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| Will retaliate if offended by US, warns China Gen |
| 2010-08-13 |
| A Chinese General on Friday termed as "flagrant provocation" US plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea and said the country would retaliate if "offended". "A country needs respect, so does a military. We will retaliate if we are offended," Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences, wrote in an editorial in the PLA Daily. The US is "pushing its security boundary to the doorstep of others -- the Yellow Sea, South China Sea and so on," Luo said. China had in the recent weeks voice its firm opposition to activities of foreign military vessels or planes in the Yellow Sea and China's coastal waters, saying they undermine it security interests. Despite China's warning, the US insists on sending the carrier 'USS George Washington', he said. The General was reacting to remarks by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the carrier will always go into international waters. China is developing a new missile called Dong Feng 21D, that could |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 China sees a weakness in Obumbles and is taking a chance. If it wins and bumbles bows - it gets to have the yellow sea as its own backyard pool if bumbles actually does something it has little to loose. Bumbles already stumbled when he moved the war games out of the yellow sea. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-08-13 21:44 |
| #1 IOW, CHINA is demanding pro forma recognition of the YELLOW SEA + ALL OF THE CHINA SEAS AS ITS SOLE "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE" [no foreigners allowed]. * See also YONHAP/TOPIX + PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > NORTH KOREA THREATENS "REAL WAR" [Nukulaar-like = use of its nuclear deterrence] AS TENSIONS MOUNT AT SEA. and * GLOBAL TIMES.CN + SAME > THE CHINESE PEOPLE WILL NOT STAND FOR US NAVAL PROVOCATIONS. versus * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [GlobalResearch.ca]US MILITARY BUILDUP ON CHINESE, IRANIAN, + RUSSIAN BORDERS [ + NATO Expansion outside of Western Europe-EU]. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM/OTHER > RUSSIA INSULTS JAPAN EVEN AS IT SEEKS PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP, despite doubling, etc. increased in All Nippon-specific investments in Russia + other BIlateral ventures. * STRATGYPAGE > JAPAN REWRITES WORLD WAR II. IMO ARTIC > should be aka HOW THE US ATOMIC BOMBINGS AGZ JAPAN SAVED US + CIVILIAN + JAPANESE LIVES. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-13 21:21 |