Posted on 04/03/2021 8:14:31 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
BEIJING is using an "insidious" policy of coercion and pressure to assert its control over the South China Sea, a leading Asia analyst has said.
China has long claimed sovereignty over the disputed waters, saying that the entire waterway up to the coasts of the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan belongs to it. Beijing's claim is based on the U-shaped nine-dash line etched onto a map in the 1940s by a Chinese geographer. In 2016, an international court of arbitration dismissed China's territorial claims.
Despite the ruling, the People's Republic has in recent years built artificial islands in the waters claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia and dispatched military units to them.
Now Beijing is deploying another tactic to beef up its presence in the region and assert its control.
The Chinese government has over the the last few weeks sent hundreds of "fishing ships" to reinforce its outlets and put pressure on its neighbors.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
After his morning diaper change and Puddin Pop...
We need to arm our allies there to the teeth. Even give them missile shields.
Well, Joe could send them a sternly worded missive, but that might be rash...
Of course, that would lead to joek's THIRD diaper change of the day...
He could also send them a sternly filled diaper.
Jill has lots of those...
Duarte must go, and the US needs new basing rights in the Philippines.
Clark AFB and Subic Bay/Cubi Point are enormously valuable.
Tactical fighters can reach mainland China from Clark, and cover the majority of the South China Sea.
Okinawa and the northern islands cover the rest.
It would put the trump card back in the pocket of US forces in the Pacific.
There have always been Islamists and Commies on the southern islands.
They don’t disrupt normal operations on Luzon.
Power abhors a vacuum...
Particularly the vacuum created by the American communists with the “lid” imposed on the military while they get their un-diverse minds reconfigured by Goebbels and crew...
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All we have to do is get India involved! They’re army is as big as China’s and probably tougher!!
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‘People quote from the express here now?
wow. I guess real news is slow.
U-shape? The preposterous shape is much closer to something else entirely.
They’ll have to stand up to China themselves. Duarte might be able to do it.
BEIJING is using an “insidious” policy of coercion and pressure to assert its control over the South China Sea?
You don’t say....as if that’s new news. ‘Everybody’ knows over there China’s been doing this for years and will surely up their game as they strong arm nations who go in with their Belt and Road deal.
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