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| China claims U.S. destroyer 'driven off' | |
| 2016-02-01 | |
| [FREEBEACON] A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a second transit near a disputed South China Sea island claimed by China and two other nations, the Pentagon announced Saturday. China's Defense Ministry denounced the warship transit and said its forces had forced the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur out of the area.
"This operation challenged attempts by the three claimants, China, Taiwan and Vietnam, to restrict navigation rights and freedoms around the features they claim by policies that require prior permission or notification of transit within territorial seas," Urban said in a statement. The Wilbur, a guided missile destroyer, passed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island. "This operation was about challenging excessive maritime claims that restrict the rights and freedoms of the United States and others, not about territorial claims to land features," he added. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 This Tuesday AM ... * BUSINESS INSIDER@TWITTER > CHINA: US [unilaterally = forcibly?] PUSHING "MARITME HEGEMONY" BY WARSHIPS SAILING IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, in the name of "Freedom of Navigation" [FON]. China FM Spox LU KANG. * RELATED MANILA TIMES > CHINA SAYS US ISLAND SAIL-BY "DANGEROUS" AND "IRRESPONSIBLE", US VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF CHINA, VIETNAM, + INTERNATIONAL LAW. * NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW@TWITTER > SOUTH CHINA SEA WILL BE VIRTUALLY BE A "CHINESE LAKE" LIKE THE CARIBBEAN ANNDOR GULF OF MEXICO IS TO THE US | [Nikkei] IMPORTANT SHIPPING LANE COULD BECOME "CHINA'S CARIBBEAN". As long as POTUS OBama keeps the USN andor other USDOD outsdie of the 12-nm limites around China's claimed islands, China can ignore Obama's PCorrect-Deniable rants agz its activities in the SCS + STILL GET ITS ISLANDS, PLA-CAPABLE AIRFIELDS + SEAPORTS, + ULTIMATELY ITS "SOLE" CONTROL OF THE SCS. aNTI-US US POTUS OBAMA WILL STILL BE "CHINA'S MAN" [+ Russia's, Iran's, OWG Globies] IN WASHINGTON + WEST. ALL BETS ARE OFF IFF THE BAMMER SENDS IN THE USN-USDOD CLOSER TO CHINA'S CLAIMED ISLANDS INSIDE THE 12-NM LIMITS. I suspect that even iff the Bammer sends in the USN-USDOD closer to China's claimed islands than 12-nms, CHINA WILL STILL SEEMINGLY "WIN" ANY MIL OR MILPOL CONFRONTATION AGZ THE USA. Ditto as per Russia + Iran. ---------- Meanwhile, HARLEY QUINN = "SUICIDE SQUAD" Fans, over in the EAST CHINA SEA [ECS] ... * BHARAT RAKSHAK > WHY A STABLE BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA CALLS FOR A RESURGENT JAPAN - BRAHMA CHELLANEY, HUFFINGTON POST [HuffPo]. The easier or simpler way to argue is that ANti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama has put the Pert, MSM-Net verified "Weak/declining" US on the path of unilateral or asymmteric worldwide strategic fallback or [self] retreat, BY FOR + IN THE NAME OF RIGHEOUS US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER, HENCE THE VOLUNTARILY EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER-SOON-TO-BE-JUST-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWERS, 1990'S CLINTONIAN THIS-IS-AMERIKA-NOT-AMERICA USA NEEDS "OFFSETS" CAPABLE OF LOCALLY OR REGIONALLY COUNTER-BALANCING AGZ ITS OWG CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE CHINA. * SNAFU/FUBAR = CHINA sees Nippon as a "Partner State [also read,, Vassal State], NOT AS A MILPOL OR GEOPOL = OWG CO-SUPERPOWER "EQUAL" PAR WID CHINA FOR "SOLE", PRINCIPAL, OR "SHARED" LEADERSHIP OF OWG-NWO + PERTINENT GLOBAL FED UNION(S) IN EAST ASIA-WESTPAC/PACIFIC. * FYI GLOBALNATION.PH > JAPAN AID AGENCY [JICA] SEEKS MINDANAO DEVELOPMENT PLAN [Wid or] WIDOUT BBL. Wehell, iff CHINA does not attack the Northern PH in order to dter or preempt US Intervening Milfors in any Local-Regional war agz US Allies, CHINA MAY STILL ATTACK THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES TO DEFEAT JAPAN'S INFLUENCE OR PRESENCE THERE. * MANILA LIVEWIRE@TWITTER > TOP TEN SAFEST PLACES IN THE PHILIPPINES IN CASE WAR WID CHINA BREAKS OUT. Artic read, WHEN CHINESE BULLETS, BOMBERS, + MISSLES START FLYING OVER MANILA, HEAD TO THE SOUTHERN PH. Is the Artic's Author sure of that - see all the Above. MANILA TIMES > MILF WILL NO LONGER SURRENDER FIREARMS, as they have all but lost any hope that the BBL will be passed by the PH Govt-Congress in Manila. GOOD NEWS FOR CHINA + PLA, AS THE MOROS MAY CAPTURE OR BEHEAD ANYONE FLEEING FROM LUZON INTO CENTRAL + MINDANAO TRYING TO ESCAPE THE PLA'S ATTACKS. DARE THE ISIS/ISIL + AL-NUSRA + AQ IN INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, ETAL. BE THERE??? Iff Obama's post-Jan 2017 POTUS Succesor is another covert Anti-US US OWG Globalist, 'tis likely safe to say the US will be the one thats NOT there - BEST YOU CAN SAY IS THAT THE USDOD WILL HAD BEEN DEPLOYED + IS WATCHING NEARBY, BUT WON'T ACTUALLY OR PHYSICALLY INTERVENE WIDOUT FINAL WH ORDERS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-01 23:16 |
| #3 I think they should send Mister Ed next time. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-02-01 15:05 |
| #2 I think we need to dredge up an island in the area and see what the Chinese have to say about it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-02-01 02:32 |
| #1 As long as the USN stays outside the 12-nm limits to China's claimed islands, China will get both its islands + airfields - I'll start worrying when the USN begins moving in closer than 12-nms to China's islands becuz then all bets are off as to how Beijing will respond. * JAPAN TIMES > CHINA'S [increasingly aggressive?] RISK TOLERANCE EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS AMID FALTERING US REBALANCE IN ASIA, STUDY SAYS. IOW, the Perts knew Beijing could be MilPol assertive or aggressive, JUST NOT THIS ASSERTIVE OR AGGRESSIVE THIS SOON??? * YAHOO NEWS > US WEIGHS MAKING HAWAII MISSLE TEST SITE [multi-]OPERATIONAL. i.e. de facto ABM-BMD-capable. In case CHINA'S + NOKOR'S + GLOBAL CALIPHATE'S LR ICBMS + SLBMS + TLCMS get past Guam-WESTPAC. * TOPIX, INQUISITR > BEIJING'S "GREAT POWER" [Global Power] STRUGGLE TO PREVENT US CONTAINMENT IN ASIA COULD LEAD TO MAJOR CHINA-US WAR, OR [Chinese = Beijing's] LOSS OF FACE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-01 02:26 |