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| Timor denies China seeks base to vs USA |
| 2011-11-28 |
| CHINA has not approached East Timor about establishing a military base in answer to the US troop build-up in Darwin, a Timorese member of parliament has said. Speculation arose last week after the Jakarta Post reported China was said to have proposed establishing a military base in East Timor. "While Timor Leste has yet to approve the proposal, China has continued to assist it by supporting the development of Timor Leste's state offices and public facilities," the Post said. But Jose Teixeira, a member of East Timor's main parliamentary party, Fretilin, and a member of the Defence, Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, told the NT News that no such intent had been expressed. "I am certain the Chinese did not and will not ask," he said. MOre at the NT News link -- Darwin, Australia is getting 2500 US Marines -- and its a HUGE deal for the city. The people are so excited. They went nuts for Obama's visit like a rock star. They love the US, and never forget many US armed forces died protecting them in WWII. BUT it is changing the regional balance of power. Indonesia and China do not like it one bit. Perhaps the U.S. should also have a facility in East Timor. It would help preserve their independence from Indonesia, provide needed income and work for the East Timorese, and cheese off the Chinese no end. Win-win-win. |
| Posted by:Wheaper Unereper4618 |
| #3 Base or no base, Beijing's + PLA's priority will remain JAPAN-OKINAWA-TAIWAN, i.e. NE Asia, espec TAIWAN since its right in the middle or near-middle of the "First Island Chain". Second priority will likely be the NORTHERN PHILIPPINES, i.e. SUBIC + MANILA BAY + LARGE AIRPORTS. FYI MVGUAM [Marianas Variety Guam] > POSSIBLE TEN-YEAR DELAY [2014 = now 2024?], per the reloc the US Marines from Okinawa to Guam in the view of Nippon Lady MP due to the current political situation in Asia, e.g. post-Fukeshima poor Japanese econ + Rising China, PLAN. In case of de facto war agz the tech-superior US, China's strategy is to deter or defeat US Milfors long before the bulk of the latter arrive in-theater, which is why China has been sending its Subs far out to GUAM + HAWAII. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-11-28 23:20 |
| #2 GREAT Idea lets put a US base in Timor too!! You'd have to get them to agree though... might be easier to get a NATO base through, badged Portugal but driven by the US due to historic ties with Portugal. SOrry for posting link twice i didn't see it so i posted again |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-11-28 21:47 |
| #1 I worked with an Indonesian Chinese. He was bitter about the ethnic massacres of the mid sixties, which were carried out by Islamic militias (Chomskyites falsely blame off duty military). According to him, Indos settled debts with Chinos by labelling them "Communists," and bringing in the Islamos. There is growing diaspora thinking in China under "Han power" lines. And they would be aware that the 6% of Indonesia that is ethnic Chinese, controls 60% of the economy, burdened by carpet-hitting primitives. China would like a presence in the area. |
| Posted by: Zorba Creasing4274 2011-11-28 16:55 |