SCMP: Pentagon must think again about war games snub to Chinese navy
As a fast-rising naval power, China should not have been excluded from the exercises by the United States as they are an opportunity for the two nations to cooperate and ease tensions.
China has been excluded by the United States from taking part in the world’s largest multinational navy exercises as a penalty for claimed militarising of the South China Sea.
Beijing sees its deployment of missiles, placement of military equipment and landing of bombers on artificial islands in the region as necessary to protect sovereignty.
With American warships and surveillance vessels regularly traversing the waters, the latest on Sunday involving a destroyer and a cruiser near the Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands, there is every need for the sides to engage to prevent mishaps. Kicking the People’s Liberation Army Navy out of a process meant to build trust and cooperation is short-sighted.
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WNU Editor: I disagree. When China was invited to the RIMPAC exercises in 2014, the hope then was that this would foster better relations between the two countries. The opposite has happened .... and I fail to see how participating in this year's exercises would change anything.
RIMPAC is for allies or friendly nations. Neither applies to China. RIMPAC Ought to be geared towards defeating the PLAN.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely do not invite China back!
ReplyDeleteChina steals hundreds of billions every year from us while rejecting our culture or values. They are not friends. They are not a democracy. They are on the road to a totalitarian state that makes 1984 look like a fairytale in comparison.
They have threatened most of their direct neighbours with war just in the last couple of years or even months. Just ask Vietnam or the Philippines or Japan or India. ..all threatened with war.
The Chinese do not follow international law. They do not follow patent law. They do not follow WHO law. They reject everything while arming north Korea which threatened us with nuclear war. They build their skylines with money stolen from us and laugh about it and are proud of it.
Chinese people are great and I have Chinese friends. .but they are being brainwashed ..and the regime is on a collision course with the west and has been for decades. We need to wake up.
China - just like north Korea - does not respect you when you're nice. They'll smile at you and steal from you and call your niceness "dumb" behind your back.
Time to show China -our- other side. Enough with decades of accepting their demands and outright theft.
Yep couldn't agree more. In my opinion the end of this ignorant spiral is looking very ugly
DeleteThe Chinese navy is a joke.Our boy's would wipe them out in a few days.
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