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Furious China Summons U.S. Ambassador, Slams Obama Decision To "Threaten Peace" With Warship Challenge
Update: CHINA SUMMONS U.S. AMBASSADOR OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA PATROL: CCTV
Well, the USS Lassen sailed within 12-nautical miles of Subi Reef and surprisingly, World War III did not break out overnight.
(USS Lassen)
(Subi reef)
Nine months of tension between Washington and Beijing over the latter’s land reclamation efforts in The South China Sea culminated on Monday with President Obama’s decision to send a guided missile destroyer to China’s man-made military outposts on a “freedom of navigation” exercise. As we put it on Monday evening:
"The ball is now squarely in China's court. The question now is whether Beijing will back down and concede that "sovereignty" somehow means something different with regard to the islands than it does with respect to the mainland or whether Xi will stick to his guns (no pun intended) and take a pot shot at a US destroyer."
In short, some feared that based on recent rhetoric out of Beijing (e.g. the PLA will “stand up and use force”) that China might actually fire upon the US-flagged vessel or at least move to surround it in what might mark the first step on the road to war.
Ultimately, that didn't happen as China apparently decided to take the high road for now and avoid an escalation that might have had far-reaching consequences.
That said, Beijing isn't happy. Here's more from Bloomberg:
China said it will take “all necessary measures” to defend its territory after the U.S. sailed a warship through waters claimed by China in the disputed South China Sea, a move the government in Beijing called a threat to peace and stability in Asia.
“The behavior of the U.S. warship threatened China’s sovereignty and national interest, endangered the safety of the island’s staff and facilities, and harmed the regional peace and stability,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said in a statement today. “The Chinese side expressed its strong discontent and firm opposition.”
The comments came hours after the USS Lassen passed within 12-nautical miles of Subi Reef, an island built by China as a platform to assert its claim to almost 80 percent of one of the world’s busiest waterways. By passing so close to the man-made island, the U.S. is showing it doesn’t recognize that the feature qualifies for a 12-nautical mile territorial zone under international law.
The patrol marks the most direct attempt by the U.S. to challenge China’s territorial claims and comes weeks after President Barack Obama told President Xi Jinping at a Washington summit that the U.S. would enforce freedom of navigation and that China should refrain from militarizing the waterway.
In a strongly-worded statement, Lu said the USS Lassen had “illegally” entered Chinese waters and that “relevant Chinese departments monitored, shadowed and warned the U.S. ship.” China has “indisputable” sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and surrounding waters, Lu said.
“What the U.S. is doing now will only damage the stability in the South China Sea, and send the wrong message to neighboring nations such as the Philippines and encourage them to take some risky behavior,” said Xu Liping, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government-linked institute.
While it's not entirely clear what professor Xu Liping means by "encourage the Philippines to take some risky behavior," it's worth noting that Washington's provocation is in some respects explicity designed to embolden America's regional allies. That is, this isn't going on in Washington's backyard. This is simply the US responding to calls from its friends in the South Pacific to counter what they view as Chinese aggression by letting Beijing know that Big Brother isn't going to stand for any bullying from the PLA. That gambit appears to have paid off - for the time being.
As for what comes next, Malcolm Davis, an assistant professor in China-Western relations at Bond University on Australia’s Gold Coast tells Bloomberg China could move to set up a no-fly zone:
China may choose to respond without directly challenging U.S. ships with its Navy or coast guard. It could declare an Air Defense Identification Zone over the South China Sea, or speed up the militarization of the area by deploying extra forces, including combat aircraft, to the islands.
“The ball would then be back in the U.S.’s court,” Davis said. “A Chinese attempt to enforce an ADIZ over the South China Sea would increase tensions with its neighbors, most notably Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia, and they would place increasing pressure on Washington not to back down.”
In other words, China doesn't need to fire on a US destroyer to ratchet up the pressure. Beijing can simply continue to do what it's done up until now; that is, militarize the region and essentially dare the US to take action beyond sailing by and waving.
We suspect we'll see plenty of new satellite images over the coming weeks and months which purport to show the extent to which the PLA is beefing up its defenses in the face of unnecessary (not to mention extremely petty) posturing on Washington's part.
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Worst leader since Chamberlain
Are there any HOSPITALS on the Spratlys? We’ve become very efficient at bombing’em.
That would show the belligerent Chinese that we are there to protect the freedom of navigation and the TPP. ;-)
Looney
No hospitals but there's two very nice wedding parties scheduled for tomorrow.
It will now be our fault when the Chinese militarize the islands. "We had to install military bases so that we could protect the islands from the US."
… No hospitals but there's two very nice wedding parties scheduled for tomorrow.
And after we bomb the shit out of the two weddings, there will be funerals which we can bomb too. ;-)
Looney
"The behavior of the U.S. warship threatened China’s sovereignty and national interest, endangered the safety of the island’s staff and facilities, and harmed the regional peace and stability."
Yawn, so what else is new for the USSA MIC? This is what they do, create global hostility against Amerika, so they can extort more money from dumbed down domestic wage slaves.
Gee I wonder why China didn't take their complaint to the UN.
Fuck China. What's the US supposed to do, back down? Not a chance. At the end of the day, say what you may about the government, but the US military is still the most powerful military on earth.
By Jingo! you forgot to add "By Jingo!" to your phrase
Gee I wonder why China didn't take their complaint to the UN.
I stand in the presence of brilliance.
Can we move the UN to China? They've got the facilities...just sitting there empty.
“The ball would then be back in the U.S.’s court,”
No, the fucking ball would be in US's court if this soon-to-be underwater square mile was 4500 miles east northeast, by jingo.
All I know is....we're freakin fighting.....everywhere.
Fightclub....all over the world.....can you feel the love?
Actually o has reduced most all of fighting in ME. Now its time too roll in the South China Sea, whoa go Navy, Air Force & Marines. lol Show them mofos a real deal...
Obama to Xi:
t's all good Bro, why u mad?
(or at least this is how I imagine the state of US foreign relations at the present time). Do you speak Jive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSLcYQHqFQ
Dear whiny chinese bitch, that's not chinese territorial waters, but as long as you are whining that it is we will continue to go out of our way to show you that it isnt. Everyone is free to sail through, whiny bitchez. For all mankind. Yeah ok thats nasa's motto, but bottom line we are to see that everyone can sail through.
...
So the main character from Mortal Kombat is a ChiCom and summoned the US Ambassador.. who'dve thunk it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Kang
"Actually o has reduced most all of fighting in ME."
killed 300,000 syrians recently, so that's some fighting (got to count the surrogates as well). the more important point is that he, together with bush, have succeeded in greatly empowering iran, hezbollah and russia which is not, as i understand it, what they wanted to do in the first place.
so, although he is (to quote him) "really good at killing people", at grand geostrategy he sucks.
badly.
nothing is going to happen. Yawn.
They're sending 200.000 ISIS members to Michigan....something's about to happen there.
I hope they get along with the 50,000 Somalis Barry imported there.
Moar diversity is wonderful!
Don’t forget Minnesotamalia.
..or Kansascitomalia
We be looking like O mo and mo.
After being ask whether China and the US's flagging economies would induce their respective leaderships to foment or
over dramatize a confrontation to divert the public's attention away from economic issues, a Chinese spokesman, Mai Wa Tah,
incredulously responded "We Kah Bu Ki !!!", Then when asked if he realized Kabuki was a Japanese word he replied "Fuk Yu !!!".
This prompted another correspondent to ask if the two nations' behavior wasn't reminiscent of a couple of street thugs locked
in a petty territorial feud, Mr. Tah then angrily yelled "We Gang Bang !!!" and stormed from the podium.
International maritime law stipulates that a submerged rock outside of a nation's territorial sea (generally 12 nautical miles) can't be claimed as territory by any nation. Per Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra_Rock
The islands are submerged rocks, you cannot claim them.
They are illegal. And by China's own position on Socotra Rock they contradict maritime law. And that my fine fellows is why they did not, and will not go to the UN over this.
they're not all submerged rocks. but your point is well taken regarding those that are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea
More importantly, anyone with a map can see that the disputed territory is in someone else's backyard.
But, but, but... if you're to believe this blog post's propaganda, China has engaged in lawful "land reclamation efforts".
The rocks must have been land at some point, and the sand castles are just a reclamation of Chinese land, right?
They're not even rocks, they're piles of coral and skeletons of ocean life piled on top of each other for millenia. On top of this pile, near the surface, growth continues, so these islands continue to grow on their own when left alone. The Chinese have essentially just ruined the natural state of coral atolls for their own military and political gain. Every environmentalist in the world should be up-in-arms over what they did.
China did this because they want to control shipping in the busiest shipping lane in the world from the air.
China: "Peace through territorial expansion."
USSA: "Peace through war."
Payback for that missile launched by Catalina island a couple years ago?
pods
I heard rumors the weddings are in the hospital chapel...oi vey!
Too tempting for the Nobel Piece Prizze Winner to pass up!!
No one has really noticed that Drs without Borders is really France's attempt to take over the world.
They have beachheads in Hospitals in every hotspot in the world. I would not even put it past them to putting a Hospital with wedding facilities at the end of makeshift runway on this island.
Those crafty beret wearing frogs...
france's attempt to take over the world died with napoleon.
China's now adding their "Iron Dome" defenses over hospitals and wedding parlors.
They are champions of virtue posturing, however. Drs without borders are their special forces of preening.
That one really went nicely under the rug, didn't it?
Obama is doing his best to glue Russia and China together against the US.
I bet he's a Putin's agent.
it just seems too many mistakes for accident, doesn't it?
Jingoism is so 19th century. Let's invade Cuba again and get on with the war. Think of all the uniforms and shiny medals and parades. The sound of tanks in the streets would be so invigorating. It will all be great fun right up until the moment somebody turns out the lights.
It's more about our politicians' weak use of their strong capabilities.
they are so not worthy of most of the women and men they "command".
Keep dreaming. US couldn't even defeat a bunch of rag tag Taliban. When the ranks are filled with ghetto and white trash, you can
see why.
imo it's more the difficulty of defeating guerillas in their own country, particularly now with cheap electronics. take ieds. for peanuts the guerillas could take out tanks and troop carriers with an old artillery shell, a blasting cap and a cell phone. not a bad cost/benefit ratio.
the colonists outlasted the british empire.
the philippines almost defeated the u.s. in the early twentieth century for goodness sake.
vietnam did beat the french and then the u.s. it took them thirty years or more but they did.
time is not on our or israel's side.
See "rules of engagement" obama wants the US military to lose and feel like losers. Its who he is.
But they sure can throw together a good rendition of La Cage aux Folles at a moments notice.
HAHAHAHAHA turn off the FoxNews you're making yourself look bad
If you get to an airport lounge.....you should definitely check out CNN.
And your point is???
Yah, yawn...the most powerful military on earth. Its been eleven years fighting the Taliban and we still haven't beaten them. Russia has fought ISIS for one month and ISIS is 40% destroyed.
the majority of isis is not syrian. makes a big difference.
I have all the world that destroyer Barry is sending there, the 'USS Don't Ask Don't Tell,' will send the Chinese the proper message.
Who is commander in chief presently? And for the last 7 years in Afghanistan? Their rules of engagement on the ground are borderline preposterous, to such a degree you'd have to assume obama wants our forces their demoralized and damaged from the experience.
Really? The perception by others is quit different ... the most prominent stories in various military associated publicayions prior to this Chinese showing muscle.....two females passing the first leg of the Ranger school...follow up on that 6 days running, transgender issues front and center, and for days on end the new army policy allowing more freedom for females to breastfeed their infants...not just one ir two stories but day after day...of course removal of more and more mid level officers for what appears not being PC enough, throw in problems with F-35.....the perception is...the USSA is committing military suicide because it has become an outlet for social engineering and weapons system that are worthless....the topper, the Russians are doing in a few weeks what the USSA could not do in over a year. Over a period of time...the military has been turned into an experiment for a bunch of left wing morons or chicken hawk neocons to play soldier with. Feminized and trended to death...exceptions MIGHT be special ops out of Tampa or mercs...sort of kind of. The day the US military was turned into an experiment by a bunch of cultural marxists and crazed feminists plus PC perfumed princes careerists at flag rank........it was over.
not being PC enougj
mostly horse poop.
the u.s. armed forces didn't defeat isis because they weren't supposed to. feminism had zero to do with it however much pain feminism has caused you.
Ignore the negative ballots. There are lots of loopy China lovers here, fantasmically enamored to the pigtail kingdom. These feverish fans should all go join the PLA and live on forty cents a week, or get a job in some spatula, spoon and fork factory in China at three and a half dollars a month. Familiarity breeds contempt. And eating dogs and cats has limited appeal regardless how much ginger is applied.
The game now is about getting China to jump. What this incident says is Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has a nice residential property picked out in SanDiego. And when he flees China with several suitcases stuffed full of cash, he doesn't want to get held up at the border.
China is asking for tens of thousands of flew-the-communist-coop formerly pigtailed oligarchs to be extradited from the U.S. where they now reside quite comfortably.
"but the US military is still the most powerful military on earth"
All that power was made moot by nuclear weapons, which is why you haven't seen any direct conflicts between nuclear powers EVER. Total war is limited to situations where both sides aren't nuclear armed.
But, of course, now the Russians and the Chinese have new ultra fast, ultra long range cruise missiles that can take out a carrier in an instant, a fact that COMPLETELY negates the conventional US navy. Never mind that Chinese subs have shown that they can sneak right into the center of a carrier group in the middle of conducting war games completely unnoticed--until they surface.
The Chinese should run away when they hear of our victories in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Syria.
... on seond thought ....
"but the US military is still the most powerful military on earth."
Not anymore. Obama is appointing more gays and transgenders in top postions to destroy whatever is left of the US miliary.
Russia took care of what took the US several months to accomplish with European forces involved.
Great Scott!!! I do hope that you are kidding here. Military force between the big boys used to be proxy wars; that is sooooo 1950's. And direct warfare between nuclear powers is unwinnable. The new power is economics. China knows that they dont have to fire a single missile to win. They are the MANUFACTURING base of the US. Imagine, if you will, what would happen if China decided on a 90 day embargo on shipping any products to the US. What will the Caytlin Jenner fans do without their latest iCrap 6+??? What would happen to the medical services in the US when the Chinese made medical supplies (bags for IVs, syringes, bandages and other supplies) are no longer available? What do you think will happen when Wall-Mart, Target, et al. have to shut their doors do to lack of products. Now expand that to the auto industry, telecommunications, power production and distribution, mining, logging, etc. all who depend on Chinese manufacturing?
Who wins?
Yo Kaa,
You forget, the Chinese don't have to shoot at us with bullets, they can shoot at us with T-Bills and do much more damage. This will damage them too, but you can bet they are waiting for the "right" time to blow us out of the water economically...
;-D
Fuck China. What's the US supposed to do, back down? Not a chance. At the end of the day, say what you may about the government, but the US military is still the most powerful military on earth.
It's time to peel the McCain/Palin bumper sticker off of your lifted F-150, son.
They are the army of homosexuals you stupid fucker
US Ambassador: "China shouldn't complain too much. Our sailors are simply putting this 'Protecting shipping lanes' to the test, by steaming toward some Chinese Take-Out on the islands".
Chinese Ambassador: [momentary silence at the US insolence. About to speak, but gets cut off in typical American fashion]
US Ambassador: Speaking of 'steaming', you seem somewhat lathered up.
Gee, doesn't this prove the US is #1 after all?
Yeah you're right LL, that's not particularly news. What caught my attention was...
Let me first say, I have an extremely dim view of China. It is a bizarre cauldron of Maoism, consumerism, and old fashioned oriental tyranny. Both China and the USA are the prime engines of this new world order beast system (note that our overlords praised, openly, Mao's excretions of vileness.)
With that in mind, the professor is correct. This is NWO modus operandi: In order to produce a conflict, certain interested parties have egged on weak 'allies' to pick fights with regional powers.
Though controversial, a good example of this was Poland and Germany. The UK's powers gave Poland all kinds of assurances of support in the event of a conflict. Poland did do a lot of barking as a result and was rather unkind to the ethnic Germans within her borders.
Well, we sure know how that ended: Total, absolute, and full betrayal of Poland by the odious drunkard Churchill. Germany romped Poland and then the Soviets continued the domination.
I would want to think that the Philippines are not so stupid as to nuzzle up to Uncle Sam's faux-mammary venom sac. But human nature being what it is, I would not be surprised if Manila does something dumb.
But don't forget, before we bomb the funerals we have to bomb the first responders to the intitial wedding party bombing. That is always a crowd pleaser with the folks back home in the US.
You all seem to have forgotten the women collecting firewood on the hillside. Firewood, dammit! A threat to this great nation!
Legitimate question. Is the US intelligence community so idiotic that it can't decipher between weddings and biannual terrorist membership meetings or are they so crafty that the bombings are intentional to perpetuate an enemy? I.e. "Your bombs killed my mom, sister, and brother! Allahu Akbar!(b0000m)
i'm going with the latter.
no one wants to be unemployed involuntarily.
that's part of why we had 9-11 of course. the rest was to get us down in the hole israel's in.
China will be the #1 economy soon. Protecting shipping lanes is part of the job.
I don't think they are going to go through all that trouble to build an island just to install a coin-op laundromat.
no, and with this behavior by the u.s. they can put nearly any military installation on it and justify it by the actions of the warmongering peace prize winner.
Yeah, you'd think stealing other people's islands was a crime or something. Poor Chinamen.
China needs to set up a diplomatic attache on the islands. We could bomb that, just like Belgrade.
That P.O.S. is fundraising in Chicago today...
and Sucking dicks tonight you can bank that
Don't have a war? Start one! War Department is getting bored.
I will believe there is a problem when we stop buying the plastic shit from China....then you should worry.
I think we might worry that minutes after the incursion The yen suddenly soared for no reason and oil and markets soured because of it. I don't see anything where China says "we will respond by kinetic means". What I'm most concerned about is that gold an silver didn't respond as well as stocks and bonds.
Saudi Arabia doesn't sell oil to the highest bidder, oil is handed out for protection. US is still far more capable of projecting power to protect them than China.
China could promise to go to war against Iran to sweeten the pot, which the US is unwilling to do for the moment much to Saudi Arabia's (and Israel's) chagrin, but then they'd be in opposition to Russia and I don't think they want to be.
no. they don't.
although neither is truly secure, imo the chinese government is more stable than ksa.
the oligarchs are running out with stolen money on occasion but the saudi princes are getting caught with tons of drugs in lebanon and a bloody woman trying to climb a compound wall in california.
it's just more colorful and more damning.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=saudi+princes+recen...
Cocksuker is no leader. I piss on the ship and crew that followed his order.
Fuel cost is down, Obama can afford to send the destroyer to go by few more times.
Worst since Roosevelt.
not even close. roosevelt did many good and bad things. of the former, glass steagall for starters. name one good thing obama has done. maybe the latina on the supreme court and that's stretching.
obama is the worst president since george bush the younger and together they are the worst presidents ever.
ever.
Worst since Roosevelt.
created the fdic and abolished prohibition.
http://politicsreport.com/news/5-fdr-accomplishments-that-changed-america
bush did 9-11. that's got to count for something.
Obama is screwed either way. If he doesn't do anything, like in Syria, he is a weak leader. And when he does something in the South China Sea, he is the worst leader since Chamberlain (which is an interesting comparison since Chamberlain didn't do anything to stop Germany). Guess some want him to stand up to an irrational leader in Putin over a country that nobody carries about versus making a stand against the Chinese who are trying to claim eminent domain over reefs in the middle of open ocean and in the middle of valuable sea lanes.
Someone doesn't quite have their ducks all lined up.
The diplomatic blah, blah, blah is just p.r. for the masses.
That Chinee Mao knew the reality -
"Political Power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Here we go, 10, 9, 8, 7......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/10/time-travel-is-no-l...
BHO only cares about death & destruction, and power.
n-reggie's brown snake
America has gone off the deep end. Something needs to be done about them.
can't believe a country would do this...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-naval-shi...
Minus 100 for citing GW as fact.
ever heard of google dipshit? take your pick of news sources
the citation is to the washington post, a fairly well known newspaper.
They should do what the Soviets used to do .. just ram the shit out of their ships.
Iceland's and Britain's fish trawlers and warships once played that game too, over a 200 miles exclusive economic zone all around Iceland
edit: now I've found it. I did not know or remember anything about this incident, thank you for hinting about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Black_Sea_bumping_incident
"The Black Sea bumping incident of 12 February 1988 occurred when American cruiser USS Yorktown tried to exercise the claimed right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea during the Cold War. The cruiser was bumped by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetny with the intention of pushing the Yorktown into international waters. The incident also involved the destroyer USS Caron which, while also claiming the innocent passage, was intentionally shouldered by a Soviet Mirka-class frigate SKR-6. The Yorktown reported minor damage to hull, with no holing or risk of flooding. The Caron was not damaged.
At the time the Soviet Union recognized the right of innocent passage for warships in its territorial waters solely in designated sea lanes.
The United States believed there was no legal basis for a coastal nation to limit warship transits to sea lanes only.
Subsequently the U.S. Department of State found that unlike the English-language text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Russian-language text of Article 22, paragraph 1 allowed the coastal state to regulate the right of innocent passage whenever necessary. Following the incident, the Soviet Union expressed a commitment to resolve the issue of innocent passage in Soviet territorial waters. "
which direction will the "Red Line" float when obama paints in on the ocean?
In the direction of Osama's corpse
Why do the Tylers use that pic of that guy from "24" as the Chinese leader?
(it does look cool though)
Chinese will fire a few shots over our bow and we'll ducktail and run. Chinese know this.
You're delusional...
Chinese response: Lets see how the US handles 12 miles of US treasuries.
Pre planned show. U.S. stays out of 12 mile limit recognising Chinese ownership.
"The Chinese side expressed strong discontent and firm opposition."
Translation: "The Chinks were pissed!"
Here in Europe, they also aired it on the news but here they told us that it was a conflict about the resources in the regio.
There's not enough preplanning I guess as everybody is telling other reasons to it's citizens.
well, I too have the impression that all this Chinese insistence about the 12-miles zone is only a preparation for the successive insistence over a hundreds-of-miles exclusive economic zone
and it would fit the way China tries to do things. carefully, methodically, one layer after the other
next: China's new BFF, Great Britain. What is the former Champion of the Freedom of Navigation going to say about all this?
They'll say whatever their Israeli paymasters tell them to say.
The fools who wrote the maritime laws instituted socialism on the seas, and surprise surprise, people are exploiting the nonsense of socialism for personal gain--and the Chinese are MASTERS of that particular trade.
The solution is to scrap current maritime law and allow "homesteading" of land beneath waterways by individuals. Technology has progressed to the point now that there is not much difference between a modern undersea colony (allowing a territorial claim) and a circa 1575 overseas colony (allowing a territorial claim).
The deepest oceans might be too difficult to allow for homesteading, so they can be treated just like unclaimed territory once was. IE its up for grabs to whoeer can get there first and hold it. But for the vast majority, submarine patrols would be fine.
As for navigation, if you have mixed your labor with that watery land, you own it, so you can prevent navigation by building a fence, just like we do on land.
Too bad it won't happen until some large group of brave souls actually go out and build a habitat on the seafloor and declare themselves a nation. And then another one, and then another, with military power.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
4th grade beef
Anything more than a response of North Korea in nature would've been shocking.
Are Abe and Obama political doppelgangers?
Are Abe and Obama two gay little fucks who haven't got a clue what they're doing?
Is this the way Barry plans to get oil prices to rise?
Why is this the business of the US?
let me guess: you went to sleep in the year 1897 in America and just woke up. let's start with this: those damn Spaniards blew up the Maine
No they didn't. Try again.
Why is this the business of the US?
In case you haven't noticed....most of the free crap comes from China.
Don't be so sure that this doesn't escalate into some major event. Throughout the last 300 year history it has been the aim of the banksters to foster war to produce a chaos that they can profit from on both sides. There are now some cracks in the NWO agenda and the propaganda is becoming oh too obvious. What better distraction from the upcoming gloabl economic implosion?
The US is just a bully with a glass jaw. As soon as the US get's punched it will probably all fall down.
> Peace prize 2 ?
> Stupid homosexual and banker's puppet ?
Aren't all puppets homosexuals with that arm shoved up their ass and all?
For a half mil. 5 year grant, I'll find out.
Let me guess your conclusions: more research necessary. Another $500k please.
There has been some translation error.
Sweden was originally trying to give Obama a PIZZA as a prize for being elected.
It all went downhill from there.
Pure propaganda...does not even merit the word news. A distraction for those who are easily distracted. Fear-mongering is a common propaganda tactic because people who are afraid are more compliant than they might be otherwise. Uncertainty breeds fear and fear makes people cautious...they freeze. It helps the people in power retain power but it hurts the real economy, not that the people in power really care much about that...yet.
"Update: According to reports in on Monday evening, the USS Lassen has indeed sailed within 12 nautical miles of China's islands in the Spratlys."
... and will continue to do so for as long as we feel like it.
the headline should have read, "China shakes their tiny fists in impotent rage as US exercises its globally recognized right to sail _international waters_"
fuck you China, fuck you and your made-up bullshit... you have no claim, you have no right, and _you can't stop us_
edit: oh my, they've _summoned the US ambassador_ hahahahahaha... oh however will we deal with that... fucking LOSERS
America Fuck Yeh!
U.S.A U.S.A U.S.A.
that's "Murica Fuck Yeah", Pliskin... get it right or I'll take your other eye...
it's funny watching Vietnam, Phillipines, et al whine and complain about the US but when China goes full retard who do they come running to for help to back their claims? two guesses and the first ain't Russia lol...
And what would you prefer? Nuclear war? Which U.S. city are you willing to sacrifice for Murikistanian belligerence? You chickenhawk armchair quarterbacks are insane. Murikistan is picking a fight with russia and china; and you cheer it on as if were not in any danger? Youre a moron.
Calling him a moron is far too polite, he's a redneck, mongoloid, retarded, cock-smoking little bitch...
DC, NYC, LA, Chicago, San Francisco. I'll be glad to trade 5 liberal shitholes.
Interesting part. A limited nuclear exchange would flip this country into the red column for the next 60 years.
AmeriKa can't pay it's bill so it seems as if she is the one going full retard
Nice deadbeat there
Indeed. People like turtle dick fail to realize who has been financing our military misadventures. China. Who builds all our walmart shit? China. Who makes their clorhes? China. The only thing manufactured in Murikistan anymore is mic equipment and frozen tv dinners.
Trump .. that's all i have to say.
Jeb has cool things to do.......so he's taking his ball and going home.
Adios Jeb......that mean goodbye in Spanish.
Jeb has cool things to do.......so he's taking his ball and going home.
Dasvidaniya Jeb......that mean goodbye in Russian.
What's goodbye in Hebrew?
"You trusted me."
The Mulsim loving clown has no idea what the hell he is doing. But, his behavior threathens the lives of every American and their families.
"we'll leave you alone if you buy and hold more of our bonds....deal?" -BHO
China doesn't have to actually fire a volley over the Lassen's bow to show they're not bluffing. All they have to do is crash the US bond market. And man, do they have the ammo to do that. Of course if China were to dump their trillions of dollars worth of US bonds all at once they would also be shooting themselves in the foot as the value of those bonds would crash before they could even unload the entire hopper. So they can damned well take their time about it, all the while exerting immense pressure on the US bond market.
As has been recently reported, China's rate of 'bond dumpage' has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past 3 or 4 months. Don't be surprised to see that rate double now. Even at an accelerated rate of selling, they can dump US treasuries garbage in a steady stream for a few years before they run out.
To say that US foreign policy is childish and very poorly thought out would be the understatement of the century. How f'king dumb can leadership get?
if it were so easy it would have been done by now...
if it were so easy it would have been DONE by now ...
evidently it's not so easy, so fuck all you armchair quarterbacks and your stupid assumptions...
Obviously you didn't read my comment. Please read it again, and this time pay attention. You'll be less likely post such a stupid reply again.
I read it just fine, it's the same stupid bullshit about "pressing the easy button to kill the US" that gets paraded out here CONSTANTLY... you're not saying anything new and are basically a waste of electrons if not space and oxygen... the next time you need to call someone stupid try looking in a mirror...
patting yourself on the back for regurgitated bullshit that's been proven wrong time and time again, and you think you're "smart" on top of that... enjoy your life of delusion...
Haha. Have a great day.
We AmeriKans can't even beat the Taliban and couldn't pacify Iraq.
What chance do we have against China, backed up by Russia?
they accumulated those UST's because of their massive trade surplus
they are now "dumping" them because of the massive capital outflow in the country and the soft soon to be hard landing
so they can dump them out of spite, but there's a reason they have owned UST. they NEED (ed) UST