Posted on 05/19/2016 6:13:15 PM PDT by Celerity
BEIJING China's attempts to claim a nearly 1.4-million-square-mile swathe of open ocean are without precedent and probably without legal merit, but Beijing continues to assert its right to the economically critical zone and increasingly puts its claims in military terms.
Speaking to a small group of reporters in Beijing on Thursday, a high-ranking Chinese official made his warning clear: The United States should not provoke China in the South China Sea without expecting retaliation.
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Hitler could have launched a huge chemical strike at the end of WWII. Even he didn’t do it.
The Philippines president is a socialist with many Communists in his cabinet. He leans China pretty hard. Wants bilateral negotiations with China without U.S. involvement.
The only good another war, a war with China, could give America is an End-to-City-Centric-Power-Politics in the United States; e.g., they do not nuke corn fields, but rather raze cities. Could we end welfare? Could we break the back of Black Racist Power? Could we beg China to nuke the largest city’s in Democratic party hands. I can envision a world where after a war, the United States is devoid of Socialists and Democrats in any politically meaningful numbers. Maybe Trump can make a deal to nuke SF, LA, Chicago, Huston, Philly, Seattle, Madison... got to keep Cleveland though;)
There will never be a nuke launched in anger by a nation state. We could however get nuked by a rouge NGO after the collapse of a nuclear govt. Think Pakistan.
I think it was a signal to the U.S. that we can be hit. Who knows, but China is much stronger today than a decade ago.
It is also very real that China would go after our satellites, infrastructure. It won't be as sanitary as it has been in decades past. It's a different world.
China is the only one stiring up conflict in the South China Sea.
You no worry Yankee. You behave and you go shop. Get poonjab doggie yum yums. Wife and you like. Be proud. Be happy.
Never doesn’t exist in this world. The Chinese are preparing for the big war.
That’s my guess too.
I realize PRC is ready to defend their faux-islands...
no question about that imho
but I think they are doing all they can to delay any hostilities... as they are building great military power while Obama is still disassembling and crippling USA’s ability to fight or defend anything much at all
I am not weighing the balance .. I am only noting that time continues to be on PRC”s side
Of course. They have to make a major move south. The Northern Hemisphere is slipping back into the ice age. The US and it’s allies will be caught as flat footed as Pearl Harbor residents. Perhaps even worse since we appear to be dismantling our defensive forces and preparing for Bobo’s Warming. We have perhaps the dumbest leaders in our history right now.
Stop terrorism with one of these, and more if necessary to save American lives.
You ever hear of the countries called Tibet and Korea ?
Korea wasn’t an invasion by the Chinese, they just helped the Norks. Tibet was a genuine invasion, and that happened way back in 1959. If you’re counting, that’s 57 years ago.
Guess how long ago the last time the US invaded another country was?
Just curious... do you ever reflect on the consequences of the actions you advocate?
By the way, that question wasn’t just rhetorical. I’d estimate not one in ten thousand Americans know when the last time the US govt invaded another nation was. I’m curious if you are aware of the most recent invasion.
Do you condone this behavior:
So you want to nuke Iran because 9/11?
No.
Have you ever actually experienced a terrorist attack?
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