China not pleased with the US providing its input regarding the South China Sea
The Philippines ran The Sierra Madre aground on one of the disputed areas in the South China Sea. They kept a contingent of soldiers on the ship to help maintain the Philippine’s claims to this area. Recently, while the Filipinos were replenishing the servicemembers on this ship, the Chinese Coast Guard fired water cannons at them. This incident, as well as others, has the Philippines joining with other countries in the area debating with the Chinese over control over locations in the South China Sea. The U.S. has a treaty obligation with the Philippines that could result in the U.S. being dragged into hot conflict.
From The Guardian:
An international row is growing between the Philippines, the US and China over a rusting ship that has been turned into a crucial military outpost in the South China Sea.
The dilapidated second world war-era ship was deliberately run aground on a tiny reef in the South China Sea in 1999 by the Philippines, and a small contingent of troops continue to stay on board to stake the country’s claim in the highly disputed water.
The strategically important South China Sea is subject to competing territorial claims by China and south-east Asian countries, and is considered a potential flashpoint.
Tensions have intensified under the current Philippine president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, with the country increasingly accusing China of aggression and pursuing closer ties with the US, with which it has a mutual defence treaty.
On Saturday, China provoked condemnation from the Philippines, the US, the EU, France, Japan and Australia after its coastguard directed water cannon at a Philippine coastguard vessel. The Philippines was trying to deliver food, water, fuel and other supplies to its troops stationed in the grounded ship, the BRP Sierra Madre, on Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands.
China has since repeated its demands for the rusting ship to be removed, while China’s embassy in Manila has accused Washington of “inciting and supporting the Philippines attempts to overhaul and reinforce” BRP Sierra Madre, and of rallying its allies “to persistently sensationalise the South China Sea issue”.
The Guardian provides the balance of the story here.
Category: China, International Affairs, Pentagon
Here we go again
“Weak men -> hard times” comes to mind
Chicoms gonna Chicom.
We should start drumming up support for Philippines’ descension into NAT0.
It’s the only way to be sure…
But first they need a reason to be attacked by ‘hostile’ countries. What’s Hunter up to? Can we get him and CeeDeeCee to build bioweapons labs in Vigan Bay, we’ll call it The Totally Not-Ethnic-Chinese-Specific Flu Facility.
If anyone asks questions about why all the nations on earth act in concert when something ‘accidentally’ ‘leaks’ out of the ‘health’ ‘lab’ we’ll call them bigots and racists.
No one will suspect a thing! /s
The MIC will never be satiated.
It’s not like China is being unreasonable and claiming everything. Here is the map:
Here is the map with other countries and English some places settled by Maritime Law and the UN:
Basically, China says everything belongs to them. I imagine the plan is to harass one neighbor at a time and pick them off one by one.
Divide and conquer is a proven strategy
Map #2 shows what looks like an angry face and right below it looks like someone paddling or bailing out a small boat.
Lebensraum… we’ve seen this before.
They shoot water cannons, we shoot paintballs.
Non-lethal, but stings like hell.
China knows it can take whatever it wants to and the bought and paid for globalists aren’t going to do a damn thing. I’m not really concerned about what the Chinese Communists are doing in that area as much as I am concerned about what their sleeper agents are doing here. I also DGAF what the Chinese Communists think. PHUQUE ’em, we gonna have to fight them eventually if not sooner, might as well be sooner than later. “Nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.” A wise woman said that.
Prepare.
War with China is coming, just a question of when.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/xi-jinping-likely-to-bring-war-to-the-west-says-prominent-china-hawk-he-will-end-up-acquiring-taiwan-by-force/ar-AA1f4iX3
All maps list it as the “South China Sea”, which is why China claims it.
Solution: Rename to “No Longer The South China Sea”.
Hold the applause, just throw money. 😜
“South China Sea”
Shakespeare asked “What’s in a name?”. China says “proof of ownership”. Pretty simple, actually.
Same reason the Arabs call the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Gulf.
Their maps also have a curious unnamed dark spot on them along the coast of the Med near Palestine, South of Lebanon. I don’t know who lives there but I think it must be Sauron.
Now that doesn’t look like “Lovers Island” as the Blu Jays sang it in 1961 on the Milestone label.
This old map might explain why the Peoples’ Republic of China wants to control the South China Sea. It is all about the oil routes to the Republic of China, South Korea, and Japan.
https://tinyurl.com/asiaVLCCroutes
Bingo!
Just for giggles I went to google maps and looked at the satellite picture of the shoal. The ship is on the far NW quadrant of the shoal.
It is. Quite reasonable for the Philippines to claim the place, even if within the PRC’s nine-dash “cow tongue” line:
Seems to me that MacArthur was right…
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/rise-china-vindicates-macarthur-166299
Remind me again which party the president that removed him and prevented him from putting a stop to this shit before it really got started belonged to…. Even if ya don’t know, it won’t be a difficult guess…
Did major grad school work on the Chicom threat we see now in ’95, got a “that’s nice”-type response and a shrug. “Aw, they’ll never… ” is the default human response.
FDR should have left him in the Philippines.