"Philippine Troops to China?" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Feb 2018 12:30 p.m. PST |
"Imagine this. China builds a military base on the Australian continental shelf off, say, Cairns. Then, according to the Australian prime minister, China threatens a military response should Australia attempt to exercise its maritime rights in accordance with a unanimous international tribunal decision that ruled this Chinese base unlawful. Next, that same prime minister suggests that Australia is "veering towards China", and that Australian troops should be trained in China to "balance" the Australian Defence Force's over-reliance on training in the US. The spokesperson for the prime minister also suggests that Australia should not protest against Chinese actions, but hopes China will hand over the base to Australia eventually. Impossible? Surreal?…" Main page link
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Cacique Caribe | 01 Mar 2018 3:18 a.m. PST |
"On 7 February, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque opined that in the future, the Philippines would thank China for constructing military bases in the Philippine-exclusive economic zone. Last year, on 19 May, Duterte stated that China's Xi Jinping had told him China would go to war if the Philippines tried to drill for oil in the West Philippine Sea." Lol. Maybe China today is simply like Germany was, ambitious and misunderstood. And the Philippines is just doing what Germany's neighbors thought was the logical thing to do: YouTube link Maybe people just misunderstand Communist China's intentions towards the Philippines and the rest of the world. Maybe we just need to see the good side of everything China does, and perhaps the other nations in that part of the world need to just thank China for encroaching on their exclusive economic zones (EEZ). We apparently should no longer view China as an evil rival with dangerous expansionist ideas. We are told that the Cold War is over and that we all need to hold hands and sing Kumbaya with Communist China. Anything else would be regressive thinking. Their government is just different, is all. :) Dan TMP link
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Tango01 | 01 Mar 2018 11:14 a.m. PST |
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