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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
...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.
9 posted on 07/24/2010 6:43:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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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.

This is exactly the way China went about N. Korean problem. Hitlery is turning the table around, and probably would be urging China to remain calm and rational, when China acts angry.

10 posted on 07/24/2010 6:49:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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