U.S. ready to confront Beijing on South China Sea: admiral

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Wed Dec 14, 2016 | 3:38pm EST

The United States is ready to confront China should it continue its overreaching maritime claims in the South China Sea, the head of the U.S. Pacific fleet said on Wednesday, comments that threaten to escalate tensions between the two global rivals.

China claims most of the resource-rich South China Sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.

The United States has called on China to respect the findings of the arbitration court in The Hague earlier this year which invalidated its vast territorial claims in the strategic waterway.

But Beijing continues to act in an "aggressive" manner, to which the United States stands ready to respond, Admiral Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, said in a speech in Sydney.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-usa-idUSKBN1430CJ

[angrychair]

1. Not willing to blow up the Earth

To protect trade routes. Fuck them!

[christx30]

3. China has a gun to the head

of the whole world. They can do whatever they want, and everyone is too afraid of them to say "boo".

[wordpix]

5. the S. China Sea needs a treaty. The laws of the sea and regs are impossible to police or

even for people trying to follow them to do so. There are 3 different zones and one nation's zone can overlap another's and these zones extend out 200 miles from land. It's like the Wild West out there with all the nations on islands, whether natural or manmade, claiming sea resources from fish to oil and other minerals. Something bad will happen there unless there's a treaty to have more sensible laws and regs.

[wordpix]

6. don't worry, Drumpf is confronting them & they'll choke (sarcasm)

[pennylane100]

7. It is much more than the trade routes.

If China can bully its way into screwing over the other countries who have legitimate claims to use these trade routes, that will only embolden them to go after other parts of the world that they have not claim too. They have to learn that might does not make right. They will take a mile if they are given an inch.

[wordpix]

2. Chinese creating islands from reefs for military installations isn't good, either

Just think of the reef and ocean floor destruction. The only good thing is some typhoon or earthquake will surely wash them away at some point.

[Feeling the Bern]

4. I smell a war over rocks. I know the Chinese government being here

They have backed themselves into a corner and will sacrifice everything to maintain face.

I know Assfaced Shitgibbon. He will say something. China will ignore it. . .he will attack.

[resistance2016]

8. Then the Admiral should take his pampered ass to Beijing and confront them then!

Sorry-ass, cowardly LOSER!
Willing to go to war over goddamn DIRT!