A hundred Chinese boats encroach in Malaysian waters: minister

[jpak]

Source: Reuters

About 100 Chinese fishing boats have been detected encroaching in Malaysia's waters in the disputed South China Sea, Malaysia's state news agency and a coastguard official said on Friday.

The reported encroachment on Thursday is the latest action by Chinese vessels to raise concern in Southeast Asia, where four countries object to China's claim to virtually the whole of the South China Sea.

Malaysia's national security minister Shahidan Kassim said assets from the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency and the navy have been sent to the area near the Luconia Shoals to monitor the situation, the Bernama news agency reported.

Shahidan did not specify what type of Chinese vessels had been spotted but a Maritime Enforcement Agency official said they were fishing boats guarded by two Chinese coastguard vessels.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-malaysia-idUSKCN0WR03H

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this will not end well...

[Gregorian]

1. Imagine 2 billion more people on the planet.

We aren't even in trouble yet, and the fish are going going gone.

[FLPanhandle]

5. The planet can't support the population we already have long term.

When the crash hits, it's going to be ugly.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

15. Climate change and the sixth global mass-extinction event is happening now

it is ugly now

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. I don't think it's the fish that we need to worry about. NT

[Igel]

16. Less about fish.

More about perceptions as to how much dignity and honor are owed, of taking one's proper place in history and compelling "respect" from their lessers.

[Hekate]

2. I wonder what plans Trump and/or Bernie have for China in the Pacific?

Would be good to know.

[jpak]

3. and Hillary's plan is?

[Hekate]

7. She was Secretary of State -- she has one.

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Bernie is coming along, but before this was always oriented (so to speak) almost exclusively on domestic policy. Trump only knows that China is where his branded merchandise is manufactured.

[jpak]

11. Lulz

[FLPanhandle]

4. The Chineses have been raping the ocean for a while

Now they are going after anything that swims in anyone's waters.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

17. Well, the Chinese are "building" islands so they can extend

water rights out from those man-made islands (for military control, fishing rights and mineral rights).

Thanks to the Chinese , the government of the Philippines is starting to look favorably on the U.S. Navy again.

[jpak]

19. The US just transferred several ex-Hamilton class coast guard cutters to the Philippines

Other than those ships, the Philippine "navy" is non-existent...

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

20. Good article here from LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-philippines-obama-20151115-story.html

"A quarter of a century ago, it was the United States that the Philippines was fed up with. Angry at rowdy American troops and nursing a lingering sense of colonization, Manila ordered the U.S. military out of Subic Bay, then its largest overseas naval base.

But now it's China that's in Manila's doghouse, as Beijing increasingly asserts control over South China Sea waters and islets that also are claimed by the Philippines.

Washington is being welcomed back with open arms here at Subic Bay."

See link for full article.

[Odin2005]

6. The US Navy needs to plop a few ships down there.

And if China whines, fuck them, it's not their waters.

[Hekate]

8. Are you aware that China has been constructing naval bases on artificial islands ...

....throughout the South Pacific? They then claim each "island" as sovereign Chinese territory with all the rights of international waters thereunto pertaining.

Makes for interesting reading.

[Odin2005]

9. And that is absolute BS on the Chinese's part.

[Hekate]

13. It's been going on for awhile. But US tv "news" is where most people get to see the world...

...and it focuses on, well, you know. The Pacific isn't important, is it? And China just makes electronic toys and cheap clothes for us, right?

I recommend print media. I still read the Los Angeles Times, which at least borders the Pacific.

You can bet that President Obama, born and raised in the Pacific, is aware of this stuff. You can also bet that when the crafted the TPP, China was very much on his mind.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

18. Didn't realize you already posted that info.

Yeah, it does make for very interesting reading.

They intend to control the waters, and claim fishing and mineral rights from these man-made islands. I certainly don't want to get in a war with Chinese, but how much longer will the world allow this to go on?

[MBS]

10. they recently have started doing that, I think.

And I'm glad. What China is doing with those BS bases (destroying coral reefs as well as laying bogus claim to territory that is not theirs) is completely outrageous.

[jpak]

14. Obama sent a carrier task force through there this month

n/t