British frigate HMS Argyll (front), Japanese destroyer Inazuma (C) and Japanese helicopter carrier Kaga take part in a joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean, September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Asia Times: US allies converge on China in the South China Sea
UK, Australia and Japan are all deploying naval assets to bolster US moves to check China's sprawling claims to the contested maritime area.
China’s rising assertiveness in the South China Sea has provoked a concerted pushback from the United States and its key allies, with Japan and the United Kingdom lending their naval assets to recent stepped up maneuvers that have put the contested maritime region on a new edge.
The US military flew B-52 bombers close to the South China Sea earlier this week, a deployment US Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn claimed was a “regularly scheduled operation designed to enhance our interoperability with our partners and allies in the region.”
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Update: Japanese carrier drills with British warship heading to contested South China Sea (Reuters)
WNU Editor: China is protesting .... China Protests as British and Japanese Warships Heading to Contested South China Sea (Chiang Rai Times).
Funny sticky wicket.
ReplyDeleteBut but China so smart they play 3d chess. ..just real politics and the consequences of pissing off everyone in the region they do not seem to comprehend
ReplyDeleteGood stuff!
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ReplyDeleteIt's about time. I continue to advocate we stop a large warship or two in the area and go fishing for a day or two. Maybe build an island of our own. An Inuit elder, repeating ancient tribal legends, has given new impetus to an American fish processing facility in the American-Vietnamese-Cambodian-Malaysian-Taiwan, etc., Sea.
ReplyDeleteParaphrasing The Wizard of OZ, that's right Xi, this is not obamaland anymore. Well, somewhat paraphrasing. Kinda.
Paraphrasing The Wizard of OZ, that's right Xi, this is not obamaland anymore
ReplyDeleteNICE!