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Vietnam and China face off in South China Sea
Reuters ^ | 5/7/2014 | Nguyen Phuong Linh and Michael Martina

Posted on 05/07/2014 10:03:42 AM PDT by mojito

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I see the Chicoms have wasted no time in crossing another of Barry's red lines.
1 posted on 05/07/2014 10:03:43 AM PDT by mojito
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China´s massacre in Spratly islands [real footage 1988]
http://youtu.be/Uy2ZrFphSmc


2 posted on 05/07/2014 10:09:18 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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Maybe Ho Chi Minh can fix this. What the hell do the Vietnamese need oil for? They have to fill up their water buffalo?


3 posted on 05/07/2014 10:11:28 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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It is time to warn China. Open the china South Sea up by stationing a large unit of American, Japanese, and Taiwanese forces and warn China any aggression will result in positive action.

Well a thought but with communists King Obama, never happen. This fool is a coward and hides when anything really happens.

4 posted on 05/07/2014 10:12:12 AM PDT by Logical me
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Taiwan and China are on the same side here.


5 posted on 05/07/2014 10:14:54 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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Zero's “pivot” to Asia entails lots of running away.

Big Barry was just in Asia last week and telling the Chicoms to behave themselves.

Like everyone else, they laughed at Barry and said, “make us.”

If the Chicoms aren't careful, Barry will issue a press release calling Chinese actions “unhelpful.”

6 posted on 05/07/2014 10:17:44 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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7 posted on 05/07/2014 10:18:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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Vietnam said on Wednesday a Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two of its ships
Too bad, so sad. Maybe the VN gubmint will pass a Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
8 posted on 05/07/2014 10:21:09 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Easy to see why the Chinese are getting aggressive. With a weak and docile U.S. administration, now is the time to push territorial ambitions. Not to justify such behavior, but they’re simply taking advantage of the strong hand they’ve been dealt. And in the absence of any push back, even more aggression should be expected.

Obama has essentially given them carte blanche to intimidate their neighbors. Our foreign policy is a disaster.


9 posted on 05/07/2014 10:23:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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We spent years and billions of dollars trying to help Vietnam and keep the Chinese from taking them over. They thanked us by killing 55,000 Americans. I will worry about Vietnam when their leaders come to the United States and stand in front of the Pentagon and says to the news cameras, “We’re sorry! We were wrong! Please forgive us for being so stupid!”


10 posted on 05/07/2014 10:23:33 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I guess I hope they both lose. But I hope the V.Cong takes a bunch of them down before that.


11 posted on 05/07/2014 10:25:03 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Am I the only one getting a little concerned at the thumbing of noses from both China and Russia both?


12 posted on 05/07/2014 10:35:07 AM PDT by autumnraine
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No but there isn’t a whole lot we can do about it without getting rid of Obama and making serious changes in our entire government.

Personally I think Russia and China are working together to break us and Obama just sees his opportunity to bring us down to size.


13 posted on 05/07/2014 10:40:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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I wonder if Vietnam will kick China's butt again.

Waiting for the Sinos to come in and say China didn't get it's butt kicked...

5.56mm

14 posted on 05/07/2014 10:43:33 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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Is the Domino effect finally coming home to roost?


15 posted on 05/07/2014 10:50:26 AM PDT by DocJhn
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The Chinese would be far more dangerous if they had pursued a peaceful rollup of Southeast Asia. Using their money and military to pull countries under a protection/mutual gain umbrella (like we did with the rest of the world).

The path they've chosen is causing all their neighbors to arm to the teeth and to get into bed with us.
16 posted on 05/07/2014 10:51:22 AM PDT by Daus
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I've always wonder why the Chinese continually bully their neighbors.

It's as thought the concept of “playing nice” was not just foreign to them, but temperamentally impossible for them to comprehend. That old adage about getting more flies with honey than vinegar never seems to have occurred to them.

And they're supposed to be such a brilliant people.

17 posted on 05/07/2014 11:01:21 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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I guess I hope they both lose. But I hope the V.Cong takes a bunch of them down before that.

Not likely.If China moves in they won't tiptoe around like Washington ordered our guys to do.They'll come in with guns blazing.Unlike us they won't give a rat's hindquarters about casualties,military or civilian....Vietnamese or Chinese.

18 posted on 05/07/2014 11:07:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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Vietnam won the last war with China. Of course China didn’t give it 100%.


19 posted on 05/07/2014 11:19:25 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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So the Chicoms are doing in the region what Japan did to them in the 1930’s with the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, which is mercantilism & militarism combined.

No discussion yet about Vietnamese hatred for China which goes back thousands of years. For a thousand years Vietnam was a conquered province of the Han Chinese Empire, and it has been over a thousand years since the Vietnamese regained their independence from China, and that is as yet fresh in the collective memory of Vietnam.

Heard this while I was in Vietnam: while Ho Chi Minh & his Viet Minh were fighting the French after WWII, they received an offer of massive military aid from the newly established Communist Chinese regime of Mao Tse-tung.

His top general Vo Nguyen Giap recommended accepting the aid at once as it would tip the balance militarily. Ho Chi Minh exploded in anger:

“Are you out of your mind!!? I would rather smell French s*** for the next ten years than smell Chinese s*** for the next one thousand years!!”


20 posted on 05/07/2014 11:19:58 AM PDT by elcid1970
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