Editor in Chief Bill | 25 May 2017 9:23 p.m. PST |
…The Chinese seizure on 15 December 2016 of unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) operated by the U.S. Naval Service (USNS) vessel Bowditch (T-AGS-62) in international waters was one of the most brazen acts yet in the ongoing gray-zone conflict. To seize the sovereign property of another nation in international waters is a clear violation of international law. The return of the UUV several days later did little to end a continuing and disturbing trend… link |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 25 May 2017 11:25 p.m. PST |
How about tax China for stealing our plans of the F-35? |
Cacique Caribe | 26 May 2017 12:01 a.m. PST |
Or for helping Iran and China with their missile guidance and nuclear technology. Dan |
Cacique Caribe | 26 May 2017 3:03 a.m. PST |
That should have read "Iran and North Korea". Dan |
cosmicbank | 27 May 2017 5:22 a.m. PST |
This is not your Grand Dad's China. You don't just send a couple of gunboats over with a few second sons, And Make the Chinese pay the tax. |
StarCruiser | 27 May 2017 8:03 a.m. PST |
Drop their "most favored nation" trade status and crank some tariffs on Chinese imports. That's a form of taxation they can't do anything about. Their economy is already a bit shaky as is, further reduction in international trade could kill it dead, dead, dead… |
cosmicbank | 27 May 2017 4:18 p.m. PST |
Yeah and countries never use their army when the economy is i trouble. The western nations need to figure out which battles they want to fight and which ones they want to move to the back burner. To put it in terms we all understand you can't build a 6mm American Civil War army, the same army in 15mm and 28mm and also stay in budget and get it painted. Before the big convention |
Khusrau | 27 May 2017 5:33 p.m. PST |
I would have to point out that the US doesn't mind ignoring international law when it suits them. For example by being an active warfighter in Syria. |
Cacique Caribe | 27 May 2017 5:59 p.m. PST |
Khusrau, Yeah we just recently extended our territorial waters by hundreds of miles and built up and fortified dozens of artificial islands in international fishing waters with absolute impunity … oh wait, that wasn't the US. That was China. StarCruiser is right. Drop their favored status and crank up the tariffs. Dan |
StarCruiser | 27 May 2017 7:36 p.m. PST |
There will be much "weeping, wailing and nashing of teeth" in the US corporate community (addicted as they are to cheap Chinese production) but, in truth, we can produce anything China can – and at a comparable or lower cost since there are far more efficient forms of production available now. China's factories are generally powered by slave labor and poor wages for those who aren't slaves. There are some exceptions, of course but, we might force them to fully modernize their whole economy – or flat out collapse. |