China's SCS Strategy Thread

[Wrought]

Speaking of great power struggles, some interesting news today about a US psyop campaign to promote antivax views among Filipinos in 2020 (targeting Chinese vaccines). The sort of news which might encourage you to pay attention to the bigger picture instead of obsessing over rusty hulks all day.

“I’m sure that there are lots of people who died from COVID who did not need to die from COVID,” she said.

To implement the anti-vax campaign, the Defense Department overrode strong objections from top U.S. diplomats in Southeast Asia at the time, Reuters found. Sources involved in its planning and execution say the Pentagon, which ran the program through the military’s psychological operations center in Tampa, Florida, disregarded the collateral impact that such propaganda may have on innocent Filipinos.

“We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”

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[N00813]

Speaking of great power struggles, some interesting news today about a US psyop campaign to promote antivax views among Filipinos in 2020 (targeting Chinese vaccines). The sort of news which might encourage you to pay attention to the bigger picture instead of obsessing over rusty hulks all day.

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[Wrought]

The Philippines military chief is telling fishermen not to worry about the new law because their navy and coast guard will be there.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines assured that all fishermen in the West Philippine Sea can continue fishing in their traditional fishing grounds in the area, military chief General Romeo Brawner Jr. said on Friday.

In a media interview, Brawner said the AFP assures that all fishermen in the WPS can continue fishing in their traditional fishing grounds in the area.

“That’s our message. We told them that, for them not to be afraid, but to just go ahead with their normal activities to fish in our exclusive economic zone, we have the right to exploit the resources in the area. So our fishermen should not be afraid,” Brawner said in an ambush interview with reporters.

“Anyway, your Armed Forces of the Philippines, our Philippine Navy, and the Philippine Coast Guard are there,” he added.

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I view this as an excellent opportunity for CCG to prove those words empty by arresting a couple fishermen, as I previously mentioned. In contrast to the risky idea of attacking armed soldiers at a predetermined location where they will certainly try to make an annoying mess of a diplomatic incident (as advocated by certain stupid nationalists), arresting unarmed and unprepared civilians at an unspecified location allows CCG the luxuries of flexibility and initiative. They free to pick and choose which targets are the most vulnerable, most isolated, and least likely to cause trouble. Instead of striking where the enemy is relatively strong, you strike where they are weakest. Minimum risk, maximum reward. Anything less is an unforced error. I really don't understand why this simple logic is hard for some people to follow.

The Philippines have kindly provided the opportunity to look both foolish and weak by making promises they can't back up. Hopefully CCG takes advantage of it.

 

[ansy1968]

It takes a Scott Ritter to open up a debate about our involvement with the US in the SCS (see the comments and the reaction it created, like I've been saying before there are a lot of patriotic silent majority and it needed a spark, hopefully this is one of many), Thank you very much sir BUT its disappointing that it takes an American to wake us up to the peril of war. We as a nation is so immature and lacking in sophistication to tackle our nation interest at heart that it requires an outsider advise to move things forward.

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SCOTT RITTER: "The United States is incapable of fighting a sustained conflict against a peer-level force. The United States ...
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[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801817426306470036

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801874042498257397

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Philippines files UN claim to extended continental shelf in South China Sea​

MANILA, June 15 (Reuters) - The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes with China.

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The new Philippine Air Force forward operating base is set to host the service's maritime patrol assets dedicated for the South China Sea.​

The Philippines is looking to create a new base on the site of a former American naval air station at Subic Bay to increase its aerial surveillance and power projection capabilities in the South China Sea.

A new forward operating base that can support reconnaissance and attack aircraft will be established at Subic Bay International Airport according to Philippine Air Force bidding documents and development plans.

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, it was only this year that the service invited companies to bid for the project.

At least the Pinoys are loyal followers, they go all the way.

 

[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801962195800240502

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The far right path should be the pinoy coastguard ship.

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US Navy ships in the area.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801743246881890517

China, Philippines and US all know the focus is on the BRP Sierra Madre at Huangyan Island.

 

[coolgod]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801834658482581550

In-case dumbf**ks like @Wrought still didn't get the message, China's new maritime administrative law isn't mean to target real fisherman.

 

[Wrought]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1801834658482581550

In-case dumbf**ks like @Wrought still didn't get the message, China's new maritime administrative law isn't mean to target real fisherman.

Did you even bother watching your own video, you utter dipshit? At 1:08, 杨霄 talks about how the fishermen are organized and supplied by the Philippines government to occupy disputed areas. These are the targets of the law, and the ones who would be arrested. Or do you think CCG is trying to grab some fishmonger in Manila harbor? The problem is, and always has been, disputed territory. Fishermen are not an inherent problem, they become a problem when they are on disputed territory. Hence the new law.

You can't even check your own sources, dumbfuck. And you're trying to insult me?

 

[coolgod]

Did you even bother watching your own video, you utter dipshit? At 1:08, 杨霄 talks about how the fishermen are organized and supplied by the Philippines government to occupy disputed areas. These are the targets of the law, and the ones who would be arrested. Or do you think CCG is trying to grab some fishmonger in Manila harbor? The problem is, and always has been, disputed territory. Fishermen are not an inherent problem, they become a problem when they are on disputed territory. Hence the new law.

You can't even check your own sources, dumbfuck. And you're trying to insult me?

Watch the whole video, he clearly claim the target of the law are maritime militia pretending to be fishermen.

 

[Wrought]

Watch the whole video, he clearly claim the target of the law are maritime militia pretending to be fishermen.

Semantics. The line between fishermen and maritime militia is blurry at the best of times (not just a Philippines thing, China does it too). Which is a sensible use of resources since the same boats can easily fill different roles on different days as needed. But Filipino fisherman are broadcasting their intention to ignore Chinese law, and arresting a few will teach them the consequences of that.

Opposition and fishermen groups in the Philippines destroyed a cardboard effigy of Chinese President Xi Jinping outside Beijing’s consulate in Manila on Friday in a protest on the eve of a new regulation allowing the Chinese coastguard to detain foreigners over trespassing in the South China Sea.

Mong Palatino, secretary general of opposition party-list group Bayan Muna, said protesters were condemning what they saw as China’s baseless action in the West Philippine Sea, Manila’s name for waters within the South China Sea that lie within its exclusive economic zone.

“Fishermen and the Filipino people will defy the order. It is China which should be held accountable as trespassers,” Palatino said.

Leonardo Cuaresma, leader of the New Masinloc Fishermen’s Association in the town of Masinloc in Zambales, a province near Scarborough Shoal, told This Week in Asia in a phone interview that his community would continue to operate in their traditional fishing ground.

“We will continue to fish. We don’t care about that rule because we believe we are not violating any law,” Cuaresma said. “It’s like an ordinary day for us. They have been doing that before. They imposed a fishing ban and now they have added a new regulation. We are already immune to that.”

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The target is violaters of disputed territory, you can call them whatever you want. They can call themselves whatever they want too, and the label of "fishermen" won't protect them. If they violate the law, they should be arrested. Of course it's not practical to arrest everyone, which is why I said CCG should make a few examples.