Trump will just unleash global warming and the seas will rise over the artificial islands. Then h will create storms to wash them away.
How do they reply to these messages?
A simple FU?
Or a polite “we are in international waters- don’t YOU make a ‘misunderstanding’, or else...”
china may soon be experiencing a series of mysteriously disappearing submarines and surface vessels.
But “Russia Russia Russia”!
There’s a simple solution. They can build any Island they please, but we never recognize them as territory. If we drill an oil platform the surrounding 12 miles do not become US territorial Waters. Essentially they’re building fixed aircraft carriers. Everywhere one of our carriers goes doesn’t become us water. Why can’t one of our leaders articulate this simple concept?
Go away ,we not wantee you here
Now who is regretting retiring the Blackbird?
Is there a replacement? (Don’t answer that. We don’t have a “need to know”.)
China has modelled their Empire building in the South China Sea after 1930’s Japan. Except instead of conquering territory, they simply built their own out of uninhabited areas.
Some day, one of these bases is going to fire on a US military asset. The US will have to respond with total obliteration of the offending installation. Then continue business as usual, unless China wants to go to war. Then things would get tense.
I don’t believe anything coming from CNN.
While half the nation frets over the minuscule Russian threat, China builds, plans & occasionally threatens to nuke us.
the beautiful thing about sand islands is that they are fixed in place and they are likely to suffer liquefaction when a big enough bomb hits them.
The next step up is leave immediately or your will be fired upon. Our response should be Trumpian.
“The question is when push comes to shove will the US go to war over the area? “
Will the US continue to navigate military assets in this area?
Yes.
Will the US use military assets to ensure it can continue to do so?
A resounding yes.
We do not need to go to war to assert military power.
The US Navy, and combined services, will keep this artery open to navigation by all countries. If necessary we will kill and destroy to do it.
China will not go to war with the US. They are not capable of defending themselves sufficiently to avoid a complete rout.
This simply gives President Trump more justification to impose tariffs on China and impose other measures on them.
The very moment they fire on one of our airplanes or ships (it’s coming) then I hope President Trump imposes an immediate and complete trade embargo on the bandit regime that runs China.
WHY is the Navy flying CNN around?
Definitely a concern. One day, they'll make the mistake of firing on one of our aircraft and or ships.
That’ll be the end of their fake islands for sure, but will lead to a pretty ugly conflict with our trading frie....wait!
Tell me again why our government has allowed so much of our industry to be controlled by communist?
Pretty easy to take out each island with conventional weapons, administered through the auspices of the Phillipines, and even Vietnam— who really can’t stand the chi-coms. The Russians lined up on their border with North Korea, when the Chinese did the same on their borders. Russians don’t like these bases any more than we do. Might need to go way past old style detente.
Get the Japanese involved. After all, the chi-coms are merely replicating the old Empire’s Greater East Asian Cooperative Region (the original Japanese imperial expansion in the S. Pacific and over into the Indian Ocean). This is a big deal these chinee bases. And Diane Feinstein has some major splaining to do along with the clintoonians. She is some piece of work.
I wonder if Elon’s Boring company could build an underwater boring machine that undermines these islands.
But they promised!!!
Time to order Chinese takeout?