Posted on 10/27/2015 8:51:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
he did the right thing here, GOD only knows why.
but seeing an American President bow and curtsy and where traditional garb makes me sick.
The ONLY person I would definitely bow before is Jesus.
Maybe Al Pacino :) It’s an Italian think :)
They have done something that would have been unthinkable 15 years ago....unite the nations of the Western Pacific.
1. Japan has amended it pacifist constitution.
2. India’s Navy is now undertaking operations outside the Indian Ocean.
3. There are now routine naval exercises with the US, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines and India.
4. Vietnam have invited the US back .
5. The Philippines have invited the US back.
6. Vietnam and the Philippines have had joint exercises.
7. For the first time since 1945, Japan has a carrier task force and is considering building a jet capable CV.
8. Australia is modernizing it submarine fleet.
9. Taiwan has been invited as observers in military exercises.
10. Every Western Pacific nation is increasing military spending.
The Beijing Communists’ “Hard/Hard” strategy isn’t scaring other nations into compliance, it just increases their resolve.
I don't see how. It's not as if a coalition of neighbors is about to attack and dismember China. China's recent maneuvers are completely logical in the context of any country bent on territorial expansion - small scale shoving matches that attempt to avoid the cost of full-fledged war, while making incremental gains. It's not particularly novel, but not particularly stupid either. If you were part of the inner sanctum in Beijing, given China's (presumably expansive) territorial goals, how would you proceed? By going to the UN? Note that the relationships among China's neighbors aren't worth they're not written on (i.e. they're not mutual defense treaties) and the conditions under which they will intervene to assist are very very nebulous. Will India help to defend a Vietnamese oil platform under attack by the Chinese Navy?
“Why is the US trying to start a war with Russia and China?”
Russia and China have already started a war with the U.S. by their unlawful invasions of Georgia, the Ukraine, the Spratly Islands, and other locations in the South China Sea within the jurisdictions of Vietnam, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and the Republic of China. Given the fact the locations claimed and occupied by China in the South China Sea are within much less than 12 miles of the locations occupied by the other nations makes it impossible for any maritime vessel or aircraft to avoid the fraudulent 200 nautical mile or the 12 mile nautical mile claims of China. China knows this and is using it to invade and conquer territories in the South China Sea.
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