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In HUGE Win for Trump, Xi Jinping Pulls Missiles from South China Sea Leading Up to Successful North
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 6/12/2018 | jacob Wohl

Posted on 06/12/2018 10:54:38 PM PDT by bitt

China’s activities in the South China Sea have proven to be one of the most contentious geopolitical issues of the Trump Presidency. Leading up to a successful summit in Singapore between President Trump and North Korean leader Chairman Kim Jong Un, new data released by Israeli Private Intelligence Firm ImageSat shows that China removed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles from Woody Island, in the South China Sea last week.

Woody Island, also referred to as Yongxiang Island, is the largest of the Paracel Islands claimed by China in the South China Sea. In recent years, China has taken major steps to heavily fortify the island, building runways for military aircraft and installing anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, much to the dismay of the United States and our Asia-Pacific allies. The unusual and sudden move to remove the missiles from the South China Sea, one of the most critical stretches of ocean in the world, is widely seen by policy experts as a nod of approval to President Trump, leading up to a successful Summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday.

Amid a cancellation of joint US-South Korea military drills near the Korean Peninsula and a decrease of tensions with North Korea, much of America’s attention is likely to be turned to the South China Sea, as President Trump pursues a foreign policy that considers both military force and economics in every foreign affair.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; Japan; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china; djt; israel; japan; jerusalem; korea; letshavejerusalem; maga; pyongyang; republicofkorea; russia; seekandfindstfu; southchinaseas; trump; trumpkimsummit; waronterror; xijinping
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In HUGE Win for Trump, Xi Jinping Pulls Missiles from South China Sea Leading Up to Successful North Korea Summit
1 posted on 06/12/2018 10:54:38 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/12/2018 10:55:04 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: bitt

Interesting!


3 posted on 06/12/2018 11:00:11 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: bitt

Woody Island?
Maybe it’s a theme park.


4 posted on 06/12/2018 11:04:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: bitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWnw9s-gsM

China Returns Missiles to South China Sea island.

This island?


5 posted on 06/12/2018 11:07:01 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: bitt

And the MSM will dutifully ignore this upside of the the Trump summit. It doesn’t fit their narrative. But y’all know that.


6 posted on 06/12/2018 11:10:14 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: lee martell

For Bill Clinton?


7 posted on 06/12/2018 11:11:01 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: cba123

Another link, to the reappearance.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-missile-launchers-reappear-on-disputed-south-china-sea-island/ar-AAyuaAJ


8 posted on 06/12/2018 11:15:03 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: PhiloBedo
Somewhere . . .


9 posted on 06/12/2018 11:17:09 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: bitt
So much win...I think it's fitting to share some HyunA K-pop to celebrate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg4mV6CapGg

10 posted on 06/12/2018 11:23:24 PM PDT by Teflonic (tt)
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To: bitt
Donaldus Magnus!
11 posted on 06/12/2018 11:23:31 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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Lots of coincidences... we cancel military exercises and China removes missiles from the South China Sea. Bet they are related.


12 posted on 06/12/2018 11:31:20 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/12/letters-to-the-editor-let-all-claimants-challenge-/

Please note.

Everyone made a big things of this. They are back, apparently.

Might have been getting routine maintenance.

Here is the first paragraph from that:

A series of Chinese missile systems have reappeared on a disputed island in the South China Sea, days after satellite imagery appeared to show they had been removed (“China pulls missiles from South China Sea island in possible nod to Trump,” Web, June 10). China’s ambitions to become Asia’s undisputed regional hegemon is perhaps most evident in the South China Sea, as Beijing creates military bases along remote reefs and islands in a 1.5-million-square-mile expanse.


13 posted on 06/12/2018 11:40:57 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Israeli Private Intelligence Firm ImageSat shows that China removed anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles from Woody Island, in the South China Sea last week.
Thanks bitt.

14 posted on 06/12/2018 11:45:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Windflier

Donaldus “Maximus”!


15 posted on 06/13/2018 12:15:24 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: bitt

The deal that was promulgated in Singapore was much bigger than just fixing the Nork problem. We may not ever find out directly what else was involved but we can surmise from changes that happen in our East Asian relationships and maybe elsewhere.


16 posted on 06/13/2018 12:29:09 AM PDT by arthurus (qpdb)
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To: bitt

Wow!


17 posted on 06/13/2018 12:36:17 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: cba123
Oh. 😔
18 posted on 06/13/2018 12:38:00 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: bitt

Headlines like this are SO unhelpful
Does anyone think that humiliating the Chinese in our media by crowing about Trump helps our national sevurity?


19 posted on 06/13/2018 2:04:04 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: arthurus
The deal that was promulgated in Singapore was much bigger than just fixing the Nork problem. We may not ever find out directly what else was involved but we can surmise from changes that happen in our East Asian relationships and maybe elsewhere.

Yes. It's a tough call about how much we should be told in the short term. Not just about NK, but also much else. Glad I'm not a gatekeeper.

May God help us all.

20 posted on 06/13/2018 3:47:15 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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