Obama: China 'using muscle' to dominate in South China Sea

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Obama: China 'using muscle' to dominate in South China Sea - BBC News
The US is concerned China is using "sheer size and muscle" to strong-arm smaller nations in the row over the South China Sea, Barack Obama says.

The US president's comments came amid heightened focus on Beijing's construction of artificial islands in disputed areas of the sea.
On Thursday a US think tank released images showing land reclamation work on a reef claimed by the Philippines.
China says the work is needed to safeguard its sovereignty.
 
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The rampant communism is showing their "muscles" everywhere!

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Here i can see what Pres. Maduro is saying against US gov., against those who voted for Obama, and against whatever thing USA takes care of.

Zamuro (read Maduro) keeps on blaming the US president for anything, but he wants money to back up Venezuelan economy and their project to expand communism in Latin America.

I wish God removed all these guys and their corrupt ideas! Just see what Russia left those countries in Europa, after the split of the URSS.

This is a bloody world.
 
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even in scotland the fishermen, are only allowed to catch a certain quota of fish.
so even government on our shores, have there fingers in the pie, of control of fishermen. etc
 
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That´s not too bad, otherwise, no fish will be left. Tha sad thing is, who is taking MORE than these to live?

China is selling its trash, Venezuela buys anything to feed Venezuelans (there´s a food shortage) and the goverment keeps is saying "we lack nothing", but recently Zamuro travel to China to ask more money to keep this lie on and on.

I wish Jesus came now!
 
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That´s not too bad, otherwise, no fish will be left. Tha sad thing is, who is taking MORE than these to live?

China is selling its trash, Venezuela buys anything to feed Venezuelans (there´s a food shortage) and the goverment keeps is saying "we lack nothing", but recently Zamuro travel to China to ask more money to keep this lie on and on.

I wish Jesus came now!
only if governments, used common sense, i fish, because i need to eat, not to sell.
yet others sell to make a living, ie products of the sea.
 
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Why would the U.S. complain when, beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. literally handed over American innovation/invention, American capital investment, American jobs, etc... to China deliberately robbing American citizens and the long-term U.S. national interest to build Communist China into the strong man of Asia with the largest economy (supplanting the U.S. economy in the process) in the world.

Then, on top of that, the U.S. almost abandoned national security allowing the Chinese to simply steal whatever they didn't already have. So now that China has become the strong man of Asia, as a result, the U.S. is complaining?

Interestingly, the U.S. did the same thing with the Soviet Union in its early days. Read 'Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1930-1945' by Antony C. Sutton published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In fact, read the other two volumes as well.

As one commentator writes:

"The Soviet Union did experience rapid economic growth during the period covered. There's just one problem. The Soviet economic growth was to a large extent made in the USA! This is an often overlooked fact, certainly in Soviet propaganda or Marxist urban legend, where it usually sounds as if the Soviets did it all by themselves...

Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1930 to 1945 painstakingly documents how the Western, capitalist nations were responsible for almost *all* economic growth during the first five-year plans. The Soviets imported, copied or stole large amounts of Western technology, employed foreign engineers and workers, and even appointed foreigners to high-ranking posts within the planning bureaucracy. Most of the assistance came from the United States or Germany (before Hitler).

There were over 200 technical-assistance agreements between the Soviet Union and foreign companies during the period 1929-45. According to Soviet sources, about 6,800 foreign specialists worked in heavy industry in 1932. Of these, about 1,700 were American engineers. The number of foreign specialists at individual sites is sometimes staggering. In 1931, there were about 2000 foreign specialists in the Don coal mines, 80% of whom were Germans. More than 730 Americans worked at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant at one time or another. In 1932, there were 200 Germans at Magnitogorsk. The iron and steel works in this town were the pride of Soviet economic planning, but their construction seems to have been almost solely the work of American and German specialists. Indeed, the Magnitogorsk plant is actually a copy of the steel plant at Gary, Indiana! The Soviet Union also recruited guest workers during this period. 1,500 American miners are said to have worked at the Leninsk mines in Siberia.

Since Soviet engineers were often untrained or downright incompetent, the foreign specialists assumed most of the responsibility for the projects under construction. The Soviet agency responsible for designing all new industrial plants during the period in question, Gosproektstroi, was headed by an American, G.K. Scrymgeour from Albert Kahn Inc. Indeed, the entire agency was organized by the Kahn Company. Several other Soviet agencies responsible for construction were headed by American engineers, or employed them as "consultants". Gipromez, the bureau responsible for Soviet metallurgic industry (including Magnitogorsk) was heavily Americanized, with individual U.S. engineers heading various Gipromez departments. A certain John Calder, known as "Russia's miracle man" held official positions at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, Magnitogorsk, Lake Balkash and other important industrial sites. He was eventually awarded the Order of Lenin.

Some other salient facts: the Soviet iron and steel technology, a favoured development sector, was wholly dependent on foreign design and engineering ability. No new blast furnaces were built between 1917 and 1928. From 1928 to 1932, all Soviet blast furnaces were designed and built under American supervision to U.S. designs. From 1933 to 1938, the Soviets duplicated the technology. The turbo-blowers to the blast furnaces at Magnitogorsk and Kuzbass were built in Switzerland and Germany, and installed in Russia by Swiss and German engineers. General Electric also had its fair share of the turbo-blower business. Sutton further mentions eight complete steel mills, made in the United States, shipped to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Lend-Lease agreement.

And it just goes on and on...."

The U.S. has a history of building their very worst enemies and it always seems like a good idea at the time to U.S. politicians and U.S. businesses. <-- That's the truth.

And now, of course, we've done it again with China. We may do it with Iran too.

 
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Q&A: South China Sea dispute - BBC News
Q&A: South China Sea dispute - BBC News

[h=2]What is the argument about?[/h][h=2]It is a dispute over territory and sovereignty over ocean areas, and the Paracels and the Spratlys - two island chains claimed in whole or in part by a number of countries. Alongside the fully fledged islands, there are dozens of rocky outcrops, atolls, sandbanks and reefs, such as the Scarborough Shoal.

Recent flashpoints[/h]The most serious trouble in recent decades has flared between Vietnam and China, and there have also been stand-offs between the Philippines and China:

  • 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.