Posted on 07/06/2020 9:29:33 AM PDT by silent majority rising
The US sent two carrier groups to the South China Sea in a show of force intended to intimidate China in its aggressive takeover of a disputed archipelago. China responded by boasting of its wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons, claiming that the mega-warships operated at the pleasure of the PLA [Peoples Liberation Army]. The response by the US Navy was short and to the point: Not intimidated.
The decision to send the two nuclear-powered carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan, into the South China Sea for dual-carrier operations and exercises was bound to ruffle the feathers of the Chinese government. This is the first time since 2014 that two carriers have been in the region and China is currently conducting a five-day drill around the Paracel Islands.
The Paracel Islands, essentially an archipelago, is a group of 130 islands approximately equidistant from the coastlines of the Peoples Republic of China and Vietnam and also in proximity to the Philippines. The archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and a seabed with potential, but as yet unexplored, oil and gas reserves. As such, they have long been the focus of a dispute between the three countries.
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Please read my post number 80, thanks
What if the dam was built for the purpose of being destroyed at the right time? Depopulation is part of the plan for the new world order.
China's been trying to reduce the number of people since Mao. Build the dam. Let it fail. Move the important people out first. New World Order is on track.
You don’t think that China has a MAD(Mutually Assured Destruction) arrangement like the Russians have?
Don’t threaten an oriental. They don’t like to lose face.
Or you may expect another virus to waft in our direction.
And a MAJOR problem they have had, for at least the last few weeks, is massive flooding and the increased potential that the Three Gorges Dam could burst (<-- A must view/listen.) and threaten hundreds of millions of people.
Flooding below China's Three Gorges raises questions about dam
Massive flooding seen above and below the Three Gorges Dam is putting its purpose and stability into question.
Torrential rainfall over the past several days has brought disastrous flooding to 26 provinces in China, endangering more than 10 million people. Thus far, 13 rivers in Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangxi, and other areas have seen extensive flooding, and with more rain predicted, severe flood warnings have been issued for these rivers, including the Yangtze well into Monday (June 29).
According to the Hong Kong Economic Times, China's Ministry of Emergency Management said that this year's floods have affected 26 provinces and 11.22 million people. At present, the Yangtze River Basin has entered the main flood season, which is a "critical stage" for flood control.
It would makes sense, especially in this sense:
Both Russia && the U.S. would want to prevent China from taking over Siberia. In exchange for siding with the Russians against the Chinese, the U.S. should be given resource development rights, leased for a certain period of time anyway.
Why China Will Reclaim Siberia
Updated January 13, 2015, 11:54 AM...
, justifying a Chinese takeover of Siberia. Of course, Russia's Asian hinterland isn't really empty (and neither was Palestine). But Siberia is as resource-rich and people-poor as China is the opposite. The weight of that logic scares the Kremlin.
Moscow recently restored the Imperial Arch in the Far Eastern frontier town of Blagoveshchensk, declaring: The earth along the Amur was, is and always will be Russian. But Russia's title to all of the land is only about 150 years old. And the sprawl of highrises in Heihe, the Chinese boomtown on the south bank of the Amur, right across from Blagoveshchensk, casts doubt on the always will be part of the old czarist slogan.
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The border, all 2,738 miles of it, is the legacy of the Convention of Peking of 1860 and other unequal pacts between a strong, expanding Russia and a weakened China after the Second Opium War.
The 1.35 billion Chinese people south of the border outnumber Russia's 144 million almost 10 to 1. The discrepancy is even starker for Siberia on its own, home to barely 38 million people, and especially the border area, where only 6 million Russians face over 90 million Chinese. With intermarriage, trade and investment across that border, Siberians have realized that, for better or for worse, Beijing is a lot closer than Moscow.
The vast expanses of Siberia would provide not just room for China's huddled masses, now squeezed into the coastal half of their country by the mountains and deserts of western China. The land is already providing China, the factory of the world, with much of its raw materials, especially oil, gas and timber. Increasingly, Chinese-owned factories in Siberia churn out finished goods, as if the region already were a part of the Middle Kingdom's economy.
What’s going to happen... your best guess.
However, it's only a matter of time before that damn has a major problem.
Weather (/p) it's this flood season, or 5-10 years from now, there will be catastrophic loss of life when it goes.
They won't be able to claim the western consultants brought in mid completion were racists then, as they did when the consultants said there were major design/construction problems.
lol.
It appears Chinese ‘leadership’ is more like Black Lives Matter’ - more concerned with ‘how they look’ than with the citizens they’re pretending to protect.
Chinese looking for someone to blame - rather than finding ways to avert the coming disaster is shocking to decent people. Seems it’s the norm for the world’s thugs.
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