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[Summer Wine]

Its good to see that this issue is being dealt with. China is growing in its assertiveness in the South China Sea and this has the potential to cause conflict.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101403715.html

[Summer Wine]

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The Chinese have built up their conventional missile forces to such an extent that a Rand Corp. report concluded in August that an attack could "cut every runway at Taiwan's half-dozen main fighter bases and destroy essentially all of the aircraft parked on ramps," allowing China total domination of the skies above Taiwan. But this strategic shift has not been accompanied by significant talks between China and the United States, which is legally bound to provide for Taiwan's defense. The Pentagon estimates that by next year, China will deploy as many as five Jin-class submarines, each with a capacity of 12 nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. But there is no protocol for how the American and Chinese navies should deal with incidents at sea. China also has shown little interest in a dialogue about nuclear strategy. It now deploys mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missiles and has more than doubled, to about 80, its supply of nuclear-armed medium-range ballistic missiles. Except for one round of talks with the Bush administration, it has shared no information on its nuclear plans. Three years ago Washington invited the head of China's nuclear weapons command to the United States, but he has yet to come. China knocked an old satellite out of the sky in 2007 when it tested an anti-satellite weapon, and a recent space launch came within 100 miles of the international space station. But Beijing has not talked to the United States about how to deal with the debris or how its space program, run by the army, should interact with those of other nations. China also is believed to be working on a new fighter jet. But it has not hashed out a protocol for what to do when its airmen encounter the American military in the skies. In 2001, a Chinese fighter bumped into a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane over Hainan Island. The fighter pilot was never found, and the Americans crash-landed on Chinese territory, sparking an 11-day standoff before the Chinese released the crew.

[mises]

It's a great time for America to bow and back off. It's their (the Chinese) sphere. Oh well. Shouldn't have elected Nixon.

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It's a great time for America to bow and back off. It's their (the Chinese) sphere.

I hope you are being sarcastic. What gives China the right to dominate the South China Sea and ignore International laws and agreements?

Size of thier land mass, number of their weapons? What about the other countries that have greater rights in the region according to EEZ, maritime laws etc?

The problem is likely to be that China makes a land grab and comes into conflict with a country that has defence ties with the US and all hell breaks loose.

Countries in the region are interested in seeing how China plays its cards, the US seeking to find out what the rules of the game are is just common sense.

We have been here for 5000 yrs is not a good enough reason for causing strife or acting like a bully.

[mises]

No sarcasm. If you want it to be the case or not, China will dominate East and South East Asia. Some states will hedge their bets on Uncle Sam for as long as they can but they all know what the future holds. We should catch up.

[Summer Wine]

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If you want it to be the case or not, China will dominate East and South East Asia

Only if we let them. Nothing is certain.

We can believe the BS that is told to us and roll over and accept thier bullying or we can stand up and show them that we arent living in the 1500s but rather in the 21st century.

They should stay in thier country and make equal deals with counties for the resources they need. They dont need to militarise or bully. Why else do you think we created the UN for if not to create a equal playing field for all.

We can allow the strongest to dictate or we can follow democratic ideals, its our time to stand up. Nothing is etched in stone.

[Kuros]

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[Kuros]

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^ We aren't going to agree.

I take the talk of replacing the dollar very seriously. My views on the future are dominated by shifting global financial power.

[Gopher]

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[Kuros]

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