Posted on 09/12/2019 7:39:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Given Chinas position as a classic Asian land power and Americas role as an oceanic hegemon, a military challenge has emerged in the near seas close to China through which the essentials of modern industrial power flow oil, to name just one. That means the control of the South China Sea is the next step in the establishment of a New Chinese Empire. As in 1938, when Poland lay between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army, the Philippines is the weak point between the U.S. and China.
It is common knowledge that America intends to ring the South China Sea with putative allies -- South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Vietnam. A goal of our foreign policy is to unite these countries into a defensive cordon. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party seems to be doing what it can to antagonize the neighbors. Its Nine Dash Line ocean aggrandizement, the militarization of shoals and reefs, the bald-faced, brute-force stealing of ocean resources, all should make clear that China is not a good neighbor.
American diplomatic efforts to solidify the front-line countries into a balancing force rely on their basic self-interests as we see them. Our allies sometimes have different views and see complications that Americans may forget. Increasing military cooperation between the Japanese and the South Koreans faces a long history of antagonisms and bitterness, including the literal rape-rape of the WWII comfort women. The Vietnamese still remember what we did to try to prevent the current Communist regime from taking over the country. Pieces of B-52s downed during the Christmas Raids of 1972 still adorn public parks in Hanoi.
The country with the most difficult decision to make is the Philippines. The key fact here is that the Philippines is the weakest link in the cordon.
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And its Catholic like Poland.
One look at that map and you realize how nonsensical Chinas claims are. But other than a shooting war, there is really no way to stop them.
On second thought, there is another way to stop them: High tariffs on Chinese imports until they start to behave.
The women are beautiful. Marry one and you can’t go wrong.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
The are like Russian women- pretty when young but most morph into their grandmothers on their 30th birthday. Beauty fades with any woman though and most Filipinas I have known were very sweet people, so I wouldn’t disagree that they would make good marriage material.
It’s seems the name “South China Sea” has provided China with a flimsy excuse for invasion.
Let’s start calling that body of water the “South Asian Sea”.
> Its seems the name South China Sea has provided China with a flimsy excuse for invasion. <
Ive read that China has a very old map that shows the South China Sea as Chinese territory. And that is the basis for the current Chinese claims.
Flimsy indeed.
By the way, I recently found in my basement a map. It shows that my family owns all of China north of the Yangtze river. I wonder if China will honor this claim.
“Lets start calling that body of water the South Asian Sea.”
How about the Americo-Philippine Sea?
That will piss them off.
Russian women dont gently glide downhill when they age, they fall off a cliff.
So just replace them as they get over the hill. There are millions available.
Actually, the local press tends to call that body of water the West Philippine Sea.
(Possibly at some peril to continued good relations between China and the Philippines)
Lumpia !
First I look at the pur ...... mama.
Showed my wife how we folded and rolled our socks, underwear and etc in the mid sixties Army and ....
My sock drawer et al is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
I made no request nor demand, just showed and on her own, she picked up on it.
> Russian women dont gently glide downhill when they age, they fall off a cliff. <
Old Soviet joke.
To bring in more money for the state, Brezhnev orders that a strip club be opened up in Moscow. But it fails miserably. So Brezhnev calls in the club manager for answers.
Brezhnev: Comrade manager, why has the club failed? Was it the music?
Manager: No, sir. We only played the latest hits.
Brezhnev: Then maybe it was the alcohol.
Manager: No, sir. We served only the finest vodka.
Brezhnev: Then it had to be the dancers.
Manager: No. We selected them carefully. To be hired, a dancer had to be a party member for at least 40 years.
The Philippines is almost uniquely vulnerable to any power in a position to threaten interdiction via sea and sky. It is a bunch of islands that cannot even maintain its internal economy without seaborne and airborne trade.
Besides the Chinese navy, China has @ 600 fighter-bombers and other aircraft with the range, from South China/Hainan, to paralyze the Philippine domestic economy and shut off its international exports and imports.
The Philippines can be brought to its knees in a few months without a single Chinese soldier setting foot on it, though it would be entirely feasible for China to seize an island or two, which would not be too difficult as, without air/naval superiority, the Philippine armed forces would be unable to reinforce the local island forces. The other problem with the Philippines, strategically, is that any land position can be outflanked by an amphibious landing. Its got endless beaches. Without sufficient air/naval forces or a superpower to provide these, reliably, resistance is futile.
What the Phils most badly needs strategically is a modern air-defense system and air force that can credibly threaten high casualties to a Chinese air and naval attack. I figure this will cost, at minimum, @$50Billion, and at least $10Billion in annual operating costs.
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