Posted on 10/14/2015 11:38:54 AM PDT by tcrlaf
China has hit back at the US in a row over marine territorial claims.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying alluded to the US when she blamed "some countries" for flexing "their military muscles again and again" in the South China Sea.
Last week, US officials said they were considering sailing warships in an area around the Spratly island chain which China claims as territory.
It has sparked tit-for-tat warnings between the two powers.
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The row began when US officials said they were considering sending warships inside the 12-nautical-mile zones that China claims as territory around the Spratlys.
That sparked strong words from China, with Ms Hua warning: "We will never allow any country to violate China's territorial waters and airspace in the Spratly Islands, in the name of protecting freedom of navigation and overflight."
On Tuesday, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter expressed "strong concerns" over island-building, and defended Washington's plans.
"Make no mistake, the United States will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows, as we do around the world, and the South China Sea will not be an exception," he said at a news conference with the Australian foreign and defence ministers.
"We will do that in the time and places of our choosing," he added, according to Reuters news agency.
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Scared me for a minute..when I saw the headlines and knowing what a retreater-in-chief we have, I thought it was over the Catalina Islands..
Pretty soon we will be withdrawing from Pearl Harbor.
If US military still has any sway, it will not permit China this territory
Wo Fat would make a good territorial governor.
The first and only step should be going in with overwhelming naval force to clean out the islands. China does not have the ships and I think they would blink at shooting off missiles. Obama is a pussy who cannot point his ass fast enough towards any dictator and that emboldens the Chinese but they would have to pause at what they “don’t know” about American capabilities.
China actually has a case; the US accepted in the 1920s that the islands —which nobody wanted at the time —belonged to China (which was the only nation claiming them); and defended that Chinese claim against Japan during the 1930s.
Nobody has wanted them much since, until oil deposits were found.
Now, everybody wants them.
But, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the business of the nations involved, not the US; we have enough to do in this world, without policing every border and mineral claim.
“China does not have the ships”
they don’t need that many. They are well within the range of LOTS of land-based air.
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