China ramps up military drills and energy exploitation in contested waterway while US military bogged down in virus crisis at home.
MANILA – With the Covid-19 pandemic mostly contained in China and now wreaking havoc on the United States, security analysts are closely watching Beijing’s military moves in the hotly contested South China Sea.
In recent days, China has conducted military drills and deployed large-scale military assets to the maritime area while at the same time officially celebrating strides made in exploiting disputed energy resources in the fossil fuel-rich sea.
While some see China’s nationalistic messaging as a bid to rally its people during difficult Covid-19 times, others view the increasingly aggressive naval maneuvers as a bid to exploit America’s weakened condition to secure new advantage in the hot spot theater.
Rival Southeast Asian claimants are also in a compromised strategic position as they contend with worsening Covid-19 outbreaks.
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Update: China Chases Indonesia’s Fishing Fleets, Staking Claim to Sea’s Riches (DNYUZ)
WNU Editor: With the entire world now focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, this is the perfect time for China (and other countries) to seize territory and assert their jurisdiction.
6 comments:
This move comes as the US navy is under attack by a virus stemming from China. Take this threat more seriously is my advice. Much more seriously yet. Even Chinese tell me that China does not value a few thousand individual lives here and there. The cold war between the USA and China has accelerated and the Chinese do everything now in acceleration as they feel they have the momentum and believe this could be an event to readjust the global power dogma. This is it. Good luck everyone
Lighten up Francis.
Furthermore, what makes you believe that this administration values a "few thousand individual lives here and there"? The clown car is more than ready to sacrifice thousands of lives for the "market".
Lighten up Troll, who is not the Parrot
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Democrats do not value a few thousand lives here or there.
Democrats believe that you cannot make an omelet without breaking few eggs, so they are perfectly willing to murder a few thousand people here or there.
Democrats make dictators like Alexander Lukashenko, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, or lsais Afewerki look like the three wise men.
Calm down, relax, keep taking the pills 🖖😊
Unknown,
You responded to a 94 year old "former, retired" (his words) English professor or someone imitating him.
If the world lets the PRC emerge from this crisis intact, with its territorial integrity, we have failed big time
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