Philippines File Complaint Against China – But It’s Not What You Think
The complaint, ironically, is actually evidence of cooperation between the Philippines and China.
The complaint, ironically, is actually evidence of cooperation between the Philippines and China.
An editorial in The Global Times – an English language website owned and run by The People’s Daily, which is the official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party – is being widely reported around the world as a threat to go to war with the US over the South China Sea. Examples of the way in which this editorial is being reported can be found in The Guardian.
This is a complete misunderstanding of what the editorial said.
21st Century Wire says…
During yesterday’s cabinet confirmation hearing in Washington DC, hawkish comments made by President-Elect Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson were very pleasing to pro-war Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. Not so for Chinese war hawks…
"There is no room for bargaining.”
The pacific theater is heating up.
An unmanned vehicle was seized unlawfully by China.
The latest blow the America's credibility is Asia.