China could soon sink US in South China Sea

[IblinI]

Unlike you I never believe to peaceful rise shit. Better be prepared. If you don’t like western media go back to weibo or globaltimes or chinatoday or xinhua. Nobody will miss you.

Stopped the useless words, let's bet,in five years time there will be no conflicts, whoever lose, deleted your pdf account.

 

[Viet]

Stopped the useless words, let's bet,in five years time there will be no conflicts, whoever lose, deleted your pdf account.

No conflict no war in 5 years time? Interesting to hear that from your mouth. I am now very relax. I will book a long holiday. Ah by the way, what happens after 5 years? In 2025? oh is that the famous made in China 2025?

 

[IblinI]

No conflict no war in 5 years time? Interesting to hear that from your mouth. I am now very relax. I will book a long holiday. Ah by the way, what happens after 5 years? In 2025? oh is that the famous made in China 2025?

That is why we have a bet or stopped chanting daily and obsessed with us.

That is why we have a bet or stopped chanting daily and obsessed with us.

Since your life can not carry on without mentioning China, I am trying to saved you from heart attacked.

 

[Viet]

That is why we have a bet or stopped chanting daily and obsessed with us.


Since your life can not carry on without mentioning China, I am trying to saved you from heart attacked.

Nonsense
My favorite countries followed by Vietnam are Germany, Singapore and Japan. In that order. My favorite field is communications technology. China is only because first, the section is China and Far East. Second, your country is number 1 security threat.

 

[Mista]

My favorite countries followed by Vietnam are Germany, Singapore and Japan.

Why do you like Singapore lol.

 

[925boy]

You have mis understood China.
Warfare is not just about military force.

China RAMMED a VIetnamese boat a week or 2 ago and it sunk, and VIetnamese govt til today has not done anything about that. BUt some VIetnamese members here are telling us that Vietnam can take on China any day from now and win.

 

[Nan Yang]

China RAMMED a VIetnamese boat a week or 2 ago and it sunk, and VIetnamese govt til today has not done anything about that. BUt some VIetnamese members here are telling us that Vietnam can take on China any day from now and win.

Can you provide the source of who did the ramming ? Thanks.

 

[925boy]

Can you provide the source of who did the ramming ? Thanks.

U.S. Warships Enter Disputed Waters of South China Sea as Tensions With China Escalate
The move comes as a war of words between the United States and China over the coronavirus pandemic intensifies.

A view of Scarborough Shoal, now effectively controlled by China. The Chinese government has made vast claims to the South China Sea that conflict with demarcations made by five other governments.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times

By Hannah Beech

• April 21, 2020
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American warships have sailed into disputed waters in the South China Sea, according to military analysts, heightening a standoff in the waterway and sharpening the rivalry between the United States and China, even as much of the world is in lockdown because of the coronavirus.

The America, an amphibious assault ship, and the Bunker Hill, a guided missile cruiser, entered contested waters off Malaysia. At the same time, a Chinese government ship in the area has for days been tailing a Malaysian state oil company ship carrying out exploratory drilling. Chinese and Australian warships have also powered into nearby waters, according to the defense experts.

Despite working to control a pandemic that spread from China earlier this year, Beijing has not reduced its activities in the South China Sea, a strategic waterway through which one-third of global shipping flows. Instead, the Chinese government’s yearslong pattern of assertiveness has only intensified, military analysts said.

“It’s a quite deliberate Chinese strategy to try to maximize what they perceive as being a moment of distraction and the reduced capability of the United States to pressure neighbors,” said Peter Jennings, a former Australian defense official who is the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

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Since January, when the coronavirus epidemic began to surge, the Chinese government and Coast Guard ships, along with maritime militias, have been plying contested waters in the South China Sea, tangling with regional maritime enforcement agencies and harassing fishermen.

Earlier this month, the Vietnamese accused a Chinese patrol ship of ramming and sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat.

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Onboard a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane during a mission to observe the build-up and militarization of reefs and islands by China in 2018.Credit...Adam Dean for The New York Times
Last month, China opened two new research stations on artificial reefs it has built on maritime turf claimed by the Philippines and others. The reefs are also equipped with defense silos and military-grade runways.

Over the weekend, the Chinese government announced that it had formally established two new districts in the South China Sea that include dozens of contested islets and reefs. Many are submerged bits of atoll that do not confer territorial rights, according to international law.

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“It seems that even as China was fighting a disease outbreak, it was also thinking in terms of its long-term strategic goals,” said Alexander Vuving, a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. “The Chinese want to create a new normal in the South China Sea, where they are in charge, and to do that they’ve become more and more aggressive.”

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By The New York Times

After the sinking of the Vietnamese boat, the State Department urged China in a statement “to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic, and to stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea.”

The Chinese government has made vast claims to the South China Sea that conflict with demarcations made by five other governments. An international tribunal has dismissed most of China’s claims to the waterway, but Beijing does not recognize the ruling and has instead built naval bases on reefs it now controls.

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While the United States has no territorial claims in the South China Sea, the American Navy says it has kept the peace in these waters for decades. American military officials have chastised China for its increased militarization of the waterway.

“Through our continued operational presence in the South China Sea, we are working with our allies and partners to promote freedom of navigation and overflight, and the international principles that underpin security and prosperity for the Indo-Pacific,” said Lt. Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman, a spokeswoman for the United States Indo-Pacific Command. “The U.S. supports the efforts of our allies and partners to determine their own economic interests.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/asia/coronavirus-south-china-sea-warships.html

 

[cochine]

Why do you like Singapore lol.

U.S. Security Cooperation With Singapore
JULY 15, 2019
Singapore is one of the United States’ strongest bilateral partners in Southeast Asia and plays an indispensable role in supporting the region’s security and economic framework. The United States cooperates with Singapore on the full range of security issues, to include border security, maritime security, military preparedness, counter proliferation, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism.

The access, basing, and overflight privileges granted by Singapore advance U.S. government and allied efforts to bolster a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. Singapore was the first Southeast Asian country to join the Global Coalition, and the Singapore Armed Forces have deployed imagery analysis teams, KC-135 aircraft refueling tankers, and medical teams to the D-ISIS campaign. Singapore has also played a critical role in our counterpiracy efforts, including serving as the Commander of the Gulf of Aden counterpiracy Combined Task Force-151 in 2018.

The U.S. has $7.34 billion in active government to government sales cases with Singapore under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system. FMS sales notified to Congress are listed here, and recent and significant prior sales include: F-16 Block 52 upgrades, F-16 pilot training and logistics support, F-15SG pilot training, AH64-D Apache Helicopters, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), AN/TPQ-53 Counter fire Acquisition Radar Systems, XM395 Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI) Rounds, Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Kits, and AMRAAM and Sidewinder missiles.

Since 2014, the U.S. also authorized the permanent export of over $37.6 billion in defense articles to Singapore via Direct Commercial Sales (DCS). The top categories of DCS to Singapore include: aircraft parts and components, gas turbine engines and military electronics.

Over 1,000 Singaporean military personnel participate in training, exercises, and Professional Military Education in the United States in places like Luke Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona, and Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, where Singaporean F-16, AH64-D, and F-15SG pilots train alongside their U.S. counterparts. Singapore has operated advanced fighter jet detachments in the continental United States for the past 26 years.

The U.S. Navy maintains a logistical command unit, Logistics Group Western Pacific, in Singapore and conducts ongoing rotational deployments of Littoral Combat Ships and P-8 Poseidon aircraft. These deployments have facilitated patrols in the South China Sea, participation in multilateral naval exercises, and the delivery of relief supplies to the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.

Singapore and the United States participate in 12 military forums focused on science and technology cooperation. U.S. Department of Defense research agencies with a permanent presence at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore include the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Office of Naval Research Global, the Navy Medical Research Center, and the Army International Technology Center. All work with Singaporean counterparts on issues of shared military relevance.

Singapore also participates in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), an annual, multilateral naval exercise designed to enhance capabilities in a broad spectrum of naval operations including maritime security skills and operational cohesiveness among participating forces, which include the U.S., Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Timor Leste. This is just one of a myriad of bilateral and multilateral military exercises between the United States and Singapore. The yearly Tiger Balm exercise between the Singapore Army and the U.S. Army is our oldest bilateral training opportunity, dating back to 1980. 2019 marks the 28th anniversary of the first Valiant Mark exercise between the U.S. Marine Corps and the Singapore Army. In addition, the Republic of Singapore and U.S. Pacific Air Forces have been conducting Exercise Commando Sling since 1990. Singapore is the only Pacific country to hold annual unilateral training exercises in the United States (Exercise Forging Sabre).

For further information, please contact the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at PM-CPA@state.gov, and follow the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs on Twitter, @StateDeptPM.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-singapore/

 

[Nan Yang]

Earlier this month, the Vietnamese accused a Chinese patrol ship of ramming and sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/asia/coronavirus-south-china-sea-warships.html

China says Vietnamese fishing boat rammed coastguard ship before sinking

• Vietnam gives different account of incident and says the Chinese vessel was responsible for the sinking
• Two sides have repeatedly clashed over the disputed Paracel Islands

Mimi Lau
Published: 6:39pm, 4 Apr, 2020

The Chinese coastguard ship 4301

China has accused a Vietnamese fishing vessel of ramming a coastguard ship in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

The incident, which happened around midnight on Thursday, has fuelled tensions between the two sides with Vietnam blaming China for the incident and lodging an official protest.

The Chinese coastguard said in an online statement late on Friday that the Vietnamese fishing vessel QNG90617 had been fishing illegally in waters near the Paracel Islands and had refused to leave after repeated warnings.

“It rammed into our coastguard ship 4301 and sunk, all eight of the crew have been rescued,” the coastguard spokesman Zhang Jun said.


https://www.scmp.com/news/china/mil...ietnamese-fishing-boat-rammed-coastguard-ship

 

[cochine]

China says Vietnamese fishing boat rammed coastguard ship before sinking

• Vietnam gives different account of incident and says the Chinese vessel was responsible for the sinking
• Two sides have repeatedly clashed over the disputed Paracel Islands

Mimi Lau
Published: 6:39pm, 4 Apr, 2020

The Chinese coastguard ship 4301

China has accused a Vietnamese fishing vessel of ramming a coastguard ship in disputed waters in the South China Sea.

The incident, which happened around midnight on Thursday, has fuelled tensions between the two sides with Vietnam blaming China for the incident and lodging an official protest.

The Chinese coastguard said in an online statement late on Friday that the Vietnamese fishing vessel QNG90617 had been fishing illegally in waters near the Paracel Islands and had refused to leave after repeated warnings.

“It rammed into our coastguard ship 4301 and sunk, all eight of the crew have been rescued,” the coastguard spokesman Zhang Jun said.


https://www.scmp.com/news/china/mil...ietnamese-fishing-boat-rammed-coastguard-ship

Chinese is the biggest liar in this world.

 

[gambit]

China could soon sink US in South China Sea
Recent US deployment to contested waterway likely has Chinese strategic planners thinking: 'So that's all you've got?'

And we say: That is all we need.

Another useless 'could' article written under deadline.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Chinese is the biggest liar in this world.

better check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.

 

[gambit]

better check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.

Sounds like China has taken your advice -- cancelled aircraft carriers.

 

[cochine]

better check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.

Chinese is the dirty terrorist in East Sea of Vietnam.