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Thread: The conventional wisdom on china’s island bases is dangerously wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Right. We have plans for everything. Even a war with Canada.
    That's incorrect . You have no plans at all for many things that you should have a plan for........... probably because so much time and energy is spent making plans for wars ......and you've already had a war with Canada , even before they were called Canada.
    Last edited by PJL; 01-12-2020 at 10:14 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    That's incorrect . You have no plans at all for many things that you should have a plan for........... probably because so much time and energy is spent making plans for wars ......and you've already had a war with Canada , even before they were called Canada.
    You are not qualified to say that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Right. We have plans for everything. Even a war with Canada.
    That doesn't meant that we have intensions to go to war with Canada in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    That doesn't meant that we have intensions to go to war with Canada in the future.
    Right
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Right
    The idea presented here that we have plans or intensions to go to war with China over this is silly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    Because his main concern seems to be controlling the region from a military perspective , and different methods of bombing and disabling the islands......it's quite obvious.
    I'm finding it hard to believe you even read the article, PJL. Can I just point to a section.....here, I'll put quotes around it....
    Thanks to the facilities on its island bases, hundreds of militia vessels and a large number of coast guard ships are based hundreds of miles from the
    Chinese coast for months at a time. They engage in frequent harassment of civilian and law enforcement activities by neighboring states, making it prohibitively risky for Southeast Asian players to operate in the South China Sea. The threat of Chinese naval and airpower, meanwhile, dissuades neighboring states from using more forceful military responses against these illegal actions. Left unchallenged, this primarily nonmilitary strategy will secure Chinese control over the waters and airspace of the South China Sea in peacetime and undermine America’s role as a regional security provider
    So, China engages in frequent harassment of civilian and law enforcement activities by neighboring states.
    China makes it prohibitively risky for Southeast Asian players to operate in the South China Sea
    Dissuades its' neighboring states from using more forceful military responses against these illegal actions
    Ensuring Chinese control over the waters and airspace of the South China Sea

    But it's the author who wants military control?

    Did you read the article?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    You are not qualified to say that.
    You are not qualified to say that I am not qualified to say that ............there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ransom View Post
    But it's the author who wants military control? [/COLOR]
    Apparently . The bulk of his document is about military strategies in a war with China . However , China and the countries surrounding the South China Sea have settled their differences and signed documents accordingly . Even Japan has improved diplomatic and trading relationships with China. The Sth China sea is about trade - not war. The author of this paper is not the last word on the situation in the Sth China sea - the countries who exist there are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    That's incorrect . You have no plans at all for many things that you should have a plan for........... probably because so much time and energy is spent making plans for wars ......and you've already had a war with Canada , even before they were called Canada.
    Wrong again


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    Quote Originally Posted by PJL View Post
    You are not qualified to say that I am not qualified to say that ............there!
    I am qualified to say you aren’t qualified to say that.

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