These Maps Show The Wildly Overlapping Territory Claims That Could Lead To Conflict In The South China Sea
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This issue will test Pax Americana.
China, if it fears the will and superiority of the U.S. military, primarily air and naval forces, will back down and negotiate shared access to South China Sea oil and gas.
If not, China will simply seize whatever it wants from the South China Sea to Japan and South Korean off shore resources.
U.S. military policy since WW2 was to be able to fight wars on two fronts, the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Obama administration is reducing that to only one front, the Pacific.
Europe and Russia will be left to oversee political conflict and development in the Middle-East and Africa.
The 21st Century will be “most interesting”. Economic instability will follow from political instability.
Based on the maps China has no right to the vast majority of the area they are claiming. Their claim is absurd…particularly the oil field off the coasts of Malaysia, Phillipines and Vietnam.
Why don’t they just claim all of the Pacific Ocean. I’m sure they’ve already thought of that.
On another note have you noticed the increase of ‘history’ programs that seem to credit the Chinese with basically every modern invention. Some of the hypothesis used for some of the claims is as absurd to say the least. It seems like a deliberate attempt to show them in a ‘better light’ and of course ignoring the fact they – like the old Soviet Union – have created little to help mankind over the last few centuries and particularly since the 18th century. It seems they – like the Islamic world as well – can only steal ideas from the free world and by using slave labour become stronger economically.
China has been building a massive Blue Water Navy for a reason.
South East Asia is in continual conflict with its neighbors as is, Islam playing no small part in it, along with cultural tribal racisms.
What’s left of the small non-Liberal part of Australia should be the worry for westerners; China has been buying up natural resources along with farms and produce as fast as it can.
Liberalism has destroyed any meaningful western intervention, everyone will simply stamp their feet while continuing to economically empower China right up until the day they decide to just take what’s left.
“seem to credit the Chinese with basically every modern invention”
I gather the fork was not among them…
One more reason to develop the Northern Gateway pipeline. A relatively secure and predictable supply of oil to China and other nations of the Pacific could, in a worst case scenario, at least buy time for some, hopefully, meaningful negotiations to occur to resolve these types of disputes, avoiding the same casus belli that rightly or wrongly prompted Imperial Japan to expand its war of aggression across the Pacific.
It could also give Canada some real clout in dampening the flames of aggression in that area if there was a real prospect that Canada could turn off the tap on any power which became too overtly beligerent.
Greenies of course would be utterly incapable of appreciating this since that would require an appreciation for a larger humanity than that seen at the end of their collective nose.
The maps don’t show Fort Mac as China’s territory… just yet.
Now if the Prime Minister could explain this pipeline, as an avenue to prevent a war, while assisting developing countries, and have responsible leaders of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition understand it…now that would be progress!
Unfortunately such a concept is way over the head of the Media Party.
And by the way prairie farmers and grain companies would like to have their railway access back, so they can move their crops to market, feed the hungry and pay their bills (and help the depressed eastern economies with transfer payments :).
B.C. natives could put on a clinic on wildly overlapping claims…
This issue will test Pax Americana.
China, if it fears the will and superiority of the U.S. military, primarily air and naval forces, will back down and negotiate shared access to South China Sea oil and gas.
If not, China will simply seize whatever it wants from the South China Sea to Japan and South Korean off shore resources.
U.S. military policy since WW2 was to be able to fight wars on two fronts, the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Obama administration is reducing that to only one front, the Pacific.
Europe and Russia will be left to oversee political conflict and development in the Middle-East and Africa.
The 21st Century will be “most interesting”. Economic instability will follow from political instability.
Based on the maps China has no right to the vast majority of the area they are claiming. Their claim is absurd…particularly the oil field off the coasts of Malaysia, Phillipines and Vietnam.
Why don’t they just claim all of the Pacific Ocean. I’m sure they’ve already thought of that.
On another note have you noticed the increase of ‘history’ programs that seem to credit the Chinese with basically every modern invention. Some of the hypothesis used for some of the claims is as absurd to say the least. It seems like a deliberate attempt to show them in a ‘better light’ and of course ignoring the fact they – like the old Soviet Union – have created little to help mankind over the last few centuries and particularly since the 18th century. It seems they – like the Islamic world as well – can only steal ideas from the free world and by using slave labour become stronger economically.
China has been building a massive Blue Water Navy for a reason.
South East Asia is in continual conflict with its neighbors as is, Islam playing no small part in it, along with cultural tribal racisms.
What’s left of the small non-Liberal part of Australia should be the worry for westerners; China has been buying up natural resources along with farms and produce as fast as it can.
Liberalism has destroyed any meaningful western intervention, everyone will simply stamp their feet while continuing to economically empower China right up until the day they decide to just take what’s left.
“seem to credit the Chinese with basically every modern invention”
I gather the fork was not among them…
One more reason to develop the Northern Gateway pipeline. A relatively secure and predictable supply of oil to China and other nations of the Pacific could, in a worst case scenario, at least buy time for some, hopefully, meaningful negotiations to occur to resolve these types of disputes, avoiding the same casus belli that rightly or wrongly prompted Imperial Japan to expand its war of aggression across the Pacific.
It could also give Canada some real clout in dampening the flames of aggression in that area if there was a real prospect that Canada could turn off the tap on any power which became too overtly beligerent.
Greenies of course would be utterly incapable of appreciating this since that would require an appreciation for a larger humanity than that seen at the end of their collective nose.
The maps don’t show Fort Mac as China’s territory… just yet.
Now if the Prime Minister could explain this pipeline, as an avenue to prevent a war, while assisting developing countries, and have responsible leaders of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition understand it…now that would be progress!
Unfortunately such a concept is way over the head of the Media Party.
And by the way prairie farmers and grain companies would like to have their railway access back, so they can move their crops to market, feed the hungry and pay their bills (and help the depressed eastern economies with transfer payments :).
B.C. natives could put on a clinic on wildly overlapping claims…