Posted on 07/12/2016 2:37:42 PM PDT by drewh
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the People's Liberation Army to prepare for combat. This comes after an international tribunal on Tuesday issued an unfavorable ruling against China's claims over the South China Sea. U.S.-based Boxun News said Tuesday that the instruction was given in case the United States takes provocative action in the waters once the ruling is made.
The U.S. and China have been expanding their military activities across the sea, stoking heavy tension between the two superpowers.
China controls roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea, a critical waterway that handles some five trillion U.S. dollars worth of trade every year.
The Philippines filed a suit to The Hague tribunal in 2013, accusing Beijing of seizing Scarborough Shoal, a fishing area that Manila claims is part of its exclusive economic zone.
It said China's extensive maritime claims don't conform to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which was ratified by both countries.
Since then, the country has stacked up 15 claims against China's vast territorial expansion.
China opposed the arbitration process.
It says it does not acknowledge the tribunal's jurisdiction, and will not accept its ruling.
The Hague's ruling on Tuesday is binding but the court lacks powers of enforcement. Thus, enforcement falls to the countries who won the ruling and those countries are backed-up by the United States military.
Obama can send all his peeps.
Has Obozo surrendered yet?.......................
Chinese lives matter!
The legacy continues!
Hmmm will China really start something? Won’t that hurt obamas plans on his agenda here?
First shot by China, repudiate all US debt held by China.
I figured it would come down against the Chinese, and I didn’t expect them to accept it.
Nine years ago this would’ve been a big deal. We have since become completely desensitized to ominous news.
Someone asked me just last week what my thoughts were on whether we’d be at war with China by the end of the year. Now, this.
And, if the race riots don’t bear fruit in devouring the government, 0bama’s going to need a war. Of course, there’s a plot line in various shows/movies of creating a race riot atmosphere in the US to provide cover for economic failure and war.
It’s called ‘softening the field for an easy Chinese takeover’. Our country is LOADED WITH Chinese spies as it is, under the cover of ‘worker immigrant visa’.
People’s Liberation Army? You would think it would be the navy. Do they come under the same heading?
I hope somebody let Bambi know before he saw it on the news.
He may’ve had his head too far up BLM’s rectum to notice.
Yes. PLAN People’s Liberation Army Navy.
It's a win-win for the Chinese - start something just prior to November 8 this year. Will the won do something to "postpone" the election? Whatever action occurs, advantage Chinese with the won at the helm.
Likely just bluster for public consumption.
Yes
China’s navy is a branch of the army called the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Rather I should say the Communist Party of China’s navy since officially the People’s Republic of China does not have its own national army since the PLA is an arm the Communist Party and reports to the party, not to the president of the national government.
Next on China’s agenda: annexation of the Sudetenland.
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