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2014-02-04 Southeast Asia

MILF treaty could allow US bases in Mindanao

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Posted by ryuge 2014-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Moro Islamic Liberation Front

#1 HHHMMMM, HHHHMMMM, interesting, iff Macalanang + MILF do an International "Cam Ranh Bay", where foreign powers save China-PLA are allowed to set up in Subic + Mindanao as opposed to just the US only???

It would help both PHIL national security + economy, including to spur dev throughout the perennially poverty-stricken Southern PHIL from which helped to create the general Moro insurgency.

Lest we fergit, the PHIL allowing China + PLA to set up Milbases on PHIL territory is an option that has found favor in Washington DC as a way to reduce South China Seas tensions between China + PHIL + ASEAN.

* TOPIX > BRITAIN SEEKS RETURN TO INFLUENCE IN ASIA.

"Britain" also read, NATO-EU???

Iff not .... ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK, BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA COULD TARGET OKINAWA [+ Guam] DURING SOUTH CHINA SEA CONFLICTS: US OFFICIAL [USAF] - JAPAN TIMES.

* Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK + JAPAN TIMES > US COULD CHANGE ITS MILITARY POSTURE IFF CHINA SETS UP SECOND ADIZ, in the SCS.

* WORLD NEWS > [Taipei Times] PLA SEEN AS SEEKING TO LIMIT US PROTECTION OF TAIWAN.

PHIL? Japan? ROK? ASEAN?

China is increasingly confident it can defeat any US or US-led military intervention as per Taiwan WHICH IS ASCRIBED AS CHINA'S ULTIMATE/MAIN PRIZE IN ANY MILITARY CONFLICT IN NE OR EAST ASIA.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM [Arirang News = Oriental Daily News] > JAPANESE FIGHTER ENTERS CHINA'S DEFENSE ZONE [East China Sea] DURING ON NEW YEAR'S DAY, in an alleged foolish move on the part of Japan + SDFS that will only serve to escalate curent Sino-Japanese tensions to new levels.

As per PLA MGEN. Luo Yuan.

VERSUS

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > NO SOUTH CHINA SEA AIR ZONE, CHINA ASSURES ASEAN.

Nice to hear, but in reality may not mean anything as China already intends to expand + fortify its CG + PLA garrison in its new offshore Sansha/Sasha province in the SCS, ala wid new or improved Air-Sea capabilities to include the basing of PLAN Destroyers. ANY NEW CHINA ADIZ IN THe SCS CAN EASILY BE QUIETLY PCORRECTLY MERGED OR CONSOLIDATED INTO THE NEW-N-IMPROVED RECCE, DEFENSE CAPABILITIES, ETC. OF THE SANSHA/SASHA PROVINCE.

* RELATED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > PLA DAILY ARTICLE: "WAR WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL AFTER NEW YEAR" FOR THE FIRST OR OPENING MOVES. WAR AGZ JAPAN CAN OCCUR SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT ADVANCE WARNING OR CIRCUMSTANCE.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > US TO CHINA: "HAPPY NEW YEAR"; CHINA TO US: "GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK" | QUARTZ.

Time to pay up, you Amerikan slackard = couch potato???

* SAME > [2012 Artic Repost] HILLARY CLINTON REVEALS CHINA CLAIM TO TERRITORIAL RIGHTS IN HAWAII.

OWG Globalist 1/2-1/2 fair-n-equal sharing of the Pacific = weirdly-n-mysteriously devols in future to 2/3-1/3 or 3/4-1/4 or 7/8-1/8 China to US???

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