"China Asserts Right to Militarize Islands" Topic

China on Tuesday said it has the right to develop South China Sea islands as it sees fit in the wake of U.S. accusations that it has fully militarized at least three of several islands it built in the disputed waterway in violation of a previous commitment…

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we all know it doesn't care about the court ruling. Just keep sailing and flying through there; I think the russian example is enough to make them think twice about going too hard yet….

It's not a coincidence that it's made that statement now, either.

They promised NOT to do that.

We should assert the right to "de-militarize" them by any and ALL means necessary.

I would not go to war with them right now Thresher. But I would like to see more fortified bases of the western powers, along with patrolling naval units, all along their oil tanker routes across the Indian Ocean.

We should have a aircraft carrier anchor on a reef in the South China Sea about 5nm away from one of their "islands."

When they, as they surely will, go berserk, we tell them.

You poured concrete on a reef and call it an island.

We've parked a carrier on a reef and we're calling ourselves a unicorn. And since we all know unicorns aren't real, then we aren't really here so you can't complain.

That should fry their brains for a day or two. When they come back we say "we aren't real so we can't hear you." Then we stick our fingers in our ears and go.

"LAA, LAA, LAA, LAA."

If 5000 red blooded 'Merican sailors can't out 3rd grade a bunch of polemical 3rd graders, we really need to reassess our educational system.

Oh well -- Islands come and islands go ????

Russ Dunaway