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2013-05-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 probably cost more too make it a reef or scrap iyt than too give it away

Posted by chris 2013-05-10 00:52|| 2013-05-10 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Whuzzabout the Philippines - two hand-me-down, ex-HAMILTON-class vessels aren't gonna do much agz the PLA, PLAN, CMS-SOA, etc. vee China's new increasingly militarized offshore Sansha province in the disputed SCS.

Things continue to be highly tensive ...

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [GAM News Online] PHIL SOLGEN:"WE WANT LEGAL, NOT JUST MORAL, VICTORY IN WEST PHIL SEA ROW [wid China = SCS]".

PHIL Solicitor-General Francis Jardeleza.

"Legal" by itself isn't enuff either, as the PHIL must have a strong economy in order to have a strong Military, etc. that can reliably defend what the UNO = UNCLOS + other Internationally recognized Regulatory Bodies/Orgs can't, or won't.

* TOPIX > CHINA WARNS US [again] NOT TO TAKE SIDES IN DIAOYU ISLANDS ROW.

* SAME > CHINA'S ARMY OF WA. China's silent intervention in Myanmar is increasingly not-so-silent, or neutral, anymore???

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > JAPAN DECLARES PROPAGANDA WAR ON CHINA, KOREA, AND RUSSIA OVER DISPUTED TERRITORIES.

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PHILIPPINE NAVY STRAFES CHINESE [fishing] BOAT, KILLING ONE.

* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SHOOTING CALLS FOR STRONG COUNTER-MEASURES - OPED- GLOBALTIMES.CN.

This may NOT end well.

ARTIC = denotes or infers that the PHIL may had shot at a Taiwanese Fishing boat out of angst agz mainland China over the disputed SCS.

THE PHIL HAVE A MUCHO BEEF AGZ BEIJING, THUS THEY INVADE SABAH = MALAYSIA, + NOW FIRE AT A TAIWANESE FISHBOAT???

* SAME > PHILIPPINE COAST GUARD ADMITS SHOOTING AT TAIWAN BOAT | INQUIRER.GLOBALNATION.NET.

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FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > AFP [Armed Forces of PHIL = PHIL Navy] READY TO REPEL CHINESE FLEET[fishing = circa 30 ea. vessels], repor headed to the disputed Spratly Islands [China = Nansha Islands].

Don't think Taiwan, let alone Beijing = mainland China, is gonna stand for the PHIL using de facto heavily armed Navy warships to oppose unarmed Fishing Boats.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN PROTESTS TO CHINA OVER OKINAWA CLAIM.

* SAME > BLOGGER = opined that any INTER-CHINESE [PRC-ROC] REUNIFICATION SHOULD INVOLVE THE FORMAL ANNEXATION BY POST-REUNIFIED CHINA OF THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE PHILIPPINES???

Oh my.

* SAME > [Ladakh]INCURSION WON'T PUSH INDIA INTO SIGNING BORDER DEAL [wid China]: KHURSHID - TIMES OF INDIA.

How ironic that the "Great/Major" Powers try to avoid confrontation only to see lessor Powers/Nations renew the flames, e.g. Afghan-vs-Pak border clashes + ASEAN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-05-10 03:16|| 2013-05-10 03:16|| Front Page Top

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