Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have warned the US to stay out of the ongoing territorial disputes within the South China Sea, saying that they are “not helpful” and accusing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of taking sides in recent comments.
Which of course Clinton and the rest of the Obama Administration have been doing. The islands and maritime claims are split between China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Taiwan, and the US has endorsed the claims of all the others at the expense of China.
Though the islands are virtually all uninhabited, they are sitting on top of some valuable resources, including oil deposits, leaving each nation scrambling to assert their claims. China has upgraded their claims in the region to a “military garrison.”
Speaking yesterday in Indonesia, Clinton pushed for nations to “move quickly” to resolve the claims in the region. The Philippines in particular are a dicey case for the US, as Philippines officials claim the US is obliged to enforce their claims in the region militarily.
Can you believe it? Do we have one nation in the world that is prepared to defy the U.S.? Tell me I'm dreaming!
Yes, the global bully has been warned and it's not before time. More nations need to stand up to the U.S., tell it to rack off, tell it to return to its own borders and stay there and mind its own business.
Will it listen? Probably not. But when the whole world turns against it, it will have no choice!
The american inbreed idiots who are prepared to fight for israel or the corporate banksters would be much better off staying (alive i guess) in their local crack houses….
Davidgrayling
You wrote everything that I wanted to say. I couldn't agree more.
Yes David, and that will help Americans get their freedoms back.
And according to Scott Horton´s terrific interview with Thomas Mountain, the US is getting into deep shit in South Saharan Africa.
Another deep irony — "China" originally staked out these claims when it was Nationalist China and the US endorsed this claim when it was made. The other claimants then were France (Indochina) and Britain (Malaysia colony). We were siding with China against the old colonial powers, with the idea of taking the China Market as the sympathetic representative of post colonial transition (despite our missionary meddling that was so resented). Didn't work out that way, and now we are rallying everyone we spurned to overthrow the idea we created.
Clinton and the Obama administration would be wise to accept that advice. But like every idiot administration since the demise of the USSR, this one believes all its problems will be solved by Cold War II against a credible enemy. Well, there may be a lot of countries pissed off with the US, but there's a decided dearth of enemies posing a credible threat.
There are an increasing number of Americans who are wary of the US Department of Threat Inflation, and I hope that number keeps growing. Since I seem to be shilling for Mike Lofgren's book these days, here's what he has to say about that:
"Deliberate threat inflation, based in part on serious intelligence failures, has been the genesis of wasted billions. China-as-military-threat is again in vogue at the Pentagon and in Congress, though the Iranian bogeyman currently has the upper hand. There is a threat from China, but it comes not from the rust-bucket aircraft carrier it bought from Russia. China now owns about $ 1 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities— 36 percent of all foreign holdings. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China is poised to pass the United States in gross domestic product by 2016. That is the real threat we face, not death rays and stealth air fleets."
Lofgren, Mike (2012-08-02). The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted (p. 108). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.