippines military is building up on the island and the Chinese see as 'intolerable' the "arrogance" relying on US support.

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan
KEYWORDS: asia; bho44; bhoasia; china; philippines; redchina; rodrigoduterte; southchinasea; thephilippines; zhongyeisland
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To: Snickering Hound; All

Anyone who still supports Free Trade with Communist China supports the Communist Chinese.

Free Trader Communists would have given Stalin all of Europe if they could

Free Traders just love bankrolling the enemy


21 posted on 01/12/2014 6:55:12 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Amnesty And Not Ending ObamaCare Will Kill GOP In 2014)
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To: Snickering Hound

I think this is all a test to see how the kenyan reacts. If he does not then all of East Asia becomes a contest zone.


22 posted on 01/12/2014 6:55:19 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: glorgau
China may find itself saying:


23 posted on 01/12/2014 6:57:31 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: spokeshave

“What is with Obamas’s weird golfing poses....?”

I have learned from my mole deep within the regime that in this particular image he is trying to get a tampon out of his arse after a “Weekend at Reggie’s”.


24 posted on 01/12/2014 6:58:44 PM PST by 43north (I could never be a liberal because I can't get my head far enough up my arse.)
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To: arthurus

“I think this is all a test to see how the kenyan reacts.”
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That is most likely,...I do not, however, think that China will make any REAL moves. They have too much commerce in the South China Sea region to screw it up.


25 posted on 01/12/2014 7:01:36 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Viennacon

So, the “Domino Effect” is finally occurring.


26 posted on 01/12/2014 7:02:16 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Hoodat

I personally thought the ease with which Hong Kong and Macau were given back to China, sent a very poor signal to them.

China should have every reason to think that whatever it demands, it will get. It rattles it’s sabers, and everyone falls in line.

At some point we’re going to have to say no to China. A few more of these exchanges, and Taiwan will be the demand “NOW!”

And on it goes, us financing China’s rise.

There has never been a nation on earth, that built up it’s number one enemy in such short order.

We deserve what we get.


27 posted on 01/12/2014 7:02:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: AlexW

Good Lord, man.

You really expect 0bama’s USSA to come to your defense against either the Muzzies or the Chicoms?

You’ll be shoveling six feet of snow out of your front yard there before that happens.

YOYO.


28 posted on 01/12/2014 7:03:27 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dfwgator

“No plan survives it’s first contact with the enemy.” - Clausewitz.


29 posted on 01/12/2014 7:04:18 PM PST by henkster (Communists never negotiate.)
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To: AlexW

If they do make a move and the USA backs off then China gets its way altogether subject only to Japan’s reactions. If China thinks the US will not oppose it then China will grab the islands and the Sinicization of the Western Pacific will progress in earnest.


30 posted on 01/12/2014 7:06:02 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Snickering Hound

A sino-american naval conflict, big or small, would “sink” the “free traitors” gloBULList strangle hold on the US manufacturing sector. A GOOD THING.


31 posted on 01/12/2014 7:08:33 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: wku man

Why, yes... yes, I think he did...


32 posted on 01/12/2014 7:10:51 PM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: glorgau

of it’s just a matter of chicom pride perhaps they will just NUKE the island and let it go at that?


33 posted on 01/12/2014 7:11:36 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Help fight The Neo Stalinists! Donate to your Free Republic)
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To: SeminoleCounty

I hope, no pray, that all of the gloBULList capital investment in China, factories and equipment(including suicide netting) gets confiscated(Nationalized) by the ChiCom govt. It would serve them right IMO. A child could see that one coming from miles away.


34 posted on 01/12/2014 7:11:52 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: arthurus

The Phillipines ran us out of Clark and Subic. Now they need us. Will they let us back in for free(no rent)? These countries despise us until they need us.


35 posted on 01/12/2014 7:12:48 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SeminoleCounty

“Anyone who still supports Free Trade with Communist China supports the Communist Chinese.”
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I understand your point, but if China is cut off, the west will be back in the stone age. Just do a study of what American branded products that you buy are NOT made in China.
The next time you shop in WallyWorld, look at the packages and see where they came from. For example, Black and Decker, made in China. Look at where Levi jeans are made.


36 posted on 01/12/2014 7:16:25 PM PST by AlexW
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To: DIRTYSECRET
The Phillipines ran us out of Clark and Subic. Now they need us. Will they let us back in for free(no rent)? These countries despise us until they need us.

Exactly.

At least the Philippines didn't use our notion of "free trade" against us like the rest of Asia that nestled under the American umbrella.

37 posted on 01/12/2014 7:17:59 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Snickering Hound
Sounds like the Butchers of Beijing were paying close attention when Osama Obama promised Vlad Putin that he'd be more “flexible” when he reached the point where elections and poll numbers were no longer of interest to him.
38 posted on 01/12/2014 7:19:46 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Hoodat
why do I have this '38 Munich feelings..was it, "Peace in our time."
..of course; pResident 0'ButtCrack, shall still be on the golf course
@ 10a & 2p or in bed w/ his gay posse @ 3am as the bombs drop.

39 posted on 01/12/2014 7:25:12 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: Snickering Hound

China has to act while America is a rudderless ship, but Dear Leader could set off a nuclear holocaust solely through his bottomless ineptitude, as his response will be neither measured nor intelligently calculated.


40 posted on 01/12/2014 7:26:56 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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