Posted on 05/25/2015 7:29:31 AM PDT by DFG
Philippine military and commercial aircraft will keep flying over disputed areas in the South China Sea despite Chinese warnings over the airspace, President Benigno Aquino said on Monday.
"We will still fly the routes that we fly based on the international law from the various conventions we entered into," Aquino told reporters when asked whether the Philippines accepted China's position.
The Chinese military last week ordered a US Navy P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane away from airspace above the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea.
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Have the Chinese claimed the Hawaiian Islands violate there sovereignty yet?
Like the Japanese did they will buy them outright with our own money.
leading Chinese newspaper said today that the war with the United States is inevitable if we keep poking our nose into the Chinese sea business.
Get a nuke and China will leave you alone.
That goes for Vietnam too.
China’s military build-up leaves her neighbors no choice.
In days of old, the US could be counted on to defend freedom. Beijing sees the paper tiger we have become, and will surely act accordingly.
Give Taiwan 2 Ohio class subs with full nuclear compliment and all of this ends.
The Chinese claim the Spratly Islands based on some old map. So just give them time to "find" some old map showing that Hawaii was once part of China.
We should go over there and use it for target practice.
There is precedent in international law that nations have a responsibility to keep waters clear of navigation hazards when they find them.
If any of us were to build a floating barge or something, the Coast Guard or the Navy would come in and blow it up unless we had permits with all the navigation lights required by International law.
My understanding is, this artificial island is right by the shipping lanes.
Red China bought & paid for our government decades ago (probably when we stopped referring to them as “Red China” and sent our manufacturing jobs there).
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