@Tsavo Lion You're welcome again
That's North of Hainan, probably the same idea as island amusement Park as this one
they think it is; also it's a mater of principle: no 1 nation should be permitted to build islands & claim surrounding waters at the expense of others' claims & EEZs.it is not essential for ships bound for Japan and Korea to pass through there
China already proposed to divide the Pacific into spheres, but the US rejected it. She is on her own in this dispute, while Japan & SE Asians have NATO, India & Australia on their side. So, time will tell how it will be resolved!I propose an agreement. I give you SCS and you give me Okinawa, Tokuna and Amami ... and Taiwan ... and Okinotorishima
Too important waterway to leave it in Japan's hands
I think you will understand me
When did China propose such a thing? Find me an official Chinese source and not some BS American daydream.they think it is; also it's a mater of principle: no 1 nation should be permitted to build islands & claim surrounding waters at the expense of others' claims & EEZs.
China already proposed to divide the Pacific into spheres, but the US rejected it. She is on her own in this dispute, while Japan & SE Asians have NATO, India & Australia on their side. So, time will tell how it will be resolved!
I thought 7 billion died under Mao, and he personally strangled each one of them. Didn't Trump also bed 70 million virgins?islands r a different matter, & there is 1st time for everything. If the USSR & US didn't agree on removing BMs from Cuba & Turkey, Cuba would be taken, & Moscow wouldn't have been able to stop it.
The US military can place more C/BMs on friendly islands in SCS as well.
that's now, but it may not last; expect the unexpected!
they'll block land routes/pipelines & ports to/on the Bay of Bengal if they get controlled by the West/India.
I hope u r right!
not counting war losses, ~70M died under Mao, incl. during the so-called Cultural Revolution & Great Leap Forward; China is heading slowly but surely toward another big precipice & once there, may make a big leap forward again if she continues her disasterous policies.
Where did you learn your history? Japan already lost and didn't have nukes to respond and didn't have a delivery method even if they had nukes in 1945.that's in ur biased judgement.
the US used nukes 1st & 2nd time, & may well use them 3rd time, if need be.
could be, but will the US/Japanese counter invasion stopped? China couldn't prevent the US landing at Inchon when most of Korea was lost. she didn't own the Yellow Sea then, & she doesn't own the W. Pacific & SCS now, even with her PLAAF, PLAN & AShBMs.
they may fear of becoming target anyway, so why not use outside help?
who has more modern SSNs, SSBNs, CVNs, CGs, LHA/Ds, & strategic bombers?
the idea of using land route across them is to bypass the Malakka Strait choke point (the planned Kra Canal can too be easily blocked); if those 2 r lost, China won't have an easy access to the Indian Ocean.
I do appreciate the Chinese people suffering they endured in the last 200 years; having said that, IMO hey r on the path to repeat the mistakes of other empires.
the past dynasties were before the CCP showed up; those who don't learn from history r bound to repeat it.
until she is stopped or populate all of its shores with her people.
FYI, not all of them were killed, & many of them now live better then many Chinese.
be humble; instead of self-praising, & wait for other to praise u.
expansion is followed by stagnation & then contraction.