The US Navy is once again sending ships into the South China Sea deliberately to confront China, and commander Admiral John Aquilino says that the US insists “the Chinese Communist Party must end its pattern of bullying.“
China has substantial maritime claims in the South China Sea, and to the extent they conflict with those of other nations, the US has always backed the other nations’ claims. The US regularly sends ships into the South China Sea, near China-claimed islands, to prove that they can do so.
Admiral Aquilino says the US ships are championing “freedom of the seas and the rule of law.” These are minor ships and probably won’t register as a threat to China. The US is sending the tiny littoral combat ship, the USS Montgomery, and a dry cargo ship.
The ships are heading to the area near a Malaysian drillship’s area of operation, with officials seeing the deployment as a US attempt to back the Malaysians over the Chinese.
Keep prodding the Chinese Tiger till it fights back – then it will be too late to say we did not mean to push.
Too many want this fight…
finally wiping out china after 10,000 years or so works.
A ten thousand year conflict, is kind of ambitions planning.
China could be eliminated in half an hour with around 25-50 modern nukes, about how long an ICBM strike would take from North America to China. Chinese command and control and counterstrike capacity is not deep.
It only takes 100 Hiroshima sized bombs to destroy the world.
This doesn’t scale proportionally to five modern nukes averaging 20x Hiroshima, since that nuclear winter study counted on incinerating 100 cities and silo concentrations across a wide geographic area for worldwide sun-blocking, nuclear winter soot.
Unlike proxy wars which drag on for years, nuclear powers won’t “fight” with the gloves on for long. This could escalate into something serious…
they are all 5′ 5″ and quite the timid soles.
Notice how the media/think tanks, etc., always refer to China as The Chinese Communist Party, but never refer to Israel (for example) as the Likud Apartheid Party, or Egypt as The Egyptian Dictatorship, etc.?
Or the US oligarchy…..
The US empire sends it`s tools of hegemony, thousands of miles to the coasts of China, to confront and warn China against ‘bullying’.
The US of all want`s to lesson others about the rule of law.
china also is not bound by international law. way too powerful to abide by any UN decrees. china does not want to mess with us because they know they would come up on the short end. we dwarf their military might. we drag out our little wars purposely to sell weapons mainly but do not incur our wrath.
They are strong enough to make sure all the people of the entire world would regret it.
they are saving their nukes for a rainy day.
You really should get in touch with reality
reality is when leaders of the u.s., china and russia get together at a social function and all have a belly laugh together about the U.N. and it’s absolute lack of power or authority over them. the U.N. is for the little countries they boastingly gloat over cocktails. i know, one them retorts. they actually sent us a summons once to appear in the hague at some lame international court trial. we respectfully declined or never showed. i forget which.
Meet the new new cold war, same as the new cold war….
Cold, terror, democratization, regime change, whatever flavor the marketing boys at Langley are pushing today….always “new and improved”