[RomanSoldier19]

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[mylife]

The world disagrees xi

[butlerweave]

Oh no they’re going to Cry

[central_va]

Go ahead PLN, shoot a torp at a US warship. See what happens next.

[DoughtyOne]

It’s about free passage on the high seas China.

I know that concept doesn’t come to you naturally, but it is
a policy that has been active on the high seas for hundreds
of years.

It has been internationally recognized. Sorry you guys are living in the mid last millennium.

[puppypusher]

Yea!By allowing China to take control of the entire South and East China seas we’re inciting confrontation.

What the hell do they think their doing?

[puppypusher]

“Yea!By allowing China to take control of the entire South and East China seas we’re inciting confrontation.

What the hell do they think their doing?”

That should have read By not allowing China to take control of the entire South and East China seas we’re inciting confrontation.

[crz]

Is it time for another Castle Bravo test?

WTF? We just blew a GD big hole where they had their little island!

[daniel1212]

A statement posted on the website of China's embassy in Washington, D.C., accused the U.S. of "flexing muscles" over a situation in which it was not directly involved.

Pure sophistry, accusing the US of what China is guilty of - "flexing muscles." If the US did not use its muscles in a situation in which it was not directly involved then the world would be mostly speaking German and Japanese. And while US China political policy was faulty and failed, yet it did provide substantial aid to a divisive country whose..

Nationalist army was ill-equipped to fight the Japanese in 1941. Its arsenals were so lacking in nonferrous metals and explosives that they could not produce effectively. The maintenance of millions of ill-trained and under-equipped troops was a heavy drain on the economy. (https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Civil-war-1945-49) President Roosevelt approved $25 million in military aid to China on 19 December 1940, permitting the Chinese to purchase one hundred P 40 pursuit aircraft. By late spring 1941, the United States had also earmarked over $145 million in lend-lease funds for China to acquire both ground and air equipment. (https://history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.HTM)

[Steely Tom]

I set up an armed checkpoint on your street, right in front of your driveway. Then when you call the police and show up in force, I accuse you of ‘inciting a confrontation.’