South China Sea Forum

[C130]

RT-OP edge

After serving in the Georgia Legislature, in 1992, Cynthia McKinney won a seat in the US House of Representatives. She was the first African-American woman from Georgia in the US Congress. In 2005, McKinney was a vocal critic of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and was the first member of Congress to file articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. In 2008, Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination for the US presidency.


bias opinion discarded


this would be like a anti-communist Chinese writing a propaganda filled opinion in the Washington Post about the crap China has done to its own people and it's growing domination of Asian and the SCS.

I like how she adds this in the last paragraph

The case of Bolivarian Venezuela is a good example—both during Hugo Chavez’s tenure and today, with President Maduro.

this is a good example. what is happening in Venezuela is the U.S fault. wow this idiot would want this country to turn into Venezuela or a Zimbabwe.

please renounce your U.S citizenship and go to Russia,China, or Venezuela.






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[Rechoice]

Vietnam used to be a country of braves that pride itself of victories over superpowers. Nowadays, they are just hiding behind US butt like a bunch of cowards. Look that they have been posting! It is a none stop stream of US will do this, or US will do that to you. Pathetic!

Let enemy of enemy to counter enemy, it is simple tactic. What did Mao Zedong said to you Chinese : sitting on maintain, watching tigers in fighting.

Today, Uncle Sam is indirectly invited in to SCS dispute by Chinese. Congrats China...

 

[rott]

spanked?? who's the one that cries every time a patrol of ships or plane to fly over your reclaimed islands.



everyone should just ignore China.


or we'll just set off a nuke underwater creating a mini-tsunami to wash your island away

This is called posturing. First we build the island and the US sends ships and planes, and we respond by placing the SAMs. Now it's USA's move.
Get it, little boy? If not, we'll send you to the showers.

 

[Viet]

Vietnam used to be a country of braves that pride itself of victories over superpowers. Nowadays, they are just hiding behind US butt like a bunch of cowards. Look that they have been posting! It is a none stop stream of US will do this, or US will do that to you. Pathetic!

We are brave but not stupid. We have seen enough bloodshed. Why don't you reduce yourself to the size of Vietnam and we talk?

 

[BoQ77]

The bottom line is that US actions indicate that the US gives not one whit about international law. It breaks international law everyday that it tortures, kills, bombs and maims the innocent. It threatens with asymmetric warfare any country that dares to challenge its ability to impose a neoliberal agenda on foreign citizens.

What is America doing in the South China Sea? — RT Op-Edge

I wonder whether the writer would criticise US for violation of international law in South China Sea or not?
as the title "What is American doing in the South China Sea"

To me, US doesn't violate the international law when they challenge excessive claims in SCS, no matter what they did to tortures, kills, bombs,... in other places.

 

[Viet]

Reduce ourself to the size of Vietnam before talk?...you will have to wait until the end of this earth it was the fantasy dream for generation and generation of your ancestor up until you to dream a break apart and weaker china
but you only witness that we become bigger and bigger such as we recover more territories with reclamation on SCS, And there is millions reason why is good to be Chinese, Northern and southern Hans are fighting collectively for China, we're like the Borg, any enemies resistance is futile. The uniqueness of Chinese people is beyond Vietnamese comprehension.

ha ha ha

seriously I wonder why you spend billions of dollars digging the sea floor, ruining the enviroment, reclaiming sands, just successfully creating some tinny land mass. all of this to risk a nuclear war with America. you really want to put the fate of China on the poker table? 4,000 years chinese civilization can go down the drain.

your brother russia still holds a large part of China, isn´t? not to mention the lost land: Mongolia.

I pity you.

 

[Globenim]

How provocative of China!

You can't just militarize your hometurf with defenses on Chinese islands that disable offensive U.S. weapons deployed 6000miles away from the U.S. mainland in front of your shores for peace and freedom bombing you!

Be more responsible China!

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Not really, no. Its only obvious American airlines would do so, they have no skin in this. This doesn't exactly add to claims of sovereignty over the area as an ADIZ does not denote sovereignty over an area. If the US military (along with other militaries) ignore China's ADIZ and China cannot send anything to intercept then its ADIZ loses credibility.

Given this concerns the US specifically ,could you source where the Chinese military has ignored an American ADIZ? Sounds like a good way to get intercepted, and that would make headlines which I haven't seen.

ADIZ doesn't mean we claim the sovereignty over the entire area but to signal that we have control over that space as you American did. And what make you think that we're not able to send anything to intercept in SCS regarding the ADIZ, we have SAM, we have 3 km airstrip and we will have fighters there, we can certainly reinforce our ADIZ credibility.

I don't need to list any source regarding China ignored American ADIZ but base on reciprocity, you will get the same treatment as you did regarding our ADIZ

 

[nang2]

If USA dont move from one conflict to another , How will they justify their huge defence budgets, how will USA power projection survive if the rest of the world becomes peaceful and prosperous, how will USA shape their foreign policy if they cant show a bogeman to their nation.USA foreign policy is based on kill/destroy any competition

As i have said before Islamic terrorism/jihad is in between stage till USA finds its next target after the communists and was created to fill the gap

Good observation!

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

ha ha ha

seriously I wonder why you spend billions of dollars digging the sea floor, ruining the enviroment, reclaiming sands, just successfully creating some tinny land mass. all of this to risk a nuclear war with America. you really want to put the fate of China on the poker table? 4,000 years chinese civilization can go down the drain.

your brother russia still holds a large part of China, isn´t? not to mention the lost land: Mongolia.

I pity you.

YES, we're willing to spend billions to control the strategic area regardless how tiny it is. And I don't have any doubt that you viets like to dream of nuclear exchange between China and US but there is more chance that US will nuke Vietnam more than China because it's an easy target without any option of retaliation, and Americans can get easily away without any accountability as how they did in Vietnam war with those agent orange, you viets couldn't simply retaliate. And for the same tonken you viets don't want to put the fate of Vietnam on the poker table against China...and that's how you become our vessal state for millennium...I guess I understand your logic...

As for territories, we earned and lost throughtout the history, that's not a big deal about that, Tibet and Xinjiang that were annexed thanks to Mongol and Manchu...and you never know next might be Vietnam

And pity for me?? no I pity you over your hopelss dream to see the reduced size of China but wake up with nightmare to see our islands reclamation allow us to fully control the SCS include which your south Vietnam is now effectively under our monitor screen,

 

[dichoi]

.Japan, U.S. join Philippines in South China Sea navy drills | The Japan Times

A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C patrol aircraft launches anti-missile flares during a naval fleet review in Sagami Bay off Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in October 2012. | REUTERS

Japan, U.S. join Philippines in South China Sea navy drills

BLOOMBERG, KYODO

PALAWAN, PHILIPPINES – The U.S. and Japan are conducting separate military drills with the Philippines near disputed islands in the South China Sea, signaling support for the country as China builds out reclaimed reefs in the waters.

The annual CARAT Philippines joint exercise started Monday off Palawan island and will run until Friday, according to U.S. Navy spokesman Arlo Abrahamson. The Philippine Navy and the Maritime Self-Defense Force are holding drills around the same island through Saturday, the MSDF said last week.

The exercise is seen as an opportunity to display the strength of Japan’s cooperation with the Philippines, with an eye on China’s controversial land reclamation on the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

About 20 personnel belonging to an aircraft group at MSDF Kanoya Air Base in Kagoshima Prefecture arrived in Puerto Princesa City, the capital of the Philippine island of Palawan in the South China Sea, on a P3-C Orion patrol aircraft on Sunday.

Personnel from the Philippine military are scheduled to to board the plane for a flight over international waters above the South China Sea starting Tuesday.

MSDF chief Adm. Tomohisa Takei, who visited the island in February during an official visit to the Philippines, said warning and surveillance activity “is not envisioned.”

At a summit in Tokyo on June 4, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed to begin negotiations on an accord for the transfer of defense equipment and technology in the fields of disaster relief and maritime security, as their nations bolster security ties amid tensions over China’s reclamation work.

Although details have yet to be worked out, Japanese sources have said P3-C patrol aircraft and radar-related equipment are seen as potential export items.

The U.S., meanwhile, has backed Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines as tensions escalate with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.

“This year’s exercise reflects more than two decades of increasingly complex training ashore, at sea and in the air,” Abrahamson said.

The drill includes a sea phase with the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth, diving and salvage ship USNS Safeguard and a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft, and at least one Philippine frigate, according to the U.S. Navy. It’s the first time a littoral combat ship has taken part in CARAT Philippines.

Tensions in the area have risen recently with China warning planes and ships away from reefs where it is reclaiming land. The Fort Worth had an encounter last month with a Chinese ship — it was reportedly followed by a frigate — and a U.S. surveillance plane was repeatedly warned by radio to divert from its path near the reefs.

“We prefer to look at it as a strategy of regional stability and less of defense,” U.S. Rear Adm. William Merz, commander of Task Force 74, told reporters on Palawan in response to a question about how the drills may boost the Philippines’ ability to defend territory. “We have a lot of history that these types of exercises, working with our allies, tend to lead to a very stable environment.”

China will construct facilities to meet “necessary” military needs and various civilian needs, after it finishes reclamation in the near term, its Foreign Ministry said in a statement this month. The construction doesn’t target any nation and won’t affect navigation or aviation freedom, it said.

Protecting freedom of navigation in the disputed waters resonates in the region because more than $5 trillion worth of goods is shipped through the South China Sea each year. It is also home to about one/tenth of the world’s annual fishing catch.

China criticized drills involving more than 11,000 soldiers from the Philippines, U.S. and Australia near the contested islands in April. The expanded war games were inappropriate and ran counter to efforts to ease tensions, the state-run Global Times said at the time.

“The intent of CARAT is enhancing capabilities, navy-to- navy capabilities, increasing interoperability,” Rear Adm. Leopoldo Alano, commander of the Philippine Fleet, told reporters Monday on Palawan. “These can be used both in wartime missions or missions other than war.”

 

[Rechoice]

Vietnam being a tiny country is not China's fault. Agent Orange wiped out a lot of population.

How many were wiped out in China in big leaf forward and culture revolution ?

, we will strip naked and expose ourself to them...well it's not far from true, there is nothing to hide in the Island

Looks like this in China ?

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Looks like this in China ?

I guess that had attracted of Vietnamese female tourists to China and came to settle in China, we should build more like that

 

[zheng2]

Han Chinese invaded in to Vietnam, we kicked you back to China. The story is finished.

交趾 is written in Hanzi, imitated the sound speaking from old Vietnamese language, " kẻ chợ" (Kinh people), "Ke" is written as 交, "cho" is written as 趾. The map from Ming Dynasty of China, it stated clearly where is 交趾界 (Vietnam border) and where is 交趾洋 (Vietnamese Ocean). Study more, kid.

Chinese have to stop lying about history. In Francisco Conference 1951 after WW II, with representative of delegate from State Vietnam under leading of Bao Dai Emperor Vietnam's, Claim of China in East Sea of Vietnam is rejected by voting.

Islands belong to Vietnam from long time ago in the past. China has just stolen our Island from 1956 (by Taiwan), 1974 and 1988 recently (by mainland China) with force.

vietnamese has language?
you must be kidding you use chinese words in ancient times and now uses western words.
viets has no language even do not have a name.
the word vietnam is translated by the french from chinese words.KID.
and there is no such a country called vietnam at WW2 stupid,there are just france and japan colony.
the vietnam country is a puppet control by chinese emperor,you have no right to call you leader an emperor but a king,answered to chinese emperor.kid
you should learn more kid.
and those seas is ordered to belong to chinese in 1945 meetings you stole those islands in 1951 you stupid kid.
stop barking and come on fighting useless dump.

Oh my really now since when did china became archipelagic state? again china as no real claim to the area obviously you did not read any post you just repeat the old commie policy of your imperialist country the only thefts here is you guys for claim a whole damn sea as your own and stealing everything from my country and everyone else well since you guys made a lots of enemies lets see how you people fair when people will finally get sick and tired of your arrogance or even better after the ruling comes out lets see how much and china risk as a international devenant

so what enemies,let them come.
so of them are not enemies but thives and clowns.
you should be honest,stop barking and give those islands back,you even do not have the power and tech to make artificial islands,we finished them in just 4 months.
go and call your american papa and japanese mama to colonize your pathetic land again.

 

[ahojunk]

U.S. hype over 'militarization' in South China Sea double standards
Source: Xinhua | 2016-02-25 21:02:56 | Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The whole brouhaha stirred up by the United States over alleged "militarization in the South China Sea" is clearly double standards, Defense Ministry spokesperson Wu Qian said Thursday at a monthly press briefing in Beijing.

Several high-ranking U.S. officials have recently accused China of militarizing the South China Sea and ratcheting up tensions.

The U.S. has sent military vessels and planes into China's territory without authorization to conduct surveillance, he said.

Some countries in the South China Sea are illegally occupying China's islands and reefs, and have deployed radars and artillery there.

He added that the U.S. had called on its allies and partners to conduct "targeted" joint drills and patrols.

"Is that not a kind of militarization?" he asked.

He said that the U.S. should not turn a blind eye to all those behaviors while throwing accusations at China. Otherwise it was blatant double standards.