U.S. plans warship deployment to Singapore

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U.S. plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore
Jim Wolf - Reuters
May 10, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first of a new class of U.S. coastal warships will be sent to Singapore next spring for a roughly 10-month deployment, the Navy said on Wednesday, spotlighting a move that may stir China's fears of U.S. involvement in South China Sea disputes.

Deployment of the shallow-draft ship "Freedom" will help refine crew rotations, logistics and maintenance processes to maximize the class's value to U.S. combat commanders, Rear Admiral Thomas Rowden, the Navy's director of surface warfare, told reporters.
"We'll be deploying the ship for about 10 months in the spring of next year" to Singapore, he said in a teleconference. "In the meantime, we're prepping her for success in the execution of that deployment."

U.S. plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore - chicagotribune.com

 

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Moving in Darwin and Singapore help US to better control the Strait in SA. Uncle Sam seems to have put a hand on the laryngeal of the dragon. If dragon are too aggressive and greedy, Uncle Sam will strangle it...

 

[SinoChallenger]

^ It's okay. China has enough oil for 100 years in the South China Sea. USA is retreating..... retreating from Korea and Okinawa all the way down to Australia and Singapore.

 

[Juice]

^ It's okay. China has enough oil for 100 years in the South China Sea. USA is retreating..... retreating from Korea and Okinawa all the way down to Australia and Singapore.

Retreating? We aren't leaving Japan or Korea, the word you are looking for is "spreading."

 

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^ It's okay. China has enough oil for 100 years in the South China Sea. USA is retreating..... retreating from Korea and Okinawa all the way down to Australia and Singapore.

If the US lets Japan to develop their military freely, isn't it a new nightmare for China?

 

[SinoChallenger]

If the US lets Japan to develop their military freely, isn't it a new nightmare for China?

Japan is no match for China. They tried for centuries to displace us as #1 East Asian superpower. They came close only once, after we were weakened by Western powers first. All other times, they were smacked down and retreated back to their volcanic islands

But what the Japanese did to Vietnam was shocking! Treated you Viets so badly

The Straits Times (Singapore)
August 21, 2008

THE Socialist Republic of Vietnam declared its independence on Sept 2, 1945. The declaration came at the tail end of a famine which began in 1944. The famine still haunts the consciousness of many who were alive then.

An estimated two million Vietnamese, or 10 per cent of the population then, died during the famine. By comparison, three million Vietnamese were killed during the Second Indochina War, from 1954 to 1975.

The causes of the famine are hardly in dispute. In 1940, the Japanese army occupied Vietnam but left Vichy France in charge of its administration. By the terms of the May 1941 Franco-Japanese treaty, French Indochina had to supply grains to Japan. From 1941 to 1944, Vietnam supplied 700,000 to 1.3 million tonnes of padi and maize to Japan, roughly equivalent to 50 to 80 per cent of its grain production. And a fairly significant acreage was forced into the production of jute, hemp, cotton and castor-oil plants - also for Japan - thus reducing food production. The wartime destruction of roads and other transport infrastructure made it difficult to transport excess food from southern Vietnam to the north. What ensued was tantamount to genocide.

Many victims walked long distances to provincial capitals, and thousands marched on the capital, Hanoi. Survivors resident there then tell of long lines of ghost-like figures trooping into the city. Hanoi families often found corpses in front of their homes. Huge pits were dug in rural areas near Hanoi for mass burials. The wages paid to burial workers went down by the day, and in Hanoi people were soon burying bodies just for a bowl of gruel. The dead in rural areas were left in the open to rot because people did not have the strength to bury them.

Extreme conditions drove many people to extreme behaviour. The vomit of one became the food of another. People followed horses and oxen to eat the dung or to search for the occasional undigested pieces of food in the dung. Food in the mouth was not necessarily secure, because there were frequent fights to force food out of mouths. People stole, robbed and killed for food.

One family that made cakes for sale reports how it made cakes from earth to guard against theft. Customers would pay for the earth cakes and redeem them for real ones later elsewhere.

There are stories of how infants were eaten up by hungry dogs. Parents would leave their children at home to go look for food, only to find blood and bones in cribs when they returned.

 

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Japan is no match for China. They tried for centuries to displace us as #1 East Asian superpower. They came close only once. They were smacked down and retreated back to their volcanic islands numerous times

But history proves the opposite.
They will soon have full power, If Uncle Sam reduce forces there...

 

[Dharmachakra]

But history proves the opposite.
They will soon have full power, If Uncle Sam reduce forces there...

You have to pardon his history knowledge. Unfortunately their history book is covered by red book.

The history that chinese learn is written in Mao`s mars book, while the rest of the world follow the common earth book