the United States Navy has staged its third FONOP in the South China Sea

[Tiqiu]

enough to sink all your nation's weak navy fleets in one time!!!

get lost, there isn't any place for you!!!

I can see another poor soul seeking for a sugar daddy.

 

[homing28]

H-6K

 

[xunzi]

Like I said many times before, our tolerance has a limit and if anyone threaten the personnel and staffs on our territory, we can shoot it down according to international law of sovereign state protecting themselves against intrusion.

 

[BoQ77]

Like I said many times before, our tolerance has a limit and if anyone threaten the personnel and staffs on our territory, we can shoot it down according to international law of sovereign state protecting themselves against intrusion.

your claim violated the DOC

 

[GS Zhou]

I could not understand why some Vietnam guys are so thrilled about this news?
US tells the world it has the right to do "Freedom of Navigation"; China tells the world it deploys modern fighters and warships there day and night to prepare for the emergency. China will even say "thank you" to US because the US destroyer gives China a perfect excuse to enlarge the "defense facilities" on these islands. But what is it to do with Vietnam? Can Vietnam get any benefits from it??

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

I could not understand why some Vietnam guys are so thrilled about this news?
US tells the world it has the right to do "Freedom of Navigation"; China tells the world it deploys modern fighters and warships there day and night to prepare for the emergency. China will even say "thank you" to US because the US destroyer gives China a perfect excuse to enlarge the "defense facilities" on these islands. But what is it to do with Vietnam? Can Vietnam get any benefits from it??

isn't that obvious, Viets dream to see both China and US destroy each other and weakening China in the region. LMAO

 

[jerry_tan]

isn't that obvious, Viets dream to see both China and US destroy each other and weakening China in the region. LMAO

you mean,
isn't that obvious, Viets dream to see both China and US destroy each other and weakening China in the region. LMAO

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

you mean,
isn't that obvious, Viets dream to see both China and US destroy each other and weakening China in the region. LMAO

I think that's pinoy dream too ...keep dreaming but if anything happen, PH will be the first to be gone.

 

[BoQ77]

BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday expressed "resolute opposition" to a U.S. warship patrol in the South China Sea near Yongshu Jiao in the Nansha Islands.

The U.S. warship, USS William P. Lawrence, illegally entered China's waters near the islands on Tuesday without the permission of the Chinese government, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said, adding that the warship was monitored, tracked and issued with a warning.

It is reported that Bill Urban, the spokesman for U.S. Department of Defense, said the freedom of navigation operation was in direct challenge to "excessive maritime claims of some claimants in the South China Sea."

"The action by the U.S. threatens China's sovereignty and security, endangers the safety of people and facilities on the reef, and harms regional peace and stability," Lu said.

"China strongly opposes such action by the U.S. and will continue to take measures to safeguard our sovereignty and security," Lu said, adding China and other coastal states in the South China Sea have been working together to keep navigation and overflight free in the South China Sea for a long time. In fact, the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea has never been a problem.

According to Lu, the United States introduced freedom of navigation operations in 1979 before the signing of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a treaty to which the United States is still not a party. The purpose of these recurring "patrols" is to disrupt the order of the seas and oceans without adhering to the UN convention.

The United States sends military vessels and aircraft on surveillance missions against China as simple acts of provocation, said Lu, adding that the United States actually considers itself above the UNCLOS and these activities are opposed by many countries.

Lu said that the flexing of U.S. military muscle in the name of freedom of navigation is the biggest threat to peace and stability in the area.

 

[xunzi]

your claim violated the DOC

We are the last country to do reclamation on the island. Beside that the point, my Vietnamese friend, DOC is non-binding agreement.

 

[BoQ77]

We are the last country to do reclamation on the island. Beside that the point, my Vietnamese friend, DOC is non-binding agreement.

not on the island, but the submerged rocks

 

[xunzi]

not on the island, but the submerged rocks

There are not rocks but reefs.

 

[BoQ77]

China, US generals to work out mechanism for South China Sea

@inquirerdotnet
Associated Press
02:07 PM May 13th, 2016



US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford. AP FILE PHOTO

BEIJING — Top generals from China and the US say they’re ready to work out an effective mechanism to prevent confrontation and maintain stability in the South China Sea.

China’s Defense Ministry says the Chief of the General Staff Fang Fenghui told Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford in a video conference Thursday that China values freedom of navigation “more than any other country in the world.”

While denying that Beijing was responsible for current tensions in the region, Fang said China wanted to expand communication and cooperation with the US to prevent the issue impacting on the overall relationship.

The conversation followed a sharp verbal exchange between the sides following a US destroyer’s sail-by past China’s largest man-made island in a move to exercise freedom of navigation.


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China, U.S. should manage South China Sea differences constructively: Chinese general


Reuters/Quang Le
China and the United States should manage their differences over disputed waters in the South China Sea constructively, one of China's top military officials has said.

Fang Fenghui, a member of China's Central Military Commission, told General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the two sides should "refrain from actions detrimental to the relations between the two countries and the two militaries", state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.

Fang and Dunford discussed the South China Sea in a video link-up on Thursday, it said.

The discussion comes at a time of heightened tension between China and the United States, which have traded accusations of militarizing the South China Sea as China implements large-scale land reclamation and construction on disputed features while the United States has increased its patrols and exercises.

On Tuesday, China scrambled fighter jets as a U.S. navy guided missile destroyer sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea and denounced the patrol as an illegal threat to peace.

The U.S. defense department said the latest "freedom of navigation" operation was undertaken to "challenge excessive maritime claims" by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam that were seeking to restrict navigation rights in the South China Sea.

China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims.

Fang said China was not to blame for tensions with the United States in the South China Sea and urged the two sides "to bear the overall situation in mind and manage their differences in a constructive way", Xinhua reported early on Friday.

Xinhua quoted Dunford as calling for restraint in the South China Sea, and saying the United States was willing to work with China to establish "an effective mechanism on risk control so as to maintain stability in the South China Sea by peaceful means".

The South China Sea was also discussed at a separate meeting between Sun Jianguo, an admiral and deputy chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, and Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, vice chief of the Australian Defence Force.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull backed the United States on Thursday in its latest South China Sea patrol. Australia has consistently supported U.S.-led freedom of navigation activities there.

China's Defence Ministry said Sun told Griggs the South China Sea was not and should not become an issue between China and Australia, and that Australia should not do anything that "harms regional peace and stability or Sino-Australia ties".

(Reporting by John Ruwitch; Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in Beijing)