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Ex-Trump national security adviser accuses Xi Jinping of staging the 'biggest land grab in history' in the South China Sea as controversial Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing
The Daily Mail ^ | 02/06/2022 | Elizabeth Elkind

Posted on 02/06/2022 2:44:57 PM PST by thegagline

Donald Trump's former national security adviser on Sunday accused Beijing of staging the 'biggest land grab in history' with its territorial encroachment on the South China Sea.

Beijing has laid claim to a vast majority of the waters there, and China's aggressive buildup in military presence and increased exercises in the region has served to alarm and anger US allies there as well as American officials at home.

Retired Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster made the stark warning about an increasingly 'aggressive' China after troublesome technical issues led to his appearance on CBS News' Face The Nation to be delayed by nearly half an hour.

Meanwhile, the 2022 Winter Olympics are currently underway in China with the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania all staging diplomatic boycotts of the games over government's human rights abuses.

During his Sunday interview the general, who served in Donald Trump's White House from 2017 to 2018, reiterated that China is trying to expand its claim on the South China Sea and was 'weaponizing' islands in the area to do it.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; china
Stolen elections have consequences. China’s land grab, with the full support of Biden, has only just begun
1 posted on 02/06/2022 2:44:57 PM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

I remember it very clearly - in 2009, when America was distracted by Obamacare, his American-hating, and Obama’s woke puppet show, China grabbed all the Spratly and Paracel islands it wanted, and had bunkers and airstrips built within 12 months. It happened very quickly.

Not a peep from the corrupt MSM while it was going on.


2 posted on 02/06/2022 2:51:31 PM PST by PGR88
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To: thegagline

Jesus....where was his whining when China was BUILDING islands in the South China Sea, and encroaching even further towards Taiwan?


3 posted on 02/06/2022 2:52:29 PM PST by Salty Longshanks
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To: PGR88

I admire the Chinese and Russians, they don’t screw around. Unless we destroy the evil ones soon, one or both of the countries are going to be our masters. I think China is well on they now.


4 posted on 02/06/2022 3:08:21 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: thegagline

How is this a “claim”? It’s a fact.


5 posted on 02/06/2022 3:12:22 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: thegagline

Mcmasterbater.


6 posted on 02/06/2022 3:13:28 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: thegagline

And McMaster is banging the war drum... to make money in mil-industrial on flawed extended “engagements”— when decisive actions will shut these f’rs down by just waiting for their imminent collapse and stop sucking US dollars out of the country.


7 posted on 02/06/2022 3:37:58 PM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: thegagline

No to mention Chinese money buying up America


8 posted on 02/06/2022 3:51:08 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Salty Longshanks
where was his whining when China was BUILDING islands in the South China Sea

We had to get the Orange man out at all costs so we could put the adults [Dementia Joe, Distaff Jill, Klain, Sullivan, Blinken, Austin] in charge to deal with issue like this.

9 posted on 02/06/2022 4:02:05 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: thegagline

>>US, UK, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia and Lithuania all staging diplomatic boycotts of the games over government’s human rights abuses.<<

Good grief! US, UK, Au, Canada are currently abusing its citizens human rights. Remove the log from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from anothers.


10 posted on 02/06/2022 4:49:10 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: PGR88

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser on Sunday accused Beijing of staging the ‘biggest land grab in history’ with its territorial encroachment on the Western Pacific
now known as the East China Sea.

Hawaii now Chinese internal matter...US not interfere
in China internal affairs!!!


11 posted on 02/06/2022 5:31:52 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Think of the upside in this:

We dump two Dem Senators, two Dem Representatives, AND Obama’s new mansion!


12 posted on 02/06/2022 5:33:18 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nascarnation

But think of the pineapple and the poi we will miss.
Still it would be worth it if Hillary was visiting the
Obamas when it happened.


13 posted on 02/06/2022 5:38:13 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: thegagline

When does the U.S. start building islands in international waters around allies in the Pacific? Turnabout being fair play and all that.


14 posted on 02/06/2022 5:40:41 PM PST by rgr393
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