Posted on 03/21/2021 7:23:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine defense chief on March 21 demanded that more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila, saying their presence was a “provocative action of militarizing the area.”
“We call on the Chinese to stop this incursion and immediately recall these boats violating our maritime rights and encroaching into our sovereign territory,” defense minister Delfin Lorenzana said.
Authorities said the Philippines coast guard had reported that about 220 vessels, believed to be manned by Chinese maritime militia personnel, were seen moored on March 7 at Whitsun Reef, which Manila calls Julian Felipe Reef.
Foreign minister Teodoro Locsin, when asked whether he would file a diplomatic protest over the boats, told a journalist on Twitter: “Only if the generals tell me. In my watch, foreign policy is the fist in the iron glove of the armed forces.”
The vessels are fishing boats believed to be manned by Chinese military-trained personnel, according to Philippines security officials.
The vessels’ presence in the area raises concern about overfishing and the destruction of the marine environment, as well as risks to safe navigation, a Philippine cross-government task force said late on March 20.
China’s foreign ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on March 21, while calls to the Chinese embassy in Manila seeking comment went unanswered.
An international tribunal invalidated China’s claim to 90 percent of the South China Sea in 2016, but Beijing doesn’t recognize the ruling. The Chinese regime has built islands in the disputed waters in recent years, putting airstrips on some of them.
Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei all claim parts of the sea.
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Biden will “recommend” Philippines give the reef to China. After all, Biden owes China for getting elected
An overwhelming and ominous show of unconventional power. Fishing vessels manned by paramilitary forces squatting on a weak US ally.
How do you respond to this? Board them to seize them....quite the fight, eh? It would look like a Romano-Carthagenian flashback.
Sink them? An act of war against “unarmed” civilian vessels.
After the Alaska fiasco, the ChiComs are crashing Slow Joe’s OODA loop. Look for more of these types of asynchronous and asymmetrical passive aggressive moves everywhere until Joe shows belly and folds.
Then what will South Korea, Japan, and the Aussies think if we do not back the Philippines with more than best wishes.
Not good at all.
How about we sell South Korea, Japan and the Aussies all the weapons they need and they start building a mutual defense with the other Asian Pacific nations and stop depending on the US to defend them? Not one drop of American blood should be shed for these countries.
Biden will send navy ships to assist China in it’s expansionist policies. Unless Philippines sends a few millions to Hunter.
There already was a meeting of those 3 plus nuclear armed India to look into a defense treaty of sorts.
A couple decades late, but better late than never.
As long as all the vessels are moored together, not much can be done, but, at the same time, moored together, those vessels are not doing much. I assume they will eventually deploy to fish. The Filipinos have limited resources, but, even their Coast Guard can grab a fishing boat at the edge of the fleet. It would just be too bad if a US destroyer happened to meander between the grabbed boat and the rest of the Chinese fleet. IF Biden will allow it.
Duterte likes to talk tough, but he’s been a wimp toward China, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
China and Iran will be binding soon...
They will seize more islands.
Little green men.
Just like Russia took Crimea.
And give China deniability.
Still not clear that Biden is a Globalist hack and a tool of China?
Some dare call this TREASON!!
BETTER WATCH THIS HAIR-RAISING 38 MINUTES WITH GENERAL JACK KEANE. (The first 10 minutes will do it!)
https://www.brighteon.com/dc01dabc-87f6-45d2-b272-fa02022371d1
...and so it begins?
Less than 100 miles from Palawan (which Communist China also claims)
That’s like the distance from Milwaukee to Chicago for those geographically impaired
How many Chinese container cargo/warships are off the coast of California waiting to unload?
China’s entire ‘assults’ are all about winning through intimidation and coersion....similar to Cloven Piven the Demorats use.
Opps Cloward Piven.HAHAHA!
Bkmk
“They all hate us,anyhow,
So let’s drop the big one now.
Let’s drop the big one now.”
from “Political Science” by Randy Newman
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