China's SCS Strategy Thread

coolgod

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tamsen_ikard

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  • No more statements of concern and pronouncements of ironclad commitments.
  • Have US Navy ships and aircraft accompany Philippine boats on any and all missions in Philippine territory where the Chinese might interfere – and use force if necessary. Resupply Second Thomas Shoal using US ships and helicopters if necessary.
  • Don’t just resupply. Help the Philippines build a permanent structure on Second Thomas Shoal – and help them defend it.
  • And send the US Navy along with Philippine ships to Scarborough Shoal and remove all Chinese boats squatting in the area.
Make it clear to Beijing that if it wants a fight, it will get one. Nothing short of this will work.

The US should also apply pressure asymmetrically. Suspend the People’s Bank of China’s license to operate in the US dollar system for six months and ban all technology exports to China for six months as well.
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Think tankers are so angry that they demand WW3. Or probably they think China will back down and thus US should just stomp its feet a little bit. I think China will have to ram a US ship in SCS next just to make a point.
 

manqiangrexue

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Completely unrelated to the thread topic, but your sample is probably from Indian students in America, and everyone who makes it from India to America is cream of the crop in India. There is some amount of sampling bias.
Indian students in America do not accurately represent Indian students in India.
Indian immigrants are the best and brightest from India, most likely from high caste families, so there is some sample bias in overseas countries.
Isn't this true for Filipinos as well, that only the best are in the US?
Having your special forces arrested and then the guns seized by civilian cost guard units for sure sounds like a humiliation to me
If they were capable of feeling humiliation, they would have thought about things and calmed down way before this incident took place. A homeless drunk throwing a tantrum in the mud feels no humiliation; even if he swings and misses, falling face first into a pile of dog shit, he just keeps going like nothing happened. The best he wants to achieve is to put a stain on his opponent's expensive suit.
 

Overbom

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Dunno if real or your usual face saving PR move by the US
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Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute​

The Philippines has secretly reinforced a dilapidated warship marooned on a South China Sea reef that is central to an increasingly dangerous dispute with Beijing, according to six people familiar with the operation.
In recent months, the Philippine military has conducted missions to reinforce the Sierra Madre, which is lodged on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands, the people said. It did so due to rising concern that the rusting ship was in danger of breaking apart.
“Beijing is probably aware and infuriated that the Philippines has successfully delivered construction materials . . . China has waited 25 years for the ship to disintegrate and slide off the reef and continued escalation against the Philippines suggests that they will not back down and admit defeat,” said Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund.
 

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Now that i looked carefully from 20-35 sec, looks like CCG medic is performing first aid on the injured Philippine NAVSOG. I guess AFP did not care to bring a medic.



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The Chinese don’t wear that camo. That is a Filipino NAVSOG sailor performing first aid on another sailor.
 
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