Asian Neighbors Wary of Chinese Regime as Maritime Clashes Worsen

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Over the past year, the Chinese regime has been increasingly assertive of its claims in the South China Sea. Its causing conflicts because several other nations also say they have a stake in the area, which appears to be rich in oil and gas reserves.

The Chinese regime's aggression over maritime territorial claims has aggravated many Asian countries in the region—as recent disputes over the South China Sea intensify.

South China Sea is along major international shipping routes—and is believed to hold large oil and gas reserves.

Six countries claim portions of that sea: China, Taiwan, Vietnam, The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei. China stakes the biggest claim.

In recent weeks, protests against the Chinese regime's actions at sea have escalated.

Vietnamese authorities complained that Chinese ships intentionally stopped Vietnamese vessels from carrying out oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea.

Chinese authorities have denied these accusations and warned Vietnam not to provoke them.

The Filipino government has complained of Chinese authorities putting up poles, a buoy, and construction materials near the Amy Douglas Bank, 125 nautical miles from Palawan Island in western Philippines.

China also has ongoing territorial conflicts with Japan in the East China Sea. The two countries have barely recovered from clashes over a Chinese fishing boat running into a Japanese patrol vessel last year. It was near what the Chinese call the Diaoyu Islands. China, Japan, and Taiwan all claim sovereignty over these islands—which hold large oil and gas reserves.

Although military confrontations are unlikely, rising tensions over the sea claims could upset regional diplomacy.

Chinese authorities say China's military poses no threat. But their willingness to use force to assert sea claims is making other Asian countries wary.

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[sfso911]

China’s massacre in Spratly Islands a naval victory? No resistance from the Vietnamese flag defenders because Hanoi told them not to escalate the situation, not knowing that the Chinese people have no humanity: rolling tanks over students in Tiennamen Square, shooting at people who were unable to attack them, killing prisoners for organs. Coward Chinese marines who fired their 37mm machine guns at the Vietnamese flag defenders who were not able to attack them should face war-crime tribunals.

[christian471316]

japan vietnam philippines should help each other...... n usa should send their aircraft carrier in south phil sea( china sea )for protection....

[PET3RRULEZ]

@sfsd911 obviously 100 is not gonna be worth one penny if china dumps us bonds. But dumping 1.4 trillion dollar is alot and china can get russia and other country to do the same therefore they can fuck up united states economy. i dont want that nor is it good for the world. im just saying, its possible

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ "do you want your $100 to be worth a penny?" You must either be stupid or have not taken economics in college. China dumping $1.4trillion won't make $100 become penny, idiot. $1.4 trillion is very small = two times the Pentagon's annual budget. If China was to dump it, the US can just raise taxes on Chinese goods to make up the difference. China knows this scenario well, that's why China cried like a baby when US Senate passed the China Currency Manipulation Bill.

[PET3RRULEZ]

@sfsd911 Selling us 1.4 trillion us bonds can do more damage than what you think. that is the same as hyper inflation in the us currency makeing the dollar worth very little. to compensate that, the us would have to print more money to cover that inflation which makes the dolllar worth less. so tell me, do you want your $100 to be worth a penny?

[PET3RRULEZ]

@sfsd911 Nope, how are you going to bring china back into the stone age. if you can we can too, sending your american white ass back 200 in tecnology. the only weapon possible for bringing any country back to stone age is with an emp, which can be made by a nuclear blast above the atmosphere. US can kill china, china can't kill america. We can take taiwan back, we just want to start another world war. War is expensive and deadly. World war III will be 10X as worst as world war II

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ The US is capable of bringing China back to stone age anytime. China can't even retake Taiwan, do you really think China can stand up to the US military might? Stop spreading propaganda, stupid chinks and the left wing US media. The US does not owe China. China bought US junk bonds which are worth about $1.4 trillion which is 2 times the Pentagon's annual budget. The US can erase this debt by raising 100% tariffs on China's exports, make laws to restrict outsourcing jobs.

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ Drop all the hype and propaganda. The US government is poor but the American people are rich. Chinese government is rich, but their people are mostly poor. US poverty line is $28,000/yr, China poverty line is $300 per year. That said a lot. Stop spreading the communist propaganda. If the Chinese are rich, they would not be working in sweat shops for the US corporations. Do you see any Americans working for the Chinese in sweat shops, so stop talking shit and admit the facts.

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ Fuck China. China = Copycat. A country like China that allows and encourages stealing and coping copyright/patented products, not inventing, will never be a superpower. NO RESPECT for crooked chinks.

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ Romney promised that one of his initial executive orders on his first day as president would be to "clamp down on the cheaters" by slapping duties on Chinese imports if Beijing doesn't move quickly to float its currency.

"I will label China as it is, a currency manipulator and I will go after them for stealing our intellectual property," he said while unveiling his plan to revive the troubled U.S. economy and create jobs.

Obama is too stupid to deal with cunning China. Vote for Mitt

[sfsd911]

@PET3RRULEZ The US owes China $1.4 trillion. So what? That's a little more than 2 times the Pentagon's 684 billion-dollar annual budget. Tax Chinese exports for one year & we don’t owe them anything. We can just raise tariffs on goods coming from China, making them more expensive to compete with American goods, thus keeping American jobs from outsourcing. China is not a free trade country. You are not allowed to do business freely in China. Boycott Chinese goods will fuck China.

[PET3RRULEZ]

@sfsd911 their currency useless and also united states can't afford another war and it wouldnt risk going to war with a powerful country.