Screw China and the One China Policy

[kaz]

Taiwan is a free country. Why are we supporting a Marxist State over them?

It's ridiculous that we allow China to psycho us into a one China policy. We don't get shit for it. China keeps claiming more and more international waters as their own with only beligerance to back it up.

They also try to tell us we can't sail in international waters where they don't want us. Who the fuck are they? We are the US of A. We need to either end the policy or get a massive deal from them. Why is China ruling us?

Kudos to Trump for at least bringing that abomination into the public forum again

 

[Unkotare]

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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - we gonna have to whup `em...

A full blown war over South China Sea Islands awaits U.S.-China?
Tuesday 24th January, 2017 | WASHINGTON, U.S. - The United States on Monday promised to ensure the United States would prevent China from taking over territory in international waters in the South China Sea.

“The U.S. is going to make sure that we protect our interests there,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said when asked if the new U.S. president agreed with comments by his Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson earlier this month that China should not be allowed access to islands it has built in the disputed South China Sea. “It’s a question of if those islands are in fact in international waters and not part of China proper, then yeah, we’re going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country,” he said. Spicer did not elaborate on how the U.S. would enforce such a move, only saying, “I think, as we develop further, we’ll have more information on it.”

Following Tillerson’s remarks at his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this month, during which he suggested a more aggressive strategy toward Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, Chinese state media expressed its displeasure. Without elaborating, Tillerson had said, “We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that first the island-building stops and second your access to those islands is also not going to be allowed.” In a warning to the Trump administration, the influential Chinese state-sanctioned The Global Times had then said "unless Washington plans to wage a large-scale war in the South China Sea, any other approaches to prevent Chinese access to the islands will be foolish." "Tillerson had better bone up on nuclear power strategies if he wants to force a big nuclear power to withdraw from its own territories," an opinion piece said on the paper's English-language site.

It said Tillerson's statements were "far from professional." "If Trump's diplomatic team shapes future Sino-U.S. ties as it is doing now, the two sides had better prepare for a military clash." The English-language China Daily adopted a similar position. "Such remarks are not worth taking seriously because they are a mish-mash of naivety, shortsightedness, worn-out prejudices, and unrealistic political fantasies. Should he act on them in the real world, it would be disastrous," it said. "What happened on Wednesday shows that if and when confirmed, Rex Tillerson needs to first acquaint himself with the ABCs of China-U.S. relations and diplomacy at large." “It is certainly no small matter for a man intended to be the U.S. diplomat in chief to display such undisguised animosity toward China,” it added.

The official response of the Chinese government was milder. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang said that “like the U.S., China has the right within its own territory to carry out normal activities.” Washington-based South China Sea expert Mira Rapp-Hooper at the Center for a New American Security said the threats to bar China’s access in the South China Sea were “incredible” and said it had no basis in international law. “A blockade – which is what would be required to actually bar access – is an act of war,” she added. “The Trump administration has begun to draw red lines in Asia that they will almost certainly not be able to uphold, but they may nonetheless be very destabilising to the relationship with China, invite crises, and convince the rest of the world that the United States is an unreliable partner.”

China's embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the remarks from the White House. China claims about 80 percent of the energy-rich South China Sea despite the findings of the arbitration court in The Hague earlier this year which ruled in favor of the Philippines, rejecting China's territorial claims in the strategic waterway. Besides the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim rights over the waters.

A full blown war over South China Sea Islands awaits US-China

 

[TomParks]

All you need to do is hit China in the wallet and its all over for them