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It's an internal US matter.

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Governor Onaga and friends China will become your new friends really soon at the pace your going.

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The South China Sea is not territorial waters of the Peoples Republic of China. They are important sea lanes for international trade and commerce.

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The US and Australia liberated that region from the Japanese during WW2.

Where was China then?

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Huff and puff all you want China. Those are international waters.

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@Sab, the U and her Allies, would be and is much more accurate. The myriad number of international organisations need to step up and say, 'These are not Chinese waters, the Chinese claim is highly provocative and not based in reality.'

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Self appoint global policeman US government are so full of it, they US government stared more wars than any other countries combine.

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The waters are not disputed China......except you seem to think they belong to you. No nation aligns with your claims.

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I'm not a fan of US world police interventionism in general, but in this case, it is well warranted (not to mention the fact is that as PH is involved, they have an obligation to help their ally in need), not to mention that it's high time to stand up to China and say enough is enough.

These so called historical claims are the most absurd provocation and is highly reminiscent of Imperial Japan's greater Co-Prosperity Sphere of the 1930s. Not to mention the irony is there about how the CCP harps on about Germany, whilst their behavior resembles that of 1930s' Nazi Germany.

China is using a philosophy of “guyou zhi jiangyu — “Chinese territory since time immemorial” to justify its expansion into the disputed areas. Essentially, if China at any time in the past held a piece of land it considers it to remain its rightful property. So essentially, during the Mongol invasion attempts of Japan, I would not be surprised if they tried to lay claims to Hakata Bay under this twisted logic at some point in the future.

I know these comments are going to get me more death threats and threats of violence from these "patriotic 中国人", or accusations of "OMG TRAITOR!" but I feel it's time that this really needs to be brought under control. It's just not right, sorry, and that China is using the evils of the IJA in the past to perpetrate those same evils TODAY.

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Self appoint global policeman US government are so full of it, they US government stared more wars than any other countries combine.

Which some were necessary.

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Which some were necessary.

War is never necessary. Military conflicts should only ever happen if a country is defending itself from attack.

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I prefer a strong USA much more than China or Russia as global superpowers. We may not be perfect though the alternatives are far worse.

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I prefer a strong USA much more than China or Russia as global superpowers. We may not be perfect though the alternatives are far worse.

None are preferable. The best alternative would be all of these countries minding their own f-ing business.

Americans speak from a position of brainwashing from propaganda that America is the good guys, and China/Russia are the bad guys. The people in these countries suffer from the same brainwashing. Ironically, very few of them seem seem to realize that the other side feels much the same way.

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Clearly nationally imposed human rights violations are intertwined in both Russia and China. What human rights are limiting U.S. citizens? And please, don't even say police are targeting the black population. If you feel that's an issue then you've been brainwashed from the media propaganda.

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bass4funkMAY. 14, 2015 - 09:04AM JST Self appoint global policeman US government are so full of it, they US government stared more wars than any other countries combine.

Which some were necessary.

Name a single war in the last 70 years in which the U.S. was involved that was necessary or of value. Korea is the only one I would suggest, but it took them nearly 40 year to recover from it, dispense with martial law (only because of the 1988 Summer Games), and become a viable democracy.

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Beijing expressed anger Wednesday after reports the United States was considering ramping up its military presence in disputed South China Sea waters and confronting Chinese territorial claims with ships and aircraft.

Good on Obama. His Asia Pivot needs to have some teeth to it.

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MarkG, how about violations to the 1st Amendment to the Constitution?

Prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion-No problems there, this is a business.

Impeding the free exercise of religion-See above

Abridging the freedom of speech-BIG problems. Control of the debate process in elections. Control of the access to elections for candidates.

Infringing on the freedom of the press-Big BIG problems. Corporate media and government working together as one entity, hence, how can it be a free press if the corporate media never challenges the government. (Iraq War, 9/11, blatant MSM lies about Russia and Yemen, the Saudi-Al Qaeda connection, TBTF, bailouts, etc, etc, etc?)

Interfering with the right to peaceably assemble-Big problems. Police control of major areas where protests should be allowed access to. "Freedom Areas"; fenced in areas for people to protest far away from the point of interest, and media cameras. Heavily policed, with their own cameras.

Prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances-Basicaly useless today with the wealthy firmly in control of the grievance process, and not enough citizens caring much about it.

And lastly, I think it shows a bit of ignorance to compare Russia's and China's "nationally imposed" policies to the US and it's Constitution.

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The best alternative would be all of these countries minding their own f-ing business.

So what do you do when one country claims just about all of the water and starts making moves to secure it?

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If China was just friendlier to its neighbors instead of bullying them, their neighbors wouldn't have needed to invite the US and Japan.

“Freedom of navigation does not mean that the military vessels or aircraft of a foreign country can willfully enter the territorial waters or airspace of another country.”

Most of the South China Sea are not territorial waters, contrary to China's claims.

China urged “the relevant country” to “refrain from taking risky and provocative actions”, Hua told reporters.

Like building islands?

Vietnam has been under attack from China:

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1555

In 1974 the Chinese seized the Paracels from Vietnam, killing more than 70 Vietnamese troops.

In 1988 the two sides clashed in the Spratlys, with Vietnam again coming off worse, losing about 60 sailors.

In early 2012, China and the Philippines engaged in a lengthy maritime stand-off, accusing each other of intrusions in the Scarborough Shoal.

In July 2012 China angered Vietnam and the Philippines when it formally created Sansha city, an administrative body with its headquarters in the Paracels which it says oversees Chinese territory in the South China Sea.

Unverified claims that the Chinese navy sabotaged two Vietnamese exploration operations in late 2012 led to large anti-China protests on Vietnam's streets.

In January 2013, Manila said it was taking China to a UN tribunal under the auspices of the UN Convention on the Laws of the Sea, to challenge its claims.

In May 2014, the introduction by China of a drilling rig into waters near the Paracel Islands led to multiple collisions between Vietnamese and Chinese ships.

In April 2015, satellite images showed China building an airstrip on reclaimed land in the Spratlys.

This is just Southeast Asians defending themselves from China's attacks.

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Clearly nationally imposed human rights violations are intertwined in both Russia and China. What human rights are limiting U.S. citizens? And please, don't even say police are targeting the black population. If you feel that's an issue then you've been brainwashed from the media propaganda.

If you think that black people are not treated worse by the American legal system than white people, you are the one that has been brainwashed.

As for American human rights violations, you have the biggest prison population in the world. Your government monitors people willy nilly. They have tortured. They do kill indiscriminately with drones. They invade sovereign nations that have not attacked them. And on and on and on. Your really think you are that much better than China?

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SabrageMay. 14, 2015 - 07:26AM JST The US and Australia liberated that region from the Japanese during WW2. Where was China then?

"China" or PRC did not exist until 3 years after WWII ended. The "China that was a WWII ally is now Taiwan, a country that is democratic, allied with the US, and has no problems with Japan despite having actually fought them in WWII, Today all of Asia's democratic, and even a socialist state like Vietnam are welcoming the US presence and even Japanese military presence in the South China Sea to stop China's plans of territorial expansion.

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China urged “the relevant country” to “refrain from taking risky and provocative actions”, Hua told reporters.

The relevant country. How subtle. Refraining from risky and provocative actions is what China has been teaching the world after all, hasn't it?

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