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"Go Now!": China Threatens US Spy Planes In South China Sea

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There's trouble brewing in The South China Sea, where Beijing has been using "scores of dredgers" to turn reefs into islands in the Spratly archipelago. Atop the new islands, China has been busy building things like cement plants and 10,000 foot airstrips capable of landing fighter jets and surveillance aircraft. 

China shares contested waters in the area with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and the US has made it all too clear that China's reclamation efforts constitute an unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions." That, along with reports that Washington is looking into options for countering China's island-building project, set up a contentious scenario that culminated in Beijing advising the US to "refrain from provocative action" in the area. 

Having thus set the stage, we bring you the following clip which shows what happens when US spy planes come a little too close to China's newly created military outposts.

 

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Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:16 | 6116339 Rock On Roger
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Did I write the USSR wasn't manufacturing war materiel in World War II?

 

Russians also used twenty five million lives to beat the nazis.

 

Why don't I hear about that 'holocaust'?

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:26 | 6116520 css1971
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Oil won WWII

War is the application of force against the enemy. Power is the application of force over time.

All fights are won by applying more force than the opponent can deal with, Wars are won by consistently applying more force than he can deal with. What allows wars to be won is energy and your ability to use it to apply force against the opponent.

WWII, the US of A had growing oil production. It's been declining since 1971. Energy powers manufacturing as well as machines of war.

Whoever increases energy production (and consumption) will be able to power their manufacturing and war machines on a larger scale and use it to apply force. The maths of war (Lanchester's laws) are fairly clear and simple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0goQrvf-tU

The Chinese are not idiots, there won't be a war until these charts cross each other.

USA energy consumption

Chinese energy consumption

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:44 | 6116813 Freddie
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WW2?  LOL!   The sociopaths like Rockefellers, Red Shield, Bush-Walker, BRown, Harriman, Dulles, et al were all back both sides.

Standard Oil aka Rockefellers aka Exxon-Mobil today provided Germany with Ethyl for anti-knock av gas.

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_04.htm

Even during the war - the spice flowed.  Without ethyl - the Luftwaffe could not fly.

Wars are all about looting countries, mass murder, war contracts, banksters enslaving nations and stealing their labor.  It never ends.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:56 | 6116847 STP
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Do not forget, that those clever Germans, figured out a way to turn coal into gasoline!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:51 | 6116833 STP
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Funny, you should bring that up.  That same factor also played a key role in the Civil War as well.  The North was heavily industrialised, and the South was mostly Agrarian.  Steel, guns and cannons were rolling out at a whole lot faster rate, out of the North, along with the associated advancements in Weaponry, like the repeating rifle and a new development, cartridges for the rifle, instead of stuffing a Minnie ball down the barrel.

But, the Military in the South, sure had the superior leadership!  RE Lee, Longfellow, Stuart and of course, Stonewall Jackson.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:03 | 6116496 The Ingenious G...
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I don't think it's so much that they hate America, but that they love money so much more.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:05 | 6116150 DrData02
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Are these islands closer to China than Hawaii is to, say, California?  Or the Falklands are to England?  Just wondering about that to gain some perspective.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:22 | 6116198 jack stephan
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we need at least 2 placemats these days for the new booties.  dribbling and snot nose, playing in the shit in a diaper.  most of you now just need to move, suck it. foreign wise.

 

https://youtu.be/QOrCZVdRndo

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:27 | 6116210 The Darwin Mode
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How dare China seek to establish military basing outside its continental borders! Those damn imperialists!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:39 | 6116224 rejected
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The ussa with 800-1000 bases around the globe got it's panty in a wad over China building bases in the South China sea. LOL

Here's a nice story...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/guam/80...

Oh what the hell,,, maybe keep the insane military busy over there rather then terrorizing us over here with more Jade Helm shit.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:46 | 6116231 atomicwasted
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The US would have simply shot them down.  They give us a "You Go!"  Who is more civilized?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:51 | 6116236 lolmao500
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Well Crimea was Stalin's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Black Sea and was a pain in the ass for Hitler...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:56 | 6116241 Joe Tierney
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CNN dons the 'blue dress' for OhBomba....

 

The Chi Knees aren't going to have any credibility until they shoot something down or sink something that belongs to the U.S. They're not ready to go for it right now. But the longer they wait, the harder it gets, unless they get a dollar collapse.

 

But China's pumping up the damn dollar, buying Treasury toilet paper and saying "PLEASE go away from our Islands". They sure don't have Putin's balls!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:00 | 6116243 yogibear
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Most young Americans are self-absorbed while watching the Kardasians. 

They'll only pay attention when the oligarchs want to make even more money for themselves and start a war with the young Americans fighting it.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:59 | 6116246 bigkahuna
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Oh, you're calling the (treasury) note? Well we're just going to have to not pay because you won't leave the "Japanese" islands and on top of that, it seems you want a piece of this action.

The pravda story of 30k tons of gold is starting to make logical sense. 

The Chinese go ahead and get a piece, the Americans selectively default on Chinese owned USTs, The USD takes a dump, PMs hit the sky, goldbugs spunk their pants right before bubba shows up with a shot gun - then the real numbers reduction can begin. 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:01 | 6116249 fzrkid
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You go nowwww, you fly plane 4 ouwah no land.. ufly ovah u stop and you buy.U no buy u no fly...

 

u no worry, we already copy u plane. hahaha made with pahts from my uncle shop cuz he give you good deal...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:01 | 6116872 STP
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The Chinese are already setting up to build Airbus aircraft on their own soil, as part of the purchase agreement with Airbus.  The European workers weren't too happy about that...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:08 | 6116254 luckylogger
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I used to think obummer was ok....

He is obviously the seacond calling of Carter.............

Noother president who meant alot better then the fuking dom nigger but still fuked up the usa for years....

Obama needs to go the sooner the better....

he suks and so does every thing any of his supporters say or do does..........

I cannot believe I supported such a fuking cull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His only positive atribute is he knows how to speak in public....

A president needs to know how to act in public and this idiot dont have a fuking clue....

Spends all his time trying to figure out how to fuk white boys in the usa when he is needed overseas....

What a fuking joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:09 | 6116255 juujuuuujj
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CNN is like government media now, always embedded with the army, never questioning, always part of the propaganda.

"...The more aggressively China warns away US aircraft"

US ships are thousands of miles from their own shores, yet it's China that's being "aggressive"? If China was poking around in the Mexican gulf, what would the US do? Everyone recognizes the US as a bully and sees the irony, except the US itself.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:49 | 6116682 The Wedge
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Actually, China is the bully here. Against other Asian nations. They just start building islands 600 hundred miles from their shores and claim control of that territory. The US doesn't poke around in the South China sea. The US does keep international waters open and free and have for many years. Do you think China would be willing to do that? Of course not. They want to control the South China sea so they can control trade throughout South Asia. They'll be fair about right? Sure.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:15 | 6116264 laomei
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Just a reminder.  There have been warnings, more than enough warnings.  Don't act surprised when you start hearing stories of missile locks and interceptions and the eventual shootdown.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:51 | 6116372 smacker
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Will it be a shoot-down of a military, or a civilian plane that strayed off route? hhmmm.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:19 | 6116271 Counterpunch
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And the US has a military presence there, why, exactly?

 

Freedom?

 

Democracy?

 

How about minding our own business?

 

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:54 | 6116319 laomei
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Because despite being able to gain most of the intel from satellites... this allows the military to intimidate like someone holding their finger an eighth inch from your eye and screaming "not touching you, not touching you, not touching you" over and over again... then getting all disingenuously angry and upset when that hand gets slapped.  That's all there is to it really.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:38 | 6116664 The Wedge
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Intel? What the hell are you talking about. They used a "spy" plane so they could show CNN video. This is just about China taking control of international waters.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:24 | 6116409 OZZIDOWNUNDER
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Agreed in full !   -- Fuck off USA - stick to your knitting -wankers.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:33 | 6116653 The Wedge
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This is about keeping shipping lanes open in international waters something the US has done for many decades. Something the entire world has benefited from (I know many here at the hedge wont like that but it's true). They're building "islands" in the middle of international waters and claiming territorial rights. Basically controlling the south China sea. I'm sure there is more to it especially considering China is not part of the TPP trade deal. China wants to project power globally. The way to do this is the way it has always been, with a powerful navy. This is first achieved by controlling the waters around her.

Mind our own business? I wish, I wish but you can't go from being the worlds only super power for decades and then suddenly retreat into the shadows as though the world will somehow not notice the enormous vacuum. China going to start making sure international waters are free and open? Please, of course not. China better at being the worlds hegemonic power? That was a rhetorical question. China and the US as equal powers balancing out like the old days of the cold war? I doubt that. China is not a lets share power kind of nation. This will likely end in the US folding considering they've already caved to the Chinese in a similar instance.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:20 | 6116273 onmail
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Moral of Story :

 

America to China : Handover all your 7000 tons of gold to US , for all gold belongs to US & US alone , or else...

 

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:08 | 6116905 STP
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If that is even remotely true, then it's 'Game Over'...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:21 | 6116275 The Blank Stare
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All bread and circuses for the masses keeping both the nations people distracted with this BS. They're working together, IMO.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:59 | 6116573 Zapporius
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.-

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:23 | 6116278 Counterpunch
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They sold the Chinese a bunch of US anti-missile missiles via Finland a couple year back.

 

Yeah... people noticed.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:29 | 6116284 Counterpunch
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for the auto-junker...

 

How 9/11 was done

 

you're welcome.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:31 | 6116287 Never_Put_Down
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I wonder what the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan say about this

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:56 | 6116323 laomei
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I wonder what the US said when they built up their island holdings for military purposes... oh right, nothing.  How DARE China do what everyone else does.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:01 | 6116490 Dr. Bonzo
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You're really enjoying your posts aren't being blocked or removed here like they would in the middle kingdom eh shitbird?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:26 | 6116574 Max Steel
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murican media deluded morons 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:07 | 6116396 AChinese
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Philippine and Vietnam have done the same thing for quite a few years already. China is catching up which caught Uncle Sam's eye.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:07 | 6116397 AChinese
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Philippine and Vietnam have done the same thing for quite a few years already. China is catching up which caught Uncle Sam's eye.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:01 | 6116492 Dr. Bonzo
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Bingo. China isn't winning itself any friends with this shit.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:22 | 6116515 Zapporius
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"We napalmed some folks"

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:30 | 6116581 Max Steel
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like us has friends really . they have vassals shithead .

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:36 | 6116979 Freddie
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Yeah - the Chinese should use drones on people cause that makes a lot of friends.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:52 | 6116306 dolbiere
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it's worse. evil is coming out of the woodwork. i forgot. i'm long tlt.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:07 | 6116331 basho
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bunch of dumb macho retards.

haven't got enough problems in the good old ussa.

let's stir up the pot.

tic toc

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:08 | 6116332 laomei
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I am actually curious what these islands are costing to build.  Because something tells me it's FAR cheaper than aircraft carriers.  Being able to lock down the area with some relatively cheap island bases rather than some very expensive and very sinkable carriers.. which would have to remain in the area at all times regardless.. and have to put up with US-instigated whining about every single movement.  Doing it this way, the islands are simply just a FACT, they exist, they are not going anywhere, they can be expanded, they can be modified.  The only downside is that they are, in fact, stationary and can be targeted.  However, carriers are little more than floating targets.  

 

Don't believe me? Then why does the US hang onto all those ww2 islands they gobbled up?  

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:46 | 6116469 Apostate2
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Sorry sport. The Ghinese gov.is building 4 new aircraft carriers. Recently announced.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:58 | 6116487 Dr. Bonzo
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Worked out well for the Japs.

 

Snicker.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:34 | 6116583 Max Steel
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There is a huge difference between both and moreover mic titbits lioe you think that usa can prevaio as world military might . ignorance is bliss knucklehead . Taste the truth  .

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:23 | 6116644 Dr. Bonzo
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Hahahaha.... struggling with Engrishee language? LMFAO. Look at this... wu mao flooding English language sites now too. Too funny.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:14 | 6116336 Firewood
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Merca had its Monroe Doctrine, Uncle Adolf saw that it was "good" and invented his own version, Lebensraum and now the Chinese have the Flying Dragon doctrine. Step back Merca or you will be burned!

 

First you may get singed but then you will be carbonized.

The end of the (fiat) paper tiger is nigh

http://www.silverdoctors.com/bill-holter-30000-tons-gold-truth-bomb/

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:21 | 6116344 smacker
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"...the US has made it all too clear that China's reclamation efforts constitute an unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions.""

That's awful. I mean, nobody else would do that. Ever.

/s

 

[note to file: avoid flying across the South China Sea on Delta Airlines]

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:33 | 6116355 farmerbraun
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O.K. I just got it!
Barry the Far Quit has just given his lecture to the US Coast Guard nursery on how AGW and rising seas are a massive threat necessitating a new "war on climate changers".
And here is China building some very low -lying islands in the sea , at considerable expense , which Barry insists are a threat to . . . well , who knows what. Who cares?

The Chinese are having trouble keeping a straight face.

Far canal ; too funny.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:09 | 6116442 Volkodav
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go away cnn...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:28 | 6116456 Q-Q-Q
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HUGE potential for something to kick off here, very worrying.

 

"They are working around the clock, even on weekends".........I guess that's 'shock and awe' Chinese work ethics.........US military responds by saying "we will take decisive action from 9am Monday morning when everyone turns up" :-0

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:56 | 6116482 Dr. Bonzo
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Yeah.... that's gonna be some war. 200,000+ Chinese at US universities, corporations and think tanks dug in like fucking tics in the middle of a hot shooting war... they hold a few sloppy trillion of our debt which in the balance doesn't mean fuckall anyhow, but they could certaintly kiss their export markets bye-bye overnight... and all over what? Some fucking starfish?

Talk about having their priorities straight.

As dumbfuck wars goes, this promises to be a doozy.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:47 | 6116511 Zapporius
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What export markets? You are buying shit with their money.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:53 | 6116476 Dr. Bonzo
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You gotta laugh at the thinking of these Chinese Masters of the Universe. Let's see... you buy property in Malibu... send your wife to NY to drop a kid so the kid gets US papers... stick absconded millions in Cayman banks... bribe Ghana govt so you can steal their raw minerals and snatch Southeastern shithole reefs from Philipino fishermen... because you can.

LMAO.

It's like the Chinese regret missing the 18th and 19th century because they were too busy flogging their peasant farmers to death and now they've come late to the party but they want their money's worth of looting and pillaging.

God, what a cunts.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:54 | 6116542 fingulas
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It was not uncommon during the peloponnesian war for the upper class in Athens to send thier youth to Sparta for traning.  It's interesting what kind of stuff goes on even during hostilities.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:03 | 6116551 Ghordius
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+1 only during civilized hostilities, though, not during "Total War, You Are Either For Us Or Against US" hostilities

another example would be when the Dutch trying to argue that trade among belligerents should be excluded from hostilities, as it was usual, then

but a different trading empire insisted on the "weaponization of trade"

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:45 | 6116589 Max Steel
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The world is laughing at brainwashed by murican yellow press stupid armchair generals . exceptionalism is eating your empty brains out . bunch of retarded cunts and sook run murica just like you .

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:14 | 6116631 atthelake
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The Chinese are not in Mexico or Canada the way America is in (Places that did not have a central bank) Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, South Korea, and, soon, Cuba. China has a right to be in the South China Sea. America is the bad guy here.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:03 | 6116495 Apostate2
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The PLA since the beginning of this month has had numerous articles quite rabid and ultra-nationalist on the 'internet' wars:  

'it will be difficult to fundamentally change the situation of Western monopolization of online hegemony, and its occupancy of the superior position in online information dissemination. The circumstances of online struggle are grave, complex and long-term, it is still generally the case that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the enemy is attacking and we are defending. Are we “mid-stream water” or is “the current flowing East”; are we “silent lambs” or are we “valiant warriors”, a time has come to choose, and a time where we must counterattack firmly. The “main force” must be brought onto the “main battlefield”. Only if our Army keeps close pace and stands in the front ranks, and counterattacks well, will it be possible to defend “online sovereignty” and build an “online Great Wall”!'

It is all of a piece. Ideology is the battlefield transmogrified to expanding the hegemon.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:52 | 6116597 Max Steel
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nothing is more rabid on internet than usa funded media doing yellow journalism spreading lies and agenda just to save their pathetic unipplarism and hegemony . Fcuk off to such activities practiced by usa and all those paid disinfo agents/trolls facilitating in spreading their BS .

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:28 | 6116647 Dr. Bonzo
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Dude, check out these downvote monkeys. ZH is being flooded by these so-called "50-cent" motherfuckers. These fucktards are called "50 cent tribe" in mainland, these are Chinese fucktards who get paid 50 yuan for every post they add to an online debate forum in an attempt to shape public perceptions in favor of the CCP. The commies do play dirty.

You'll notice the same guys posting on ZH China-related articles and heavily downvoting anything anti-China. You'll also notice they can barely string a coherent sentence together in English.

What's interesting is their emergence on English-language forums.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 10:23 | 6117152 One of these is...
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How much is 50 yuan worth? Have they not considered outsourcing the work?

A native english speaker shoudl be able to do it better and faster than a chinese can....

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:07 | 6117943 Zapporius
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You are one funny dude. Why would profficiency in english be an indicator of anything? How many languages do you speak? Hubris much? Sun revolves around the Earth, yes?

For example, english is my 4th language. :P

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:05 | 6116497 Rikeska
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The Chinese can't lose on this one. 

If we don't pull our aircraft back we are imperialist a-holes and they get to shout it to the heavens.

If they do get froggy and shoot down one of our boys down the Man-Child Choom Dude won't do anything and China gets more street cred in their sphere of influence.

Heathen Chinee know this.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:17 | 6116506 Zapporius
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yankee go home

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:36 | 6116527 Nocturnal Goyim
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China needs to follow the U.S. leed and bomb and overthrow sovereign nations rather than build silly islands.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:22 | 6116642 NoWayJose
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Don't we have satellites capable of reading the serial number off of a 1 inch metal plate sitting on the side of a Chinese dredge? If so, why send spy planes, except to provoke? Back when the US was a superpower with good leaders, the entire US Navy Pacific Fleet would steam right past those islands, and the Chinese would stop the dredges the next day.

It's a shame we pissed off Putin - had we remained in friendly terms with Russia we may have been able to form an alliance capable of stopping the Chinese. Instead, we will go bankrupt like the Soviet Union from overspending on our military in order to try to challenge the Russia-Chinese alliance.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:46 | 6116677 NoWayJose
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Maybe we could sneak a submarine close to those islands and release a couple endangered brown pelicans or spotted lizards or Zebra striped fishes. I'll bet the Chinese Fish and Wildlife Service would shut down the dredges!

And if that doesn't work, I am sure that there is a clause somewhere in the secret TPP treaty that we could use to make the Chinese stop building. The Chinese don't want to claim this is a military base, so clearly it must be for commercial trade and that would be covered under the TPP. Obama has the Chinese right where he wants them ...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:46 | 6116678 Wahooo
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Another sheeple report from CMIC. China challenging US dominance. Why can't the reporter ask Why are we flying spy planes over here? Why can't we mind our own business?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:16 | 6116744 yogibear
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It's all about Obama and the elitist creating a diversion from the economic problems.

A huge war creates profits and demand from destruction.

The elites have their bunkers in the southern hemisphere. 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 08:54 | 6116844 shovelhead
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Dumb Chinese building islands when they could just take over big islands already made like we did.

Goofy bastards.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:12 | 6116920 WillyGroper
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CNN that bastion of truthiness?

Sounds like the drums of war to me.

Nice Bose headphones at $250-$300 a pop.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 10:02 | 6117075 CrucialConfront...
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Creating islands in the sea? The nerve! The civilized way to get an island is drop nuclear bombs on a country's cities, install a "democratic" regime to do your bidding, and then just take any island you want to militarize. Or do a Diega Garcia. Or do a Grenada. Or - even without bombing - get yourself some vassal government that agrees to "bases" (much of the world).

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 11:23 | 6117093 Billy Bob101
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I've got an idea!!  Why not bomb them back to the stone age.  Then we can bring any survivors to the US to live on public assistance while we rebuild their islands for them.  All the while we can complain about how social security is bankrupting us and must be stopped.  How does that sound?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 11:31 | 6117448 Zapporius
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I think they would bomb you into enlightenment.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 12:26 | 6117698 Livermore Legend
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All issues come down to the RIGHT QUESTIONS.

How about these Questions:

How much Arable Land does China have, in Total and as a Percent of their Country ?

How many Mouths do they have to Feed ?

What is the Percent of Chinese Under 14 ?

What is the Percent of the Top Chinese 1 % that have US Visas v. the Same Percent for the Top US 1 % ?

How many Nuclear Warheads does China have v. just US SLBM Nuclear Warheads ?

How much GOLD would China need to back up its $ 28-30 TRILLION Ponzi of their own ?

If the US imposed a VAT Tax of 10 % how long would it take to FULLY LIQUIDATE ALL US TREASURIES held by China ?

The Answers to these Questions Demonstrate that the Level of IGNORANCE is Palpable; and likewise Demonstrate who is in the Driver Seat.   

An Oliver Twistian theme comes to Mind....

"Thank You Sir, May I have Another" ?

 

 

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:35 | 6118074 Flying Wombat
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No one in the mainstream media will openly admit that the main reason they are getting access to these spy fights now rests only on the fact that the US sees propaganda value in such embeded coverage, especially when it comes to furthering the meme of China as enemy (regardless of how you see China, enemy, frenemy or whatever).

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:01 | 6121495 Deres
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In the last decades, China has also build hundreds of HAS (Hardened Aircraft Shelters) on all its military airbases and tens of airbases with tunnel facilities under adjacent mountains and hill. Yes the same model that prevented NATO aviation to destroy serbian Migs29 for weeks. They have also built a full naval base on the island of Hainan. And three submarine base including tunnel facilities for the submarines with one on the Hainan island. Clearly an example of peacefull development ...

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