south china sea

Failed coups, tracking trials and the 28 Pages + this day in history w/the McDonald's massacre and our song of the day by Pageantry on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2016.

A car is stolen. It’s a car that has been in the family for generations: picnics, road trips, weddings, funerals, accidents. There are pictures, memories, indelible life events. There is a huge robbery of the entire house, in the confusion, mayhem, and distraction, the car also disappears.

21st Century Wire says…
Can we blame China for seeking to bolster its defences with the US acting so recklessly with military force throughout the world?
In the following episode of CrossTalk, three experts discuss the growing tensions in the South China Sea between both China and the United States. The central contention is that China is creating islands to repurpose as military outposts.

© Sputnik/ Ramil Sitdikov Sputnik | May 4, 2016 The Kremlin could one day regret any US detachment from the South China Sea, American geopolitical analyst Tim Daiss insists. Are Washington’s efforts truly aimed at maintaining the freedom of navigation in the region or is it part of Obama’s plan to write the rules and […]

Critics of American foreign policy love to point out instances where our policy reeks of hypocrisy. No current issue in international affairs affords a better illustration of our inconsistent sanctimoniousness than the dispute over competing claims to insular territories (whether to call them “islands” or “rocks” is of great significance, as we shall see) in the South China Sea.

I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”
Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.

By Peter Lee | China Matters | January 23, 2016 There has been a concerted campaign to depict the South China Sea as an indispensable artery for commercial shipping and, therefore, a justifiable object of US attention and meddling. This flagship of this effort is invoking the “$5 trillion dollars” worth of goods that pass […]

China is warning that the US' naval encroachment could lead to an escalation and even war.The post China Warns US Naval Aggression in South China Sea Could Spark War appeared first on The Anti-Media.

The White House has been pushing for a fight with China ever since Obama announced his so-called ‘pivot to Asia’
Step by step, Washington is inexorably setting up a major provocation against China. Until now, the Obama regime tightened a military encirclement of China, expanding its armed forces agreements with Japan, the Philippines and Australia. In addition, it has promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade agreement which openly excludes China.