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Philippines: The War With China Begins On January 1st
Saturday, December 8, 2012 10:43
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The government is moving its new warships (retired American frigates and coast guard cutters) to offshore areas that China claims. That won’t be enough because China already has many more warships and it is building over 40 new coast guard and navy patrol ships and boats. Plus, China has a growing number of navy patrol and combat aircraft. The Philippines needs a major ally, like the United States, to provide enough naval muscle to keep the Chinese from enforcing their new rules that will, starting January 1st, have Chinese naval patrols escorting, or expelling, foreign ships from most of the South China Sea. This includes offshore areas of the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei, and Vietnam that international law does not recognize as Chinese. Happy New Year to you too.
China has also issued new passports, which have a new map of China showing the South China Sea as Chinese territory. The Philippines and Vietnam have refused to recognize this passport. Filipinos are also angry at how China has reneged on its agreement to withdraw its warships from Scarborough Shoal (which, according to international law, is Filipino). Both countries agreed to withdraw their warships from the shoal but three Chinese ships remain. The Chinese keep offering excuses of why the ships are still there and the ships show no sign of leaving.
Not only is the Philippines doing this but India and Veitnam are as well. China fought brief wars in the 1960s with Vietnam and India and beat them both. A likely coalition in some kind of Chinese Imperial War would likely consist of Japan, India, Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam. China has the aspirations but do they have the brass to go toe-to-toe with all out war against one or more of these countries to expand its as yet to exist empire? We shall see.. -mort
No, the Vietnamese kicked the hell out of the Chinese when they last fought. I believe it was in 1979.
I remember that well-not so fast. What happened was that the Chinese said they would “teach Vietnam a lesson” and used mass wave tactics to overrun Vietnam on its Northern border. Crack Vietnamese troops were there but there were so many Chinese that they had to pull back…so many Chinese to shoot that machine gun barrels were literally melting from heat. China made its point..
Ben to both Nam and China, lovely people, Why can’t we just get along ? Imagine !
Too many people, time to thin the herd!
Not possible, China’s End of the World on Dec 21 st ! LOL
Why fight over irradiated fish, …they will give all of you cancers ! !