Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions [From failure to failure]

chron.com ^ | 8/9/14 | Matthew Lee

[SoFloFreeper]

Already scrambling to confront multiple simultaneous international crises, the Obama administration stepped up efforts Saturday to avert another, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on China and its smaller neighbors to take new steps to ease tensions over maritime disputes in Asian waters that many fear could spark conflict....

[Wuli]

as reported in the press today, China already told the Philippines nyet

[House Atreides]

‘If the plane hits clear air turbulence and he hits his head, does he get another Purple Heart?”
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Well, perhaps its fortunate that Kerry (who served in Vietnam in case you didn’t know) didn’t fall from that little pink girl’s bicycle he rode. He would have deserved (in his mind) another purple heart and a commendation for gallantry.