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Posted: 1/26/2021 9:44:03 PM EDT
China has announced plans to hold military exercises in the South China Sea this week, a mere days after the Pentagon confirmed a US aircraft carrier group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt had entered the disputed waters in a "freedom of the seas" operation and after daily Chinese incursions of Taiwan's airspace had been reported the prior week.
Beijing, indignant at the US muscle-flexing in its own backyard, will hold the drills in the Gulf of Tonkin also during a crucial week top Communist Party leaders of Vietnam are meeting for the once in five years National Congress to select a new leader for the country. Reuters reports of the new Chinese military drills, "A notice issued by the country’s Maritime Safety Administration prohibited entry into a portion of waters in the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of the Leizhou peninsula in southwestern China from Jan. 27 to Jan. 30, but it did not offer details on when the drills would take place or at what scale." The new drill notification came after on Monday Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian slammed the nearby US military movements: "It does no good to regional peace and stability for the United States to frequently send military vessels and aircraft to the South China Sea to show off muscles," Zhao said. He further said, "We urge the US side to earnestly abide by the one-China principle and the three China-US joint communiques, prudently and properly handle Taiwan-related issues, and refrain from sending any wrong signals to the 'Taiwan independence' forces so as to avoid damaging China-US relations and peace and fefrain from sending any wrong signals to the "Taiwan independence" forces so as to avoid damaging China-US relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait." Meanwhile, over the past week Taiwan has on multiple occasions scrambled jets to warn off Chinese aerial provocations, including over the weekend multiple Chinese bombers being sent in a flyover. As we noted earlier, with fighter jets from both countries now on the verge of engaging above Taiwan's ADIZ, we are one false flag "accidental" missile discharge from all out war. China for its part sees such actions as aimed at defending the country’s sovereignty and designed to act as a warning against “collusion” between the United States and Taiwan. The presence of the USS Roosevelt carrier in the area most certainly complicates things further, inching the two sides closer to direct military conflict. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-hold-military-drills-gulf-tonkin-warning-nearby-us-carrier-group Pushing Xidens buttons to see what he is made of, or proving that they own him? |
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Wow. What is old is new again.
Just imagine if somehow a Chinese ship is attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin?? |
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One day, and that day may very well come, you will have Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and US naval assets get tired of China and kick their ass, me thinks.
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Gotta keep up appearances. Oceana and Eastasia have always been at war.
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It amazes me the amount of people on this site that think war with China is a good idea. That’s a lose lose scenario for everyone.
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Hmmm, Gulf of Tonkin.....where have I heard that before...wasn't there a yatch club there at one point awhile back?
ETA: Beat !! |
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Quoted: It amazes me the amount of people on this site that think war with China is a good idea. That’s a lose lose scenario for everyone. View Quote They've been pushing hard for awhile, and seem to be getting stronger, militarily, and I would not be surprised if a war kicks off sometime in the future. Cut off China's fuel supplies and they'll run out of gas. |
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If I was NK I'd be torpedoing both sides and watch the fireworks.
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Stop posturing for God's sake and either agree to terms and live by them or throw nukes.
I'm tired of this shit. |
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War? What war? China's lapdogs Biden/Hunter and Kuntmala will comply.....for a small compensation, of course...
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A war with any country while bidet in office may not be a good idea. He would probably forget who we were fighting anyway.
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Quoted: And that's when Putin invades the Baltic states... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: One day, and that day may very well come, you will have Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and US naval assets get tired of China and kick their ass, me thinks. And that's when Putin invades the Baltic states... Why would he do something like that? |
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Quoted: I am inclined to agree with this. Not sure any of this is worth losing a ship or people over on either side. Maybe I am getting old and soft View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It amazes me the amount of people on this site that think war with China is a good idea. That’s a lose lose scenario for everyone. I am inclined to agree with this. Not sure any of this is worth losing a ship or people over on either side. Maybe I am getting old and soft Rest easy guys, the people in charge of our republic feel the same way and have arranged for a peaceful transfer of power to the Chinese. Also probably more than half of the of military brass are going along with it. |
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Quoted: One day, and that day may very well come, you will have Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and US naval assets get tired of China and kick their ass, me thinks. View Quote I sure hope it goes that way instead of Xiden giving Taiwan to China as payback for the bribes. |
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Bet you a dollar China has a plan too. And it doesn’t involve them getting their asses kicked. It involves shutting power off to every allied weapon system in the pacific and activating a killer virus to disable every electronic system they couldn’t shut power off to. Then they fight. Destabilize the dollar, shut off our national power grid, destroy our satellites. Really just who the hell thinks the Chinese are going to fight us on our terms? They’re shaping the battle-space as we speak.
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I don't want a war with China, it will be horrible and they know it.
But, it is inevitable and it is better to get it over with sooner rather than later. In 10 years their navy will be so much stronger, and their economic might will be greater. This is going to suck with Biden, and being in Japan it is going to really really suck, but it has to happen. I've worked in China, and have good Chinese friends and they are all good people, take care of their family and work very hard. But the CCP is inherently evil and corrupt to the core, they don't care if 500,000,000 of their citizens die, that's the problem. The CCP has to be removed from this planet if we want any type of freedom. Here is a translated version of the goals of the CCP, it is very ideological and the CCP is an ideological party, they stick to their "ideas" very strongly. This is what they believe and what they are actively working towards, and they have a 200-year plan... https://www.csis.org/analysis/strengthening-ccps-ideological-work Only American stands in the way of that plan, I hope you all know that. |
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Quoted: Uh no,it's a lose for China and a win for the rest of the world. Shit hole needs to be wiped just like the middle east View Quote I must disagree. The Chinese can sit back and launch thousand of DF-21’s which we can not stop all of them. Missiles are cheaper than aircraft or large ships- We do not have near enough defensive missiles of all kinds to defend ourselves with, especially given we may fire 2-4 at each, some will get through and that shit is lost. We do not have near enough ships for them to sink and prevail. This is not WW2 where we get to pound a beachhead unhindered. Our aircraft will be shot to pieces by AA/guns/Missiles within 50 miles of the Chinese coast. We really do not want to hassle with China. And thanks to the idiots in DC for 20 years, China has more land based ballistic missiles than we do. SE Asia can go hump a camel. |
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http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2002378,00.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-did-us-navy-surface-3-submarines-same-time-asia-114731 “In July 2010, three SSGNs surfaced nearly simultaneously in Western Pacific and Indian Ocean waters, allegedly to signal U.S. displeasure over Chinese missile tests in the East China Sea.” View Quote Submarines seemed to fit the bill, as if Washington were saying to Beijing, “Sure, you might surprise us with your missiles. But we remember we have plenty of missiles of our own — and they’re not far from you.” View Quote That's why alarm bells would have sounded in Beijing on June 28 when the Tomahawk-laden 560-ft. U.S.S. Ohio popped up in the Philippines' Subic Bay. More alarms were likely sounded when the U.S.S. Michigan arrived in Pusan, South Korea, on the same day. And the Klaxons would have maxed out as the U.S.S. Florida surfaced, also on the same day, at the joint U.S.-British naval base on Diego Garcia, a flyspeck of an island in the Indian Ocean. In all, the Chinese military awoke to find as many as 462 new Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood. "There's been a decision to bolster our forces in the Pacific," says Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "There is no doubt that China will stand up and take notice." View Quote |
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View Quote Exactly. Has the fraudster in chief surrendered yet? |
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I’ve started wondering how much of the Chinese Navy is dependent upon US metallurgical coal, if China is at all. We sell a good bit of coal to China, just what kind?
ETA: Basically, is their Navy made of shit steel or the same caliber of steel US Naval ships are built with? |
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So how long before Chine holds military drills in the Gulf of Mexico?
Now that would make some people pucker. |
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