China is flexing its expansionist muscles ... making outrageous claims to large swaths of the South China Sea ... and building artificial islands to reinforce its sea lanes, oil exploration and fishing assertions in this region. All of its Asian neighbors (the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) are pushing back and the Philippines just won a important victory in the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague wherein China's claims have been denied ... see: AP Story. Unfortunately this decision in the Netherlands carries no force of real law ... just moral suasion ... and China is not swayed by suasion. This blatant Chinese hegemony presents one of the most serious threats to world peace in quite a few years.
In a related matter, President Obummer, after he returns from his current Black Lives Matter trip, is planning a few rounds of golf and a White House rap concert.
Afterward: See: Chuck Hagel Weighs In On CNBC and Enews: China Rattles Sword.
Obama should be doing what instead after a NATO meeting in Poland, a meeting in Spain, and a fullday in Dallas? Declare war on China?
ReplyDeleteHe is also going to Minneapolis and Baton Rouge to show support for BLM. What should he do? Maybe go to his intelligence briefings every once in a while? Have we no levers to pull with China?
ReplyDeleteHere's a lever: Prohibit WalMart from importing anything from China.
DeleteI am sure that Air Force One has secure telespresence technology. So too at his vacation location.
DeleteSince you seem to be more informed than Pres Obama on foreign affairs, what's your solution? Send our grandchildren off to defeat China?
ReplyDeleteStop giving the Chicoms rocket technology? See: "http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-technology-transfer-to-china.html"
DeleteI did not see USA in that map above. How is this our problem? Let the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan ASK for our opinion or help.
ReplyDeleteAmerica firster!
DeleteThis is a game of RISK. China is already about to claim the continent of Africa with all its natural resources. They are also cozying up to the Arabs (to whom we sell a LOT of military technology) and that's where they can do landline piping of oil to China.
ReplyDeleteThe Spratly Islands are a skirmish. Slightly more contentious that North Korea but not a fuse for WWIII IMHO.
The Keystone XL of the Far East ...
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