A bill requiring US intervention in South China Sea settlement introduced

[Korean]

US slams China garrison in disputed Spratlys - The Philippine Star » News » Headlines

The US Senate approved a resolution late Thursday that “strongly urges” all regional nations to exercise self-restraint and to refrain from permanently inhabiting points in the South China Sea until a code of conduct is reached.

The resolution, sponsored by senators from both parties, declared that the US was committed “to assist the nations of Southeast Asia to remain strong and independent.”

At the US House of Representatives, Rep. Eni Faleomavaega has introduced a bill calling for peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea and South China Sea and its environs and other maritime areas adjacent to the East Asian mainland, a press statement from his office said.

Democrat Faleomavaega has been representing the territory of American Samoa in the US Congress since 1989 and is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

Earlier this year, Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution also calling for a peaceful resolution of the South China Sea dispute.

“We re-introduced this legislation as a bill, rather than a resolution, to show how serious this matter is to us,” said Faleomavaega, original co-sponsor of Ros-Lehtinen’s resolution.

He said the bill was in response to protracted tension in the region.

“China continues to coerce and intimidate its neighbors, and I have grave concerns about China’s expansive territorial claims, which have no basis in international law,” he said in a statement on Friday.

He said China’s establishment of a prefecture-level government in the city of Sansha to oversee areas claimed by Beijing was a provocative action.

 

[anarchy 99]

And we still have no first use nuclear policy.

 

[Korean]

And we still have no first use nuclear policy.

Yes. Don't worry. The South China Sea war will be non-nuclear, just lots of missile shoot outs.

 

[Battle of Bach Dang River]

He said China’s establishment of a prefecture-level government in the city of Sansha to oversee areas claimed by Beijing was a provocative action.

Yes, exactly it is a provocative action of China.

Clearly, china has invaded the Paracel Islands from South Vietnam in 1974 and occupied illegally until now. So-called shasa city is illegal and worthless.

 

[Martian2]

The last time I checked the Constitution, the executive branch was in charge of foreign policy and not the legislative branch.

This is a worthless resolution by the U.S. Congress.

 

[gambit]

The last time I checked the Constitution, the executive branch was in charge of foreign policy and not the legislative branch.

This is a worthless resolution by the U.S. Congress.

I saved that for the next time you start spouting off on how US foreign policy makers must listen to public opinions on some US foreign policy you do not like.

 

[Fil Pacifist]

The last time I checked the Constitution, the executive branch was in charge of foreign policy and not the legislative branch.

This is a worthless resolution by the U.S. Congress.

Last time I checked, The US state department succumbed to the US Congress, when it voted 396 to nil in the lower house and 96 to 1 in the US Senate, to allow your former President Lee Teng-hui to be issued a visa and to visit the US last 1995.

 

[Martian2]

Last time I checked, The US state department succumbed to the US Congress, when it voted 396 to nil in the lower house and 96 to 1 in the US Senate, to allow your former President Lee Teng-hui to be issued a visa and to visit the US last 1995.

You're kidding right?

You're equating the issuance of a visa with taking control of the executive branch's power over foreign policy and the prospect of waging war?

Give me a break. What a b.s. analogy.

 

[anarchy 99]

US getting desperate. Wonder how they will react once the type 056 is patrolling the SCS. In our backyard we can deploy alot of our resources. The others can only cry about it.

 

[gambit]

You're kidding right?

You're equating the issuance of a visa with taking control of the executive branch's power over foreign policy and the prospect of waging war?

Give me a break. What a b.s. analogy.

Looks like you do not know how the US Constitution works as well you pretended to know.

While this may be just a 'resolution', if the US Congress decided to make it a law and if the US President signed it, then a particular part of foreign policy have fallen under US Congress influence. Kinda like the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

War Powers Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541-1548)[1] is a federal law intended to check the President's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States Congress joint resolution; this provides that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or in case of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."

 

[gambit]

US getting desperate. Wonder how they will react once the type 056 is patrolling the SCS. In our backyard we can deploy alot of our resources. The others can only cry about it.

You wish. A single US Aegis class ship in the region and China will withdraw.

 

[anarchy 99]

You wish. A single US Aegis class ship in the region and China will withdraw.

You wish. Don't overrate your military. Last time you messed with the PLA in the Korean war, we gave you the biggest defeat in US military history. As our economy grows, more technologically we advance, the higher the military budget we have. More resources we have. US is barking up the wrong tree messing with the PLA. It seems the US have forgotten the absolute hiding they got in the Korean war.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

You wish. Don't overrate your military. Last time you messed with the PLA in the Korean war, we gave you the biggest defeat in US military history. As our economy grows, more technologically we advance, the higher the military budget we have. More resources we have. US is barking up the wrong tree messing with the PLA. It seems the US have forgotten the absolute hiding they got in the Korean war.

Korean war was a defeat for USA?

 

[chauism]

A bill that has the same effect as Chinese foreign ministry's warning and condamnation. Also it seems that people keep missing the message within this bill, that US does not support anyone's claims over South China Sea, otherwise it would not use the words such as "'strongly urges' all regional nations to exercise self-restraint and to refrain" and "peaceful and collaborative resolution of maritime territorial disputes". Basically what it is really saying is "No one starts $hit without me having something to say".

 

[anarchy 99]

Korean war was a defeat for USA?

just stop it.