solarz
Brigadier
I think the American public's attitude toward military adventurism has changed quite a bit since then.
China's SCS Strategy Thread
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I think the American public's attitude toward military adventurism has changed quite a bit since then.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Tell that to the relatives of Iran flight 655.
Just because the US government policy is to always call Chinese or Russian intercept of their spy planes as 'unsafe' does not make that a fact.
Arrogant slogan shouting serves no one. Let's just stick to facts and leave the petty posturing to the politicians.
Iran flight 655 is a senseless tragedy.
That's not going to change US policy in the SCS, nor does it excuse extremely reckless behavior by pilots running intercepts.
There are many intercepts that are conducted in an entirely professional manner, no one says a word about those, only the "STOOPID" are pointed out for their total disregard for the safety of fellow aviators doing their jobs in peacetime.
The Lunar New Year (CNY) of the Rooster will see the Big American Rooster and his smaller ones (cabinet) sending confusing "crowing" signals. Let them crow as long as they are just only blustering/irritating sounds. Asians should stand firm and not allow the outsiders to make use of our countries to antagonise each other (i.e. the old divide & rule colonial strategy). China I noticed is using "Smart Power" (Problem Solving, & Hard Power as & when needed). I hope the Big American Rooster & his little ones will see the realities of geo-politics, economic & security issues, otherwise they may end in cooking pots, put in by their own citizens who now appear to be divided on race and other nagging problems.
Equation
Lieutenant General
US SCS policy is anything but peaceful or peaceful intent. It's the same ole "do as I said and not what I do" mentality that's causing all the aggression NOT China's island building (remember the other guys are doing it too).
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well Trump seems to be okay with Russia's taking over Crimea where people were killed while he thinks China building islands where no one died in the process is a worse violation of international law. And this is coming from the guy who thinks he can steal all of Iraq's oil to pay back for a war the US started on the lie of WMDs in Iraq. Let's not forget how the US navy illegally boarded and seized for three weeks a Chinese ship back in 1993 on the suspicion that it was carrying industrial equipment to make chemical weapons to Iran. All that was found was farming tools. The US refuses to acknowledge they did anything wrong. How many international laws were broken? International law means nothing.
Bill Clinton sent two aircraft carriers through the strait but somehow there's something wrong when China sends a carrier through the strait off its own shore. Now who's the one who thinks they own the waters off of China that are supposedly international waters? Guess what? They've always done that even when China sends navy ships through international waters between two Japanese islands. Hypocrites.
Remember that Rex Tillerson was running Exxon when Obama gave them the okay to explore for oil with Vietnam in disputed waters of the South China Sea after Obama announced his Pivot to Asia. Of course he wants China out because that's a lot of money for Exxon.
Bill Clinton sent two aircraft carriers through the strait but somehow there's something wrong when China sends a carrier through the strait off its own shore. Now who's the one who thinks they own the waters off of China that are supposedly international waters? Guess what? They've always done that even when China sends navy ships through international waters between two Japanese islands. Hypocrites.
Remember that Rex Tillerson was running Exxon when Obama gave them the okay to explore for oil with Vietnam in disputed waters of the South China Sea after Obama announced his Pivot to Asia. Of course he wants China out because that's a lot of money for Exxon.
broadsword
Brigadier
Unlike in 1996, China will not back down or back out. I will just get my Pringles ready.
No Gents, Barack Hussein Obama was president, small p when Russia invaded the Crimea!
Trump will make things better with Putin, and this present craziness in Europe will ramp down!
Keep whining though, all great powers get that way by continuously playing the victim card???
broadsword
Brigadier
Riddle me. How?
Real men eat Lay's Potato Chips t2, remember "nobody can eat just one!"
this does feel a lot like the "Young and the Restless" daytime soap, I used to watch back in my college days after morning classes??? with "Victor Newman" or may "Days of Our Lives" with "Stefano Demera"??? LOL
Oh, an call me if you get those Lay's, I'll bring a carton of Prairie Farms, French Onion Dip!
Well I'll leave you young dudes to figure this out???