However, trade sanctions could wreck their shaky economy, so they won't go to war.
and this is actually about grabbing the natural gas reserves there. Under a previous Philippine president, they almost got an ok to steal these after a large bribe...luckily the press got hold of the story and it was stopped. The president now is a reformer and not bribable, although those around him are.
There is an election in a year or 2 so China will wait and see if the next President here can be persuaded to look the other way.
and check a map...getting control of these island could let them block air and sea lanes to Japan and Korea.
“There is an election in a year or 2 so China will wait and see if the next President here can be persuaded to look the other way.”
A little presumptuous, don’t you think? The world will never see a more incompetent paper tiger as Commander in Chief as they do now. And Beijing will forgo this golden opportunity and roll the dice on the next American administration? Why wait for a Cruz administration to awake the sleeping giant?
No, if China is truly planning to throw their newfound regional weight around, it is within the next 18 months.
Obama is a vile and (weak) incompetent creature, bowing and kowtowing before all the evil leaders and governments he himself tacitly admires because he believes just like them and desires that same control over free Americans,
That is to say - ‘weak’ except to a corrupted John Roberts and John Mccain and the Republican leadership, in which case he is a mighty and all knowing warrior to be at once feared and yet admired for his great power granted him from the MSM which they also worship and desire the same approval and attention and fear their disapproval should they at any time question that beast obamas demonic activities,