Posted on 07/06/2020 9:29:33 AM PDT by silent majority rising
The US sent two carrier groups to the South China Sea in a show of force intended to intimidate China in its aggressive takeover of a disputed archipelago. China responded by boasting of its “wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons”, claiming that the mega-warships operated “at the pleasure of the PLA [People’s Liberation Army]”. The response by the US Navy was short and to the point: “Not intimidated.”
The decision to send the two nuclear-powered carriers, the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald Reagan, into the South China Sea for dual-carrier operations and exercises was bound to ruffle the feathers of the Chinese government. This is the first time since 2014 that two carriers have been in the region and China is currently conducting a five-day drill around the Paracel Islands.
The Paracel Islands, essentially an archipelago, is a group of 130 islands approximately equidistant from the coastlines of the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam and also in proximity to the Philippines. The archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and a seabed with potential, but as yet unexplored, oil and gas reserves. As such, they have long been the focus of a dispute between the three countries.
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I did see side by side pics 10 years apart, and there is a definite change in the structure.
A little “nudge” would probably work.
Think it will work?
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From what I see around the web, Chinese incompetence is already insuring that 3 Gorges breaches.
Interestingly enough, it threatens Wuhan. Way to wipe away all evidence?
From what I have read about Three Gorges Dam, is that it the weight of the water held in its reservoir is causing deformations in the rock the dam is built on top of, compressing it and causing subsidence of the underlying foundation, very bad. There have been numerous earthquakes resulting from this yielding of the foundation rock and once it starts to move it will be horrendous in lost of life and property.
When the American Dams were planned they spent years investigating the sites and geology to be sure they would be no problems. In China, not so much. It is more like build it here, no questions, understand.
The quality of construction in China is not remotely of the quality of what we build here in the USA.
It would be a REAL SHAME if that “Three Gorges Dam” thingee “sprung” a leak......
...just sayin’.....
Yup. One fire and forget cruise has a hell of an impact.
353FMG wrote: “Three Gorges Dam and people downstream are in great danger.”
Yes, from just one tungsten rod from space...
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Leftists are notorious for lying to themselves.
I goes back much further. All the way to Nixon. The aid to China continued right through the Reagan administration.
We have given a trillion dollars in aid, and winked as they stole another trillion dollars in intellectual property rights, in the last 45 years.
All based on the stupid theory that they will "liberalize" as their economy becomes more capitalist.
Did.
Not.
Happen.
Read the Hundred Years Marathon.
It worked for Cuba, er wait, what?
Before starting a war with China we must rid ourselves of the Chinese 5th column in our universities, MSM, Antifa and any anti-American entity. We are too transparent a asociety and can easily be spied on especially in absence of a trustworthy FBI.
The USA could nuke China many times over before a missile from China could even leave the ground. They cannot be possibly that stupid, can they?
Yes BUT we knew in 2004 that traitors had leaked naval technology to the Chinese. Why didn’t Bush change USA relations with China THEN? My guess is it was all about the money and opportunity to trade with China.
Maybe not stupid, but perhaps blinded..
Just a few weeks ago, The Donald signed an order to kick out any students associated with the Chi-com military or their military industrial complex.
Honest, the Chinese are not good people.
There are good Chinese and bad Chinese, and mostly those with mixed results.
It is very hard to be "good" in a totalitarian regime.
Yes, frankly I hope nothing happens prior to the election. The last thing Trump needs is the image of being a warmonger, which is what the press will paint him as, if violence broke out with China,.
>>the Chinese are not good people.<<
The CCP are definetly not good people. The chinese are just victims — all 1.3 billion of them.
The destruction of Beijing will set off a chain of unknown events — both good and bad for the West.
And the rain continues to fall, locust continue to swarm and ruin crops and bubonic plague rears its ugly head and no friends reaching out to help. It’s like being in a slow boat to China and having engine trouble while steaming toward a hurricane.
Let me amend that, please.
The communist Chinese wish world dominance. They are not good people.
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