shockedcanadian
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This is how China expands without going to war. They will just send ships into a nations water limits, build artificial islands and do as they please knowing that nobody will dare stand up to them. For 30 years they have grown more and more brazen and clear on their intentions and for 30 years "leaders" have allowed them. Feckless, weak and soft.
They first laughed at Obama when they told them and the Philippines that they would leave the Scarborough Shoal, only to stay there and expand. This same CCP military funded by Western businesses. Much of the technology, stolen by spies.
China knows that they are dealing with the weakest Western leadership in history. Merkel happily sold out the U.S, France, now has approx. 25% of all their public debt owned by China. It's been a coup for them as many in the West have publicly supported, defended and done their dirty deeds. Anything to support them and get rid of the outsider, Trump.
They are going to steamroll us, even quicker than I had predicted. The level of influence decline the U.S risks is going to experience is going to dwarf Canadas lost influence. The weather excuse is absurd, especially since they have been there for a couple of months.
I wonder how Reagan would have handled this. Hell, even George W Bush wouldn't bat an eye to call this put publicly, loudly and react accordingly.
BEIJING (AP) — Bad weather prompted more than 200 Chinese fishing vessels to anchor at a reef claimed by the Philippines, Beijing said on Monday, sidestepping accusations from Manila of a move by China’s vast South China Sea maritime militia to assert control in the area.
However, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying pointedly told reporters at a briefing Monday that Whitsun Reef was part of the Spratly Islands, one of the main archipelagoes in the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in its entirety.
“Recently, due to the sea conditions, some Chinese fishing boats have taken shelter from the wind near the Whitsun Reef. I think it is very normal and hope all parties can look at it rationally,” Hua said at the daily briefing.
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana called on Sunday for China to “stop this incursion and immediately recall these boats violating our maritime rights and encroaching into our sovereign territory.”
The presence of the vessels was a “provocative action of militarizing the area,” Lorenzana said.
A Philippine government watchdog overseeing the disputed region released pictures from March 7 of the vessels moored side by side in one of the most hotly contested areas of the strategic waterway. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin tweeted late Sunday that the Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest over the Chinese presence.
They first laughed at Obama when they told them and the Philippines that they would leave the Scarborough Shoal, only to stay there and expand. This same CCP military funded by Western businesses. Much of the technology, stolen by spies.
China knows that they are dealing with the weakest Western leadership in history. Merkel happily sold out the U.S, France, now has approx. 25% of all their public debt owned by China. It's been a coup for them as many in the West have publicly supported, defended and done their dirty deeds. Anything to support them and get rid of the outsider, Trump.
They are going to steamroll us, even quicker than I had predicted. The level of influence decline the U.S risks is going to experience is going to dwarf Canadas lost influence. The weather excuse is absurd, especially since they have been there for a couple of months.
I wonder how Reagan would have handled this. Hell, even George W Bush wouldn't bat an eye to call this put publicly, loudly and react accordingly.
China denies incursion as 200 ships dock at Philippine reef
BEIJING (AP) — Bad weather prompted more than 200 Chinese fishing vessels to anchor at a reef claimed by the Philippines, Beijing said on Monday, sidestepping accusations from Manila of a move by China's vast South China Sea maritime militia to assert control in the area.
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BEIJING (AP) — Bad weather prompted more than 200 Chinese fishing vessels to anchor at a reef claimed by the Philippines, Beijing said on Monday, sidestepping accusations from Manila of a move by China’s vast South China Sea maritime militia to assert control in the area.
However, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying pointedly told reporters at a briefing Monday that Whitsun Reef was part of the Spratly Islands, one of the main archipelagoes in the South China Sea, which China claims virtually in its entirety.
“Recently, due to the sea conditions, some Chinese fishing boats have taken shelter from the wind near the Whitsun Reef. I think it is very normal and hope all parties can look at it rationally,” Hua said at the daily briefing.
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana called on Sunday for China to “stop this incursion and immediately recall these boats violating our maritime rights and encroaching into our sovereign territory.”
The presence of the vessels was a “provocative action of militarizing the area,” Lorenzana said.
A Philippine government watchdog overseeing the disputed region released pictures from March 7 of the vessels moored side by side in one of the most hotly contested areas of the strategic waterway. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin tweeted late Sunday that the Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest over the Chinese presence.