Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy recruits chant slogan during a parade to mark the end of a semester at a military base of the North Sea Fleet, in Qingdao, Shandong province December 5, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily
Business Insider: China threatens foreign ships and planes 'daily' in the South China Sea, but no one is yielding any ground
* China threatens foreign ships and planes in the South China Sea on a "daily basis," according to members of the Philippine military.
* Warnings directed at the Philippines are much more menacing than those directed at the US military, leading some experts to question whether or not China is purposefully calibrating its responses to intimidate smaller, weaker claimant states.
* Both the armed forces of the Philippines and the US military continue their operations as planned, disregarding Chinese threats and warnings.
China is threatening foreign ships and planes operating in the South China Sea on a "daily" basis, according to the chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
"It's a daily occurrence," General Carlito Galvez Jr. told the press Monday, the Inquirer reported. "Our pilots just reply, 'We are just doing our routine flight on our jurisdiction and territory.'"
The office of the president of the Philippines praised its country's pilots for disregarding Chinese warnings and threats, which can be particularly aggressive.
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WNU Editor: It looks like this is now business as usual in the South China Sea.
5 comments:
As the Trade war bites on Chinese USA bound exports and domestic economic growth stalls, might there be a rally around the Xi moment?
For the USA, best case is a big hit to Chinese domestic growth, right? So is the USA baiting the Chinese to prematurely lash out?
Yes, that's business as usual, but it will not end "as usual". Deng Xiaoping was wise, Xi is impatient, but he put himself in a corner. The pressure between China and US cannot decrease. Who knows how it will go? Because Xi cannot lose face his action are necessarily one bit over what he received. Usually we call that "escalation", and that's the problem.
That said, the biggest worry may be not in South China Sea but in East China Sea.
Who'd a thunk it, the most effective weapon in the US arsenal...trade tariffs.
I agree with Jac.. this will lead to war. Perhaps the biggest war ever. I hope I am wrong, but I don't see a way out.
We should immediately stop calling it the south china Sea. They use this name as a claim. Look at their 9dash claim. There's nothing as outrageous in the world when it comes to redrawing borders. They claim thousands of miles to be suddenly theirs. Typically 200 miles off coast can be claimed. But if you're Chinese you claim the world
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