U.S. Warns China Not to Attempt Crimea-Style Action in Asia

Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | Thursday, April 3, 2014 | David Brunnstrom

[Fee]

China is not going to do anything. EU/US is already in conflict with Russia. Let two lions fight and be the monkey on the rock watching. China will not do anything.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"The president of the United States and the Obama administration is firmly committed to honoring our defense commitments to our allies,"

Right. Except for that 1994 Budapest Memorandum in which the United States provided security assurances to the Ukraine in return for it's nuclear disarmament. What an embarrassment this president is - treat defense commitments like toilet paper and then claim that we're firmly committed to honoring defense commitments - very convincing. The Chinese may be quaking in their boots, but only because they're laughing.

[ronnie raygun]

Listen Russia China you take what you want we will jump up and down, ok?

[Bigg Red]

...China should be in no doubt about Washington’s resolve to defend its allies if necessary.

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Oh, I am sure they are just terrified.

[Cvengr]

I think we all agree Obama is seeding ideas.

[Joe Boucher]

Yeah China,
Obammy is going to draw a line in the sand.
OOOHHHHH you know what that means don’t ya?
Go ahead and invade freaken Japan or Taiwan cause the magic negro won’t do squat.

[grania]

The distinction should be that Crimea voted to rejoin Russia and China would be taking over those disputed territories without a vote. Except the ignorant Obama administration declared that a vote by Crimeans was a hostile act by Russia. So the Obama administration can’t make that distinction without looking even more clueless.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks kristinn.

[Pamlico]

This reminds me of when Neville Chamberlin issued a guarantee for Poland. Hitler scoffed and attacked Poland anyway. It is what happens when a leader is not respected or feared. It doesn’t matter if the leader is Chamberlin or 0bama, the results will be the same. I am afraid we are going to be in a bad time and the job for the next president is going to be gravely more difficult due to the actions of 0bama.

[Feckless]

...yeah, ‘cause you don’t want sissy-boy Queen Putt to stamp his foot at you in a hissy fit. you see how he handled Vlad the Impaler.

[Zhang Fei]

ping

[Grimmy]

PDRChina leader type guy’s secretary: “The US says we better not do anything like what the Ruskies are doing to Crimea.”

PDRChina leader type guy: “Hey! Why didn’t we think of doing that earlier? Who can we pick up for cheap? Mongolia, Nepal... maybe add some Vietnam in that too?”

[SunkenCiv]

They may lie low for a while — the election in India begins in a few days and contines into May, and Narendra Modi looks like he’s going to win it. They’ll lay off anything provocative to avoid giving him a boost at the polls.

[Tainan]

"KMT are jumping all over each other the be the biggest ChiCom butt kisser."

Well, that's the DPP toady party line interpretation from their binlang stained mouthes.
Those with a modicum more experience in the realities of international politics are of a different mind.

[ifinnegan]

What I said is true. Sad to say.

Chiang would have thrown today’s KMT in prison for what they’ve done.

Not sure where your coming from.