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Philippines summons Chinese ambassador over water cannon incident in disputed sea, official says

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The US should be running a few escorts for the Phillipines now. Let's see the Chinese point their squirt gun at one of our littoral combat ships.

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Bring it on China.

" Joint patrols between the Philippines and the United States in the South China Sea may begin later this year, a top diplomat said on Monday, just days after Washington clarified its commitment to defend Manila from an attack at sea."

https://www.reuters.com/world/joint-philippines-us-patrols-south-china-sea-may-begin-by-third-quarter-envoy-2023-05-08/

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Its worth looking up where the Second Thomas Shoal is located on a map of the region to see how ridiculous China's claim to it is. Its nowhere near any Chinese territory.

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Illegal chinese fishing ships should be sunk, as they did in South America

(Argentina).

These constant attacks on non-chinese vessels needs to be forcefully dealt with instead of the pussy-footing around that is done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_HvRK5o8k

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The PRC are relentless in their obsessive pursuit of world domination, never stopping to consider a more considerate and ethical way to present themselves to the rest of the world - this will never happen whilst the fascist-dictators are in charge there, and sadly only a gigantic revolution will dislodge the disgraceful regime.

China is characterised by its' deceitful, despicable and dishonest behaviour, and the only way that the people of the free world can do anything to change this situation is to Never Buy Anything Made in China...... only when they feel the financial squeeze and the balance-sheets burning will there be any change.

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The Chinese aggression should be stopped by a couple of torpedoes!

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China causing trouble, yet again. The country does nothing good for the world - only bad. Even the trade and infrastructure links just cause it to exert leverage over other countries, and conduct economic coercion and espionage.

Obviously Xi doesn't care about China being "liked," but he also doesn't seem to realize that behavior such as this actually weakens China, as other countries move away from it and band together against it. China's economy is slowing, companies are leaving, exports are falling, unemployment is rising, and tech is being closed off to them: one day, China will wake up to find that the world has moved on from it and left it behind.

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The Filipinos should have hosed down the ambassador to make their point nice and clear. Diplomacy be damned, as China doesn't care about it anyway.

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China's actions clearly show their hostile intent. They plan on stealing international territory open to everyone and make it their own. They also intend on stealing other nations recognized exclusive economic zones for their own nefarious purposes.

China has warned the U.S. to stop meddling in what it calls a purely Asian dispute and has warned of unspecified repercussions.

China trying to separate the weaker members of the world to pick them off one by one, expecting to be able to scare others from interfering in their evil goal to create a new Chinese empire across the globe. A heinous leader that threatens the world with his personal ambitions. Those most at risk are Chinese citizens themselves as Putin has shown with his own sick ambitions of conquest costing so many Russian lives amongst the Ukraine casualties.

China must be opposed and stopped before they bring destruction upon the world.

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Filipinos seem to be their own worst enemy spitting on their friends and then asking for help.

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China is copying Japan's use of water cannons against Taiwanese fishing vessels in the past.

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Hiro S NobumasaToday 12:05 am JST

China is copying Japan's use of water cannons against Taiwanese fishing vessels in the past.

So continuing the long tradition among the autocrats of lashing out at third countries for inexplicable reasons? This isn't even third countries, it is like fourth countries or something.

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Coast guard vessels aren't any joke, regardless of the nation. They have weapons that would tear up other ships. They aren't Navy vessels, but they are still potent.

Filipinos have reconnected with the US with their new President after the last guy was thrown out.

Another day, another hostile act by China.

Yep. Seems like their military should be trying to help China with their massive flood cleanup instead of harassing neighbors.

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Throughout the South China Sea region, the aggressor CCP is using military and economic coercion to bully the Philippines and other countries into advancing illegal maritime claims, threatening maritime commercial channels, and destabilizing territories on China's border.

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