Earlier this week, US officials indicated that they are set to go through with a plan to sail warships around China’s man-made islands in the Spratlys.
“It’s just a matter of time when it happens,” one government source told WSJ.
Over the course of the last six months, we’ve seen China’s land reclamation efforts go from oddity, to spectacle, to alleged “provocation”, to excuse for war as Washington feels compelled to come to the aid of its allies in the South Pacific who cried foul after it became apparent that this was no “normal” dredging effort.
In short, China has created some 3,000 acres of new sovereign territory and the US claims Beijing is effectively trying to redraw maritime boundaries on the way to establishing new military outposts. For its part, China denies the allegations and has responded with a peculiar mix of veiled threats (tweaking the wording of its official maritime strategy), not-so-veiled threats (telling a US spy plane with a CNN crew on board to “go now”), and humorous propaganda (a series of pictures from Fiery Cross depicting women, puppies, and gardens).
Despite efforts to de-escalate the matter when Xi visited the US this month, Beijing looks set to draw a line in the sand (no pun intended) when it comes to allowing the US to sail warships near the islands.
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Another Obama dilemma: go through with his childish rhetoric or back down.
Got war?
David DeGerolamo
the only thing the red commie bastards have a claim to is nothing, as for our military they have been neutered by the islamic marxist sodomite commie who works for Putin and the red chink commie. our military is just about dismantled now and our generals are now apart of the destruction of there own nation. these are not men there useless eaters sucking off the system and waiting for there pensions. Obama should have been physically removed from office along with the entire white house.It should have been locked down by our marines as well as a lock down off all democrat senators and congressman, every one who is a long standing marixst in the government should have been removed, but nothing was done, they let it go. So the fight is up to us to dismantle what the pig slob sodomite Whore put in motion.