China's SCS Strategy Thread

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icbeodragon

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Jura said:
Beijing lands nuclear bombers in the South China Sea in clear sign that it has pushed out the US without firing a shot
I guess

  • Beijing upped the ante in the South China Sea on Friday by releasing footage of its H-6K nuclear-capable bombers landing on artificially made islands in disputed waters — and it sends a clear message of who dominates the region.
  • China has taken an increasingly aggressive stance to back up its unilateral, illegal claims to the waters of the South China Sea, where trillions in international trade pass through every year.
  • Flying bombers in and out proves China runs the show, and nobody will fight them over it because there's too much at stake.
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What a clickbait title... doesn't even make sense, its a non sequitur.
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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now noticed the tweet ("Xisha" means
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just saying for amateurs like me who wouldn't know without Internet)
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A joint group of ships from the military, coast guard, and local law enforcement patrolled waters of China's Xisha Islands, driving away 10 foreign fishing boats

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Equation

Equation

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PanAsian said:
I think it's more accurate to see these behaviors as some countries' habits and opinions rather than rules.
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But when most of the world became used to one country's pattern of behavior it became a norm therefore and an unwritten rule and expectation that everybody will follow it.
 
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PanAsian

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Equation said:
But when most of the world became used to one country's pattern of behavior it became a norm therefore and an unwritten rule and expectation that everybody will follow it.
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It's really groups of countries on various sides of the issue, certainly each side would describe their own behavior as "norm" or "rule" but there's no such consensus among "everybody".
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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now I read
China refutes claims on "destabilizing" the South China Sea
2018-05-21 21:22 GMT+8
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China on Monday hit back at allegations that it was "aggravating tensions and destabilizing" the South China Sea after it had conducted military training in the region and called Washington the real "threat" to the area with its military footprint.

On Friday, China landed several combat aircraft for the first time – including the long-range, nuclear strike-capable H-6K – at an island airfield in the sea. The United States immediately responded, condemning China has "continued militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea".

"The South China Sea islands are Chinese territories," foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told a regular briefing. "The movement was part of the normal training for the Chinese military. Overinterpretation regarding the issue is unnecessary."

Lu added that the real danger is posed by "unrelated party", hinting at the US, as the country – lies thousands of miles away from the South China Sea – "still sent its own warships and planes".

The Philippines on Monday said it has taken "appropriate diplomatic action," stressing that it is concerning the impact of the training on "maintaining peace and stability in the region," said the presidential spokesman Harry Roque during a regular media briefing.

China has built a string of artificial islands in contested areas of the South China Sea since 2013 and installed an array of airbases, radar systems and naval facilities that will allow it to project power over hundreds of kilometers in the ocean where the US Navy’s dominance previously faced few serious challenges.
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