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2022-08-28 China-Japan-Koreas

US Coast Guard cutter denied entry into Solomon Islands port sparking concerns of China's growing influence

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 Oh no! You mean China is using kindness to persuade long-forgotten countries that America treats like shit to be on their side? How wrong this is! They will service our needs and like it! And we'll talk down to them about human rights! Because that's how our diplomats do business!

I sense a John Bolton-planned coup in the near future.

Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-28 01:19|| 2022-08-28 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh no, my dear Tiny Jeater6933. China has been using predatory lending and slave labour to gain control of trade and shipping depots amd raw material resources all over the world — but even before Covid the world was starting to take notice and repudiate their efforts. After Covid the process has accelerated.

It isn’t a new process, this locking in of developing nations to debt servitude for financial and resource farming — look up the relations between England and Persia since the latter part of the 16th century — but China’s targets are quicker to realize the plan than in earlier generations.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-28 01:54|| 2022-08-28 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 "A United States Coast Guard cutter conducting patrols on an international mission in the Pacific Ocean...."

Still kind of funny that the USCG is far away from the coast of the US. Besides, isn't the USCG subordinate to DHS nowadays (unless in time of "war")?

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-08-28 03:10|| 2022-08-28 03:10|| Front Page Top

Appears much is being forgotten. Those now in Washington will say and do absolutely nothing.

I hope Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Auzzie PM Tony Albanese are taking careful notes.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-28 07:24|| 2022-08-28 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 We have political ties with the former American trust territories, now the Federated States of Micronesia. As such, the Coast Guard operates with local agencies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-28 07:43|| 2022-08-28 07:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Curiously, I was reminded of The Sand Pebbles.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-28 07:44|| 2022-08-28 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I suppose if we have a TW, we must have a TJ for balance.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-28 07:45|| 2022-08-28 07:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Guadalcanal? No, we paid for that already.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-28 08:12|| 2022-08-28 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 ...and don't say Guadalcanal Diary. Unless you want the feebs to come knockin'...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-28 08:14|| 2022-08-28 08:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Low hanging fruit ...they were cheap to bribe.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-28 12:42|| 2022-08-28 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 I' sorry but Guadalcanal! Seriously, among places to which our grandfathers put PAID IN FULL, those people refused an American Warship access? A whole group of locals need massive bitch-slapping!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-28 14:52|| 2022-08-28 14:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Is it common to deny a ship entry to a port? I remember during the cold war US ships would stop by in Warsaw Pact ports from time to time. Did this require lots of diplomatic manuevering in order to pull off?

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-28 19:19|| 2022-08-28 19:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Any foreign military vessel has to "ask" first otherwise it is one of those casus belli situations.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-28 20:31|| 2022-08-28 20:31|| Front Page Top

#14 And THAT's why we have an Arctic Ambassador!

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-28 22:06|| 2022-08-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

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