[Mouton]

I guess Hitlery and Ears need another distraction. Hey Ears, how is that kowtowing to the chicoms working with N Korea? Hitlery, is your hubby trying to make nice nice with his pals from the Vietnam era now?

This is how this will play out with these two buffones in command: the chicoms will not cede anything regarding these islands, not move one iota on N Korea and will probably make some noise about reunifying with Taiwan, which they believe to be Formosa.

Maybe Turbo Tax Tim can take a trip to the Chicoms and mention something about the US repudiating its foreign debt! Now that would be something to behold. The upside, he would not leave China without a trip to some reeducation camp.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[WellyP]

It's not the islands that China is interested in, it's the oil and gas potential under the Paracel Islands and the Bankok Shoals that is attracting all the interest.

Interesting to see Vietnam and China going head to head. Vietnam is much friendlier with the US and is causing China's industrial growth to slow as more companies move their operations out to countries like Vietnam and India.

[SunkenCiv]

...the Obama administration said Friday that it would step into a tangled dispute between China and its smaller Asian neighbors over a string of strategically significant islands in the South China Sea. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at an Asian regional security meeting in Vietnam, stressed that the United States remained neutral... But... had an interest in preserving free shipping in the area and that it would be willing to facilitate multilateral talks on the issue. Though presented as an offer to help ease tensions, the stance amounts to a sharp rebuke to China. Beijing has insisted for years that all the islands belong to China and that any disputes should be resolved by China. In March, senior Chinese officials pointedly warned their American counterparts that they would brook no interference in the South China Sea, which they called part of the "core interest" of sovereignty.

This is a bitch-slap to the Chinese, and it all leads back to their support for their North Korean criminal client state. Thanks TigerLikesRooster.

[Niuhuru]

“the Obama administration said Friday that it would step into a tangled dispute between China and its smaller Asian neighbors over a string of strategically significant islands in the South China Sea. “

Just like a stupid actor offering to assist in diplomatic negotiations. Butting in when he wasn’t invited to join in solving the problem.