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China To Philippines: Stop "Roping In" Other Countries In Sea Standoff
Three weeks ago, Philippine President Benigno Aquino “went there” when, in a speech to Japanese lawmakers, the self-proclaimed “amateur student of history” compared China’s land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
This prompted Beijing to advise “certain people” in the Philippines to “repent” and “stop their provocations.”
Aquino would do neither.
Shortly thereafter, the Philippines aired a documentary entitled “Maritime Rights” designed to drum up domestic support for the government’s tough stance towards Beijing’s activities in the disputed waters around the Spratlys.
Since then, China has “completed” its dredging efforts and although the PLA admits it will use the new islands for military purposes, a new propaganda campaign has been launched, designed to show that despite attempts by the US and its regional allies to cast aspersions, island life in the Spratlys is all about girls, gardening, puppies, and pigs.
Apparently that wasn’t enough to calm Aquino’s fears of an impending Chinese blitzkrieg because as Reuters reports, tempers are once again flaring between Beijing and Manila with China accusing the Philippines of “roping” other countries in and attempting to incite a war. Here’s more:
China's military on Thursday accused the Philippines of trying to "rope in" other countries to the dispute over ownership of the South China Sea and stir regional tension after Japan joined a military drill with the Philippines.
According to Japanese and Philippine officials, a Japanese surveillance aircraft, with three Filipino guest crew members, this week flew at 5,000 feet (1,524 m) above the edge of Reed Bank, an energy-rich area that is claimed by both China and the Philippines. It was accompanied by a smaller Philippine patrol aircraft.
Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun, asked about the exercises, said that bilateral military cooperation between countries should benefit regional peace and security and not harm the interests of third parties.
"Certain countries are roping in countries from outside the region to get involved in the South China Sea issue, putting on a big show of force, deliberately exaggerating the tense atmosphere in the region," he told a monthly news briefing.
"This way of doing things will not have a beneficial effect on the situation in the South China Sea."
Earlier this week, Japan and the US joined the Philippines in conducting military drills near the disputed waters where China and others have conducted land reclamation projects. Here's Bloomberg:
The U.S. and Japan are conducting separate military drills with the Philippines near the disputed South China Sea, signaling support for the country as China builds out reclaimed reefs in the waters.
The annual CARAT Philippines joint exercise started Monday off the east coast of Palawan island and will run until June 26, according to U.S. Navy spokesman Arlo Abrahamson. The Philippine and Japanese navies are holding drills around the same island through June 27, Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force said last week.
The drill includes a sea phase with the littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth, diving and salvage ship USNS Safeguard and a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and at least one Philippine frigate, according to the U.S. Navy. It’s the first time a littoral combat ship has taken part in CARAT Philippines.
Japan’s exercises with the Philippines will take place adjacent to the Spratly Islands, where China has created more than 2,000 acres of land in waters also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia. Japan will send a P-3C anti-submarine, maritime surveillance aircraft and 20 personnel.
“The intent of CARAT is enhancing capabilities, navy-to-navy capabilities, increasing interoperability,” Rear Admiral Leopoldo Alano, commander of the Philippine Fleet, told reporters on Monday on Palawan. “These can be used both in wartime missions or missions other than war.”
The war games "should not be taken as an affront to any other and are an expression of cooperation and learning from all those involved,” an Aquino spokesperson said.
That's good to know, because when it comes to learning how to keep a tense situation from escalating into a full-blown military conflict, there's surely no better teacher than the US.
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I wasn't aware there's a South USA Sea right next to China's southern coasts.
The renaming will come when the TPP regional government prints a map of its territories.
china controlling those waters is better for the usa anyhow
phillipines ain't gonna do shit with them
at least with china will support it with far more shipping infrastructure and developer the oil and gas helping the world supply
leaving it empty or worse fighting over it is of zero benefit unless you believe china and usa will go to war .....lol
Leaving it "empty" leaves a healthy environment for hugely important fisheries. Drilling in that area practically guarantees the South China Sea will become another Gulf of Mexico.
It would be better for everyone if the bickering continued for another century, and the fisheries and coral reefs were allowed to thrive.
Of course the parts of the sea China is claiming aren't very close to China's coast either ...
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I left these shores, at Vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with the Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Philippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do.
I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of their own, put a miniature of the American constitution afloat in the Pacific, start a brand new republic to take its place among the free nations of the world. It seemed to me a great task to which we had addressed ourselves.
But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem.
We have also pledged the power of this country to maintain and protect the abominable system established in the Philippines by the Friars.
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
- Mark Twain
pretty sure proc doesn't give two shits about conquering 2nd world country
they want to control shipping and natural gas waters, not have to police another backyard
having an annoying but otherwise physically inept phillipines suits both the proc AND usa just perfect
They want natural resources, not mouths to feed.
Are you ready to ruuuummmmblllle!?!
Come out to plaaaay...................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRM2YcGpmxg
The USN is going to need a lot,lot more carriers groups.
Better start laying keels now, as it takes five years to build and commision them.
Plus the not insubstantial cost of each one , the aircraft,and its running costs.
This is where the rubber meets the road.Put up, or shut up seems to be the message.
it took 28 fleet carriers to subdue imperial japan, which only had 10% of the US industrial capacity. will 100 be enough this time around?
Duplicate post
That was WW2. Today, carrier battle groups are only useful for raping defenseless countries like Libya. They will all be sunk in the first half hour in a war with a real miltary, like China or Russia.
Now hold on a minute. Those sailors also have a habit of raping the locals at their foreign bases. Let's give them full credit. They've earned it.
Nice big targets for nuclear tipped high speed missiles and torpedoes.
And any CVN that survive a full azimuth barrage of ASCM and 200 knot wake homing torpedoes will find that the F-35 lacks the range to have any meaningful impact on the outcome without unduly risking the surviving CVN.
Before the smoke clears and the body counts are complete the entire woirld will have been fukashimaed.
The good news is that the markets will likely go up.
Helped a lot that the USN was reading the Japanese naval code.
My father was less than complimentary about the American 'glory hound' admirals
and the way they conducted operations.His opinion was they caused the death of
thousands of US seamen without good reason.Even though technically a neutral, he was
carrier pilot on one of the RN carriers out there,flying Hellcats and Seafires.
not to mention the pearl harbor treason of FDR
Or they could just throw missiles at everything China has in the water.
And what's to prevent China from doing the same to Guam, Midway, Pearl?
"The USN is going to need a lot,lot more carriers groups."
"Remember, there are two kinds of ships, submarines and their targets"
(can't find who said this. think it was a ussa naval guru)
Yea Pinoys.
Be a man!
Thrilla in Manila bitchez!
Possesion is 99% of law
The US is being drawn into a war in the east, (the South China sea) and the west (Eastern Europe) and it will be dealing with a nuclear Iran and Pakistan who will not stay at home. This new united enemy is pushing the US limits to the edge on in every front.
So you joined on here a few weeks ago just to tell jokes and shit, huh? That's a good one right there.
"The US is being drawn into a war..."
A real knee-slapper, that one.
Just warming up. Go on slap the knee. So where are the Philippines anyway and don't they provide female company for old white western guys? Is that it?
That's the first thought that comes to your mind? What, did you get demoted from Obama's advance crew in Colombia? You obviously pissed somebody off to get assigned to ZH. The real clue was that you do not know where the Philippines are, typical of American education system.
Good god man, you bought the entire enchilada with hot sauce on it. i am not American and happen to know where 99.9% of the worlds countries are on this planet. Assumptions, like yours, are the mother of all screw ups and that is because of the lack of education. Yes I pissed you off but I got to ZH because I think for myself and religious fanaticism does not play a part of my politics.
I'm sorry to hear that you think for yourself. You came up with the idea that the US is being drawn into war when the evidence points to the US drawing others into war all by yourself? I think you deceive yourself about your ability to think.
And what does religious fanaticism have to do with our conversation? BTW, you'll be disappointed to know that there are quite a few here who have deep interests in their own religious beliefs. Some may even be fanatical about it.
Don't worry about pissing me off. You can't. I had fun welcoming you. I give you a couple of weeks before you leave or change your name. If I don't see you again before then, have a great life. Just don't think too much for yourself.
You are delusional, that probably because your are a far right extremist hence the religious comment. The war is coming your way, not by choice. Sorry I ignore the welcome, you give the impression that your are important to yourself. I hope you have enough cash to pay for your part of the debt and maybe put a few dollars away for the next round of munitions.
Hardly being drawn. The empire of chaos is the aggessor and seems to want to go out with a bang.
Anyone dumb enough to go die for a corrupt country that passes TPP one day then rigs the court system the next day to keep ObamaCare afloat is a fool.
wake up numb-one
Tensions between China and US have been simmering for decades. Back around 2000/2001, US took down a low orbit satellite with a guided missile, claiming that it needed to be destroyed before it disintegrated entering the atmosphere and fell to earth . No big news. China went to work developing missile technology and, about a year later took down one of their own satellites. Nobody that I shared these incidents with could connect the dots. Essentially China and the US put one another on notice that they could take out each other's NAVSAT, COMSAT and guidance systems if things got hot. These 15 year old incidents may become relevant soon....
Any war the US will be drawn into is only from the vortex of swirling political hatred that it has caused in the lead up to any conflict anywhere in the world!
Wise up China!
America will do everything in its power to protect AT&T's customer call centers in Manila.
Oh joy. I recall when Pakistan and India were very close to nuke war a few years ago. The hope is all of India's call centers would be wiped out.
Now it is the Phillippines where they sound like some weird 1960s Disney dwarf characters with a lisp. I cannot stand talking to these people. Maybe I can wish for a hot war there.
This another fuck knob MSM piece. Why? Back in 1998, traveling heavily in south Pacific rim. China and Twain were pissing and moaning. I flew in on China Air. Kissed the red circle and pried that special air space into Taipei airport. It wasn't about me. The same central banker's of 2015.
Be careful Aquino. The Osama Bin Laden United States of America fairy tales still reside on islands. The Phillipines hate communism. Most left from China to migrate. We own ocean front commercial property in the Philippines.
Don't buckel, be strong.
LOL As if Aquino has a say in this other than what he is allowed to say. And if he tries to stray from the approved script, regime change would be his next problem. He should consult Hatoyama about that.
Zerohedge, you are pulling so many warlike headlines after my declaration of war.. strange coincidence?
http://just-a-thought-from-thinair.blogspot.com/
Yes, yes.
I hear rumour that your blog is at the top of Tyler's Must Read List.
So China's point is "Hey, do not call in your brothers when I want to bully you!".
What are they really all after in that area? If its really oil, why hasn't even one of them anchored a drilling rig? None of them seem to even have the capability.
Maybe what passes for the Phil Navy ought to hit one of the Chinese Shabu ships anchored in their territorial waters. Now there's a real threat.
I remember the fiasco in the ninties when the Philippine elites threw the Americans out of Subic and Clark. Lots of nationalistic chest thumping and the like.
This Chinese Spratly shit would NOT be going on if the American Navy was still in Subic.......but here we are.
The Philippine elites don't give a fuck, they all have a second home in Hollywood and a third in Pheonix.
Squid
A declining Empire is menacing and very harmful to the rest!
Yes, China is declining right now, but not that menacing.
lol yup wishful thinker china is declining rapidly and usa is once again after crisis is growing strongly and becoming more and more powerful . Happy .
A translation of China's message is, "Don't call in the US as we do not like it", if I was a Philipino I'd be calling the US every night after that and extending them every curtesy :)
ussa sockpuppet.
dumber than dirt.
the japanese walked over them the last time.
this time it will be the chinese.
Chinese translation: "Quit your bitching and reaching out to others so we can bully you!" Fuck the Chinese.
Bully ?eh ? Thet hvnt bullied filipinos idiot ..
Muricanos have Phillipines and Japan firmly in its camp. Even Australia is thinking about the wisdom of aligining itself with Murica, which they eventually will in the end since they are controled by the Khazarian cabal from City of London and Washington DC just like Murica is. South Korea has already decoupled from Western Khazarian ship.
... just a little research ...
... this "chinese hatred" purportedly paraded in the news by the current Philippine president is a red herring ... a kabuki show to deflect the "real" Chinese oligarch contributions and connections that run the Philippine economy ...
... president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, the son of the eleventh president Corazon and the late senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. (who was gunned down - allegedly - by Marcos' henchmen at the Manila airport which now bears his name) is himself of Chinese origin and part of the uber-wealthy Chinese oligarch Cojuangco clan ... >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cojuangco ...
... here are some of the other Chinese oligarchs that virtually control the Philippine economy and Philippine politics (there are more Chinese oligarchs ... too numerous to mention ... but these guys listed below, some say, control more than 80% of Philippine GDP ...
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sy
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gokongwei
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Tan
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tan
... >>> http://www.manilatimes.net/realities-of-philippine-oligarchy/96866/
... so next time the Philippine president talks about "Chinese aggression", kindly remind him of his "Chinese connection" and that Japan massacred millions of Filipino men, women and children when they invaded the Philippines in WW2 ... and China's "invasion" by the oligarchs resulted only in massive job creations for the poor Filipinos ...