2011-04-28 (China Military Article cited from currentintelligence.net and written by Kit Dawnay) -- IN MID-2010, the newspapers were full of revelations that China had expanded its core interests to include the South China Sea. China's statement is said to have first emerged in a March 2010 meeting between US National Security Council Director Jeffrey Bader, Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Chinese officials. Now, though, research indicates that it may never have happened.
This revelation suggests that US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton may have been mistaken - or even deliberately stoking tensions - when she said that Dai Binguo, China's Senior State Counsellor for Foreign Relations, had also described the South China Sea as a core interest in May 2010. It is not clear how or why this misunderstanding arose. Perhaps the phrasing was unclear, perhaps China did make the statement and now wants to back down in the face of US reassertion, or perhaps the US deliberately misinterpreted the comments in order to regain influence in the region.
Tensions in the Sea rose after Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam filed papers with the United Nations Commission on the Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in compliance with a May 2009 deadline to formalise their legal claims and prompting an angry response from China. The militarisation of the sea continues. China has established a significant submarine base in Yilun in Hainan, to add to its naval bases in Guangdong province, and is now showing off its nearly finished aircraft carrier. The US maintains an active presence through its Seventh Fleet, Vietnam and Malaysia are buying submarines, and the Philippines, the weakest power by far, is receiving US support for its navy and coast guard.
The relationship that seems to define the dispute, though, is that between Vietnam and China. It is a paradoxical connection, framed in large part by Vietnam's much smaller size. Indeed, Vietnam's Red River region was the province of Annam (the Peaceful South) in the Chinese empire from 111 BC until 939 AD, when Ngo Quyen founded the country's first independent dynasty. This (and later) history is commonly cited as reason enough for hostility, but the truth is not so simple. Chinese rule had a profound impact on Vietnam. The country instituted a governing bureaucracy, selection for which was by examination. Its scholar elite had a profound reverence for Chinese poetry, and used Chinese characters until the French reforms of the early twentieth century introduced the Roman script. Vietnam's society was and remains deeply Confucian, with traditional hierarchies emphasised by the use of family words in lieu of pronouns. Indeed, it could be said that Vietnam is more Confucian than mainland China, since its revolution was less destructive of its traditions than was Mao's Cultural Revolution.
And yet the Vietnamese are acutely conscious of their differences from China. The impact of Chinese thought on Vietnamese international relations is instructive in this context. For all of its history, Vietnam has operated as a small entity within China's regional sphere of influence, which revolved around Chinese emperors demanding tribute from smaller neighbours. This system actually involved a good degree of autonomy – indeed, some historians argue that the benefit devolved largely on those states sending tribute, since they tended to do better in the trading relationship. Yet realpolitik also played a role, with China continually seeking to balance regional powers, such as Vietnam, Thailand or the Khmer kingdom, against one another. Within this context, Vietnam, conscious of its neighbour's great size, generally sought to maintain good relations with China, even as it worked to subvert the system to its advantage - for instance by establishing its own tributary system and winning territory from the weakening Khmer kingdom in the eighteenth century.
May 29th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The gauge on which one can monitor the degree of true,real,not make-believe,or self-deceptive independance of nations directed or ordered by some far away powers or interest groups to engage in territorial disputes with China in the South China Seas. China's protection and maintaining a safe(not a strategic playground for the US or others with nothing useful to do in this important junction on the sea)area for maritime navigations would benifit all Asian nations in articular and global trades in general. It is always easy for someone with a bad heart and a big mouth to instigate or cause tensions and take a flight back to their home country-sit back,relax,and enjoying the conflicts they set in motion days or weeks earlier. This kind of un-human acts should not be allowed to be succeed without any accountabilities or consequenses brought upon the criminal where ever they may escaped back to. "The correct herbs should be administered in treating the illness"Chinese traditional medicine said.
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June 15th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Yeah, right. You said they were taking Chinese traditional medicine and they were breaking world records left and right in Women's swimming when 11 record holders were caught with dihydrotestosterone. A total of 40 during the 1990's were caught and decimated Chinese swimming. They have disappeared the last 14 years. The last one was caught in the airport with a suit case full of human growth hormones. No wonder their hairs were coming out of their Ying Yang. The lies have turned into drugs. So don't teach us those Chinese traditional medicines.
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June 16th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Oh please. american swimmers have always been on steroids.
"American female swimmer Hardy tests positive for Clenbuterol.
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“An American athlete who withdrew from the 2008 US Olympics swimming trials after a positive drug test has been handed with a one-year ban from competition".
"In the fall of 2003, six-time Olympic gold medalist Amy Van Dyken was identified as a client of Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO"
Hot debate. What do you think?
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June 16th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
"In autumn 1946, China sent a fleet to Xisha and Nansha islands. On
Nov 24, two warships reached the main island of the Xisha Islands and the Chinese built a monument there. On Dec 12, two other Chinese warships reached the main island of the Nansha Islands and named it Taiping Island.
According to international law, a country can claim sovereignty over an archipelago if it occupies the main island. Therefore, China's sovereignty over Nansha and Xisha islands is not contestable."
MY REFUTE:
Taiwan(Republic of China) is the one who has a hold on this claim because it was the government under Chiang-Kai-Zek who occupied and claimed it not communist China(PROC). Taiwan by the book is part of PROC and is known as the "renegade province" but that does not mean you also have the hold of their claim. And since Taiwan is not recognized as a country then this claim could not stand in debate and in the International Court.
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June 17th, 2011 at 7:22 am
True. Americans get caught too. But not wholesale like the Chinese. The Olympic movement in the US are all privately run and funded. Unlike in China it is all government funded and run. For 11 world record holders to be caught all at the same time shows you who ordered them right? It is a wonton and blatant action by the Chinese government to cheat the whole world.
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June 17th, 2011 at 7:35 am
The Mischief Reef is a glaring example of China's blatant cheat. When Philippines protested in the 90's why they were building structures in the reef, the response was they were building sheds for the fishermen for them to take refuge. Baloney! Now they have 3 structures bristled with guns. Oh how you love your fishermen! You stole the island. Cheaters! The same thing you will do on the rest of the islands you are trying to put up markers and bouys, all of which where destroyed last week by Philippine Coast Guard. We know your Modus Operandi! The whole world will slowly know you and expose you.
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June 17th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Absurd. Steroid abuse in the united states is rampant. From bodybuilding, baseball, football, olympics sports. Its relatively overlooked.
As for the reefs. I dont really care. They are disputed. Mostly by Chinese. When the ROC claims those islands, it can only make those claims because the ROC claims those islands belong to China. By claiming that those islands belong more to the ROC instead of the PRC is still a debate privy to the Chinese.
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June 17th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
"As for the reefs. I dont really care. They are disputed. Mostly by Chinese. When the ROC claims those islands, it can only make those claims because the ROC claims those islands belong to China. By claiming that those islands belong more to the ROC instead of the PRC is still a debate privy to the Chinese."
Belongs to China? What China? The Communists or Nationalists?
In the eyes of the world there is two types of government, make it three, in China. Mainland is communist.Taiwan is Nationalist. Hong Kong is an autonomy. Of course the official one that is accepted is the Communist government from Beijing and not the government in Taipei. Again, your claim of the islands at the West Philippine Sea cannot stand because internally you have a problem of your own two factions of government. If Taiwan declares independence then my government might consider ROC's historical claim of the islands. But again, the UNCLOS is still a barrier to that claim as part of the territory is within the Philippines' EZZ. And I doubt that the politburo in Beijing will let that happen.
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June 17th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Doesnt matter. If the reefs belong to Taiwan, it can only be because Taiwan claims to be a direct successor and a representative of China. Whether it belongs to the ROC or the PRC. It wouldnt pass over to the philippines.
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July 6th, 2011 at 11:17 am
Enough of these Chinese Bu@# $h*t. Those reefs is within the 200 mile EEZ. Get out of the Philippines. Bully your way and bring your rig and we will meet you in the 200 mile line.
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July 6th, 2011 at 2:22 pm
No one lives there, its the middle of the ocean. You will get over it.
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July 6th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
You know what a B-O-A-T is right! Maybe you've never seen one. You are building in the REED Bank! 80 km from Palawan. Who are you fooling? It's the largest deposit found so far, gas and oil, in the West Philippine Sea. Get out of here!
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July 6th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Exactly, its most likely about the oil. Still, no one lives on reed bank. China will drill from there and people of the philippines will continue to move on with their lives.
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July 6th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
We will bring down the rig. Just like Goliath. Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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July 6th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Wishful thinking. In all actuality, the rig will be built, and people will just move on.
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July 6th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
"By choosing its own battle" means Americans also use their brains when they go to war. Losing is different from withdrawal. North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, all these nations have no warships, frigates, carriers, no military hardware left for the US to crush and junk. And every war they have engaged into have different missions and OOBs. They don't have to wipe out a nation's entire military personnel in order to tell they have won. The war in Afghanistan and Vietnam was just an opportunity for them to test the "Daisy Cutter Bomb". Just like when they grabbed the opportunity to test the Atomic Bomb in Japan. You know, Americans have this thing for testing their newly-developed military hardware in which China being the only nation in the world that has some "big fat target", and for that they love China to be their next "crash-test dummies" for MOABs (the new and improved Daisy Cutter) and their new weapons. AFAIC, being an Asian myself, I am happy for China for their military development, but this is not the time for them to brandish their arms and army that has not even tested on real wars. Chinese army has not even gone on foreign lands to fight. Don't you wonder why the US sends its army wherever there is war? Even on wars in which they are not even directly involved with? Because they are just using the opportunity to train their soldiers. Wake up, Chinese man. This is not the right time to go to war, not with skilled war veterans who are not afraid to die. Your untrained military is still in infancy, they could be wiped-out faster than you can say Bruce Lee.
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July 6th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Quit spamming
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February 15th, 2012 at 12:44 am
i wish that USA will test their new weapons to Bullshit china i hoping that USA will crushed china soon
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February 15th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Never going to happen. China would crush the us.
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February 15th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Tiefei is just mad,cause the truth hurst,Siopao!
Killing your own people,Tienfei isn't training!
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February 15th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Like I have mentioned before, Im a brutally honest guy. So I dont go around making stuff up.
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