⌛ US military Post philippines again??

So the US is moving more than 50% of its pacific fleet or entire navy closer to asia in exercises but I think Its due to china clammering about oil drill and other resources in the waters between it and south east asia...philippines even had to speak up about encroachment on its off shore resources....SO maybe philippines policy with pressure from US military interest will change to consider US military leasing space for posting??? I saw on the news where US is eyeing chinas new aircraft carrier ambitions and the stealth fighter etc all during the time china is pushing its wieght off shore vietnam and philippines.....You know they are every where in Africa mining and drilling and buying resources from south america to sell into products to america and europe. I cant imagine why they would need to scrape the scraps from poor little south east asia?????/Hmmm maybe US military post again here and PX maybe for bargain hunters???:o

 

Oil

Spratly Islands. I think what all the fuss is about ...

Two US Navy guided missile destroyers await joint exercise to begin at the Puerto Princessa Port in Palawan Wednesday. More than 1,200 US and Philippine Navy personnel began 11 days of exercises Tuesday that would include live-fire drills, tracking and interdiction and patrolling maneuvers in the Sulu Sea off the western Philippine province of Palawan, which lies near the disputed Spratly Islands. AP/Xinhua

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of National Defense has welcomed a US Senate resolution that “deplores” China’s use of force in the potentially resource-rich West Philippine Sea.

Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said the resolution is an assurance that the Philippines can rely on the United States to defend its claimed territories in the Spratly Islands.

“This is good for us because we have an assurance that at least the US will extend assistance in case there is a conflict in the area,” Gazmin said Friday.

Tensions in the West Philippine Sea region have escalated in recent weeks, with the Philippines and Vietnam alarmed at what they say are increasingly aggressive actions by Beijing in disputed waters.

The US Senate’s symbolic resolution “deplores the use of force by naval and maritime security vessels from China in the South China Sea” and urges a “multilateral, peaceful process to resolve these disputes.”

The Senate measure also “supports the continuation of operations by the United States Armed Forces in support of freedom of navigation rights in international waters and air space in the South China Sea.”

Gazmin said it simply shows that the US Senate is not pleased with the way China asserts its claims over the contested 750 reefs, islets, atolls, cays and islands in the West Philippine Sea.

He said the US involvement in the West Philippine Sea territorial issue could “result to a stalemate.”

“[China] is a superpower and the one not agreeing with its policies in the area is another superpower [US]. So a superpower against a superpower will result to a stalemate,” Gazmin said.

But Gazmin said it was not necessary for the US to deploy a large number of troops in the West Philippine Sea.

“They don’t necessarily have to deploy a big number of troops. What is important is that they ensure that there is no atrocity in the area of dispute,” Gazmin said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has filed several diplomatic complaints on China’s alleged incursions in Manila-claimed territories in the West Philippine Sea.

Armed Forces Chief Ricardo Oban Jr. has accused Chinese vessels and air crafts of intruding into the areas within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone.

China dismissed the US Senate resolution, saying it “does not hold water” as it maintained that the disputes “should be resolved through direct negotiations between the directly concerned parties.”

Recent incidents have put the security spotlight on the West Philippine Sea, a potentially oil-rich area where China has sometimes overlapping disputes with Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Vietnam recently carried out live-fire drills and the Philippines ordered the deployment of its naval flagship after accusing China of aggressive actions

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China a superpower? Compared to the Philippines maybe.

 

The Chinese hold the power to collapse the US economy tomorrow.

 

Wrong! China has the power to call their loan... and the USA has the power to say, BUMMER.

 

No, I'm not wrong, but your response is quite simplistic and is a product of MSM propaganda

A sell-off of US Treasury instruments by the Chinese would perpetuate a worldwide economic panic.

The illusion that USG treasury paper is valued and sought after by foreign entities is the only thing keeping the USD afloat. When in reality it's the private credit cartel known as the Federal Reserve that has been quietly buying up US debt.

So yes, absolutely, a sell-off of US treasuries by the Chinese would definitely tip that first domino over, and then it would be a panic sale by the rest of the world.

 

wow Its news to me that the US navy is in palawan waters,,I knew they were close and that guam is now the largest naval centre in America just because of the deployments to this region where gaum is the head or center of operations deployment..........I remember well before the collapse around 2006 or 07 where the chinese investors were heavily invested in american packaged mortgages and they took quite a hit when the American mortgage market took the world market down with it where the US reserve chief said America has an infectious greed problem in his state of the economy address before the collapse and he predicted it once and said no more....China came out on top and knows now every collapse will send the world running to buy cheap chinese....China the master of our demands and we slaves to our demands there fore slaves to china by proxy......But America profits the most by war so that is a table turner that china wants nothing to do with so America just parks its load in sulu and philippines sea and china just chills back knowing it wont be easy to just take over asia.

 

And vice versa if we default on all of their loans or quit buying all of their crap, either way their economy would collapse like a house of cards! :D

 

You're probably right, but does that give you comfort?

Is "if they do it to us, they'll go down too" a good economic policy?

Me thinks not

 

Yeah! We must really be doing great with two and a half wars going on.