China's SCS Strategy Thread

[ACuriousPLAFan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834736080253526243

"No corruption in the Philippines"

Not even after 10+ years of comprehensive anti-corruption campaign held across every tier of the Chinese government has anyone in China dared to utter such a sentence.

Hats off to the Pinoys.

The Filipinos do have a lot of nerve to come begging for investment from China.

Considering that the Pinoys just proposed exchanging the eastern half of the so-called "West Philippines Sea" with pretty much the northern half of Indochina (+ a potential direct access to the Indian Ocean, given how the map is drawn to the west), I'd say it's a deal worth considering.

 

[Temstar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834961883889119739

No man can go to war with his own stomach and win
Actually if I were to guess I would guess they ran out of water first, that's going to be the hardest thing to resupply by helicopter.

Funny thing is it was only 3 days ago that senior US defense official said this:

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[ACuriousPLAFan]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834961883889119739

No man can go to war with his own stomach and win

Right...

If this is true (and not a spoofing attempt), China better be having dredger vessels ready for action, together with a huge flotilla of CCG cutters and fishing boats surrounding and blocking the shoal from any outside intruders.

Plus a PLAN Shandong CSG in the distance, just in case.

 

[Wrought]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834961883889119739

No man can go to war with his own stomach and win
Actually if I were to guess I would guess they ran out of water first, that's going to be the hardest thing to resupply by helicopter.

Funny thing is it was only 3 days ago that senior US defense official said this:

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Well clearly it was necessary to tell the Philippines to stop writing checks they can't cash. Manila can only threaten US intervention if the US is actually behind them. From a military perspective, Sabina is worthless. It's basically just Filipino ego at stake, and who's truly willing to go to war over that?

 

[siegecrossbow]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834961883889119739

No man can go to war with his own stomach and win
Actually if I were to guess I would guess they ran out of water first, that's going to be the hardest thing to resupply by helicopter.

Funny thing is it was only 3 days ago that senior US defense official said this:

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1834961883889119739

No man can go to war with his own stomach and win
Actually if I were to guess I would guess they ran out of water first, that's going to be the hardest thing to resupply by helicopter.

Funny thing is it was only 3 days ago that senior US defense official said this:

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Confirmed.

And as I’ve astutely observed in a different thread:

Chinese boomers took a shithole country and built it into a super power. American boomers took a super power and made it a supa powa.

 

[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835132513251213717

Satellite image confirms the semi grounded ship finally left China's Xianbin Jiao.

 

[Temstar]

So would this withdraw cause political damage to Marcos since he's been rah-rah about it? People are already rubbing it in on twitter:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835193824756510966

 

[vincent]

China proved the Hegemon’s security guarantees don’t worth the paper they are written on.

 

[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835189002972151942

BREAKING: BRP Teresa Magbanua returns to Palawan wirh hungy and dehydrated personnel. Magbanua had been sent to Escoda Shoal some 140 kms away from Palawan to guard against alleged Chinese reclamation activities in the area. China has been blocking resupply missions to Magbanua and has called on the Philippines to withdraw the ship. The Philippine Coastguard says the withdrawal was due to humanitarian reasons more than political. PCG Spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea cited bad weather in the arwa compounded by damage sustained by ramming by China Coastguard ships in August. Sources say personnel have been subsisting on rice porridge (llugar) for weeks and were out of food two days prior to return

Sounds pretty weak, if the roles were reversed I don't think the PLA would retreat in shame like this.

 

[Temstar]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835189002972151942

Sounds pretty weak, if the roles were reversed I don't think the PLA would retreat in shame like this.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1835202957652246627

Seems like they were low on both food and water, the level of dehydration was serious enough that four people had to be air lifted.