[skeeter]

Other interested nations - Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia - need to step up and send their ships through these waters, as well.

Its more in their interests than it is our’s.

[Capt. Tom]

“If the US encroaches on China’s core interests, the Chinese military will stand up and use force to stop it,” the paper warned.

I would hope one of our first ships through their claimed territorial waters would be a mine sweeper. -Tom

[Hot Tabasco]

What’s behind Beijing’s drive to control the South China Sea?

Oil and fish.....

[ETL]

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014

China and Russia to build major seaport: report

China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia’s Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses’ growing alliance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036
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Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon
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[butlerweave]

China sends Army and the folks back home take over ,Hmmm

[Mariner]

This is little more than bluff and bluster by Chinese media in the hopes the USN will not humiliate them in front of the world.

But there is really nothing the Chinese can do to stop us.