genuinechimere:
The United States sent a warship through disputed waters claimed by several countries, but which China considers entirely its own territory, and had pledged to defend. The USS Lassen, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of an island built on the Subi reef in the Spratly islands, a US defense official told USA Today.
China has transformed once submerged reefs in disputed waters in the South China Sea into islands that it claims as its own territory. Because the USS Lassen passed within 12 nautical miles of the man-made islands, the distance international maritime laws define as an island’s sovereign waters, the move essentially demonstrates that the US does not respect these claims.
Before the ship sailed near the Subi reef, Beijing warned the US not to undertake what it would view as provocative acts. “We advise the US to think again and before acting, not act blindly or make trouble out of nothing,” said China foreign minister Wang Yi, according to Reuters. US-based China experts pointed to the possible need for “escalation control,” saying the US could be met by the Chinese navy.

Instead, though, the USS Lassen moved through the area without incident. Asked about the situation, Zhu Haiquan, a spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington, told the Associated Press that China respects freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. But, he stressed, “freedom of navigation and overflight should not be used as excuse to flex muscle and undermine other countries’ sovereignty and security.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said later on Tuesday that USS Lassen had been monitored, followed, and warned, and urged the US to “not take any dangerous or provocative acts that threaten China’s sovereignty and security interests.”
For the past two years, China has been on a building spree in the disputed territory, essentially willing islands into existence by dredging sand from the sea floor and piling it atop submerged reefs.
Then it has topped them with helicopter and airplane landing strips, and fortified buildings, including atop the Subi reef:
China’s explanations for the activity have varied from “providing better weather forecasts” to “better service” for the international ships sailing through the waters to “being bullied” by neighbors into the building. But the claims have been disputed by its neighbors and questioned by the US.

Controversy in the South China Sea dates back to China’s establishment of the nine-dash line at the end of World War Two, which claims most of the busy waterway for China. Vietnam and the Philippines also have competing claims in the area of the Spratly Islands.
The nine-dash line, China now insists, has always been the outer line of China’s territorial waters. But historical maps from China show Hainan Island as China’s southern territory. Old maps, though, don’t carry much weight in the current territorial dispute, maritime experts say.
Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the Philippines have also occupied some of the Spratly’s 200 land features, and the US Navy has called for all nations to halt militarization of the important shipping conduit.
Today’s showdown-that-wasn’t is reminiscent of an earlier US challenge to China’s claims in the South China Sea. Chinese air force officials warned that planes that violated the country’s new “air defense identification zone” in the South China Sea could be shot down when it was established two years ago. But after the US flew two B-52 bombers through the area, China’s issued a terse statement, but no rebuke and no military action.

source: http://qz.com/533756/the-us-just-challenged-china-in-the-south-china-sea-and-nothing-happened/

chuna1985:



japan has also done same and china did nothing so relax...

so u expect China to use a cruise missile to sink that destroyer

chuna1985:



japan has also done same and china did nothing so relax...

so u expect China to use a cruise missile to sink that destroyer

Yanks101:
And who do you think is responsible for the defence of japan?
The united states of america.
Any attack against japan by china is a national suicide mission as long as they have full american support.

Lordave:
People don't even know that Japan is almost fully recovered from the WW2.

It's just a matter of time they will be thinking of colonising China again.

genuinechimere:
The United States sent a warship through disputed waters claimed by several countries, but which China considers entirely its own territory, and had pledged to defend. The USS Lassen, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of an island built on the Subi reef in the Spratly islands, a US defense official told USA Today.
China has transformed once submerged reefs in disputed waters in the South China Sea into islands that it claims as its own territory. Because the USS Lassen passed within 12 nautical miles of the man-made islands, the distance international maritime laws define as an island’s sovereign waters, the move essentially demonstrates that the US does not respect these claims.
Before the ship sailed near the Subi reef, Beijing warned the US not to undertake what it would view as provocative acts. “We advise the US to think again and before acting, not act blindly or make trouble out of nothing,” said China foreign minister Wang Yi, according to Reuters. US-based China experts pointed to the possible need for “escalation control,” saying the US could be met by the Chinese navy.

Instead, though, the USS Lassen moved through the area without incident. Asked about the situation, Zhu Haiquan, a spokesman at the Chinese embassy in Washington, told the Associated Press that China respects freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. But, he stressed, “freedom of navigation and overflight should not be used as excuse to flex muscle and undermine other countries’ sovereignty and security.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said later on Tuesday that USS Lassen had been monitored, followed, and warned, and urged the US to “not take any dangerous or provocative acts that threaten China’s sovereignty and security interests.”
For the past two years, China has been on a building spree in the disputed territory, essentially willing islands into existence by dredging sand from the sea floor and piling it atop submerged reefs.
Then it has topped them with helicopter and airplane landing strips, and fortified buildings, including atop the Subi reef:
China’s explanations for the activity have varied from “providing better weather forecasts” to “better service” for the international ships sailing through the waters to “being bullied” by neighbors into the building. But the claims have been disputed by its neighbors and questioned by the US.

Controversy in the South China Sea dates back to China’s establishment of the nine-dash line at the end of World War Two, which claims most of the busy waterway for China. Vietnam and the Philippines also have competing claims in the area of the Spratly Islands.
The nine-dash line, China now insists, has always been the outer line of China’s territorial waters. But historical maps from China show Hainan Island as China’s southern territory. Old maps, though, don’t carry much weight in the current territorial dispute, maritime experts say.
Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, and the Philippines have also occupied some of the Spratly’s 200 land features, and the US Navy has called for all nations to halt militarization of the important shipping conduit.
Today’s showdown-that-wasn’t is reminiscent of an earlier US challenge to China’s claims in the South China Sea. Chinese air force officials warned that planes that violated the country’s new “air defense identification zone” in the South China Sea could be shot down when it was established two years ago. But after the US flew two B-52 bombers through the area, China’s issued a terse statement, but no rebuke and no military action.

source: http://qz.com/533756/the-us-just-challenged-china-in-the-south-china-sea-and-nothing-happened/

Yanks101:
And who do you think is responsible for the defence of japan?
The united states of america.
Any attack against japan by china is a national suicide mission as long as they have full american support.

Jorussia:
If us get level,make them go sail through Crimea(black sea),whether my second home(Russia)nor go use them take shine.

chuna1985:



You have filled ur head with American movie stupidity.


Who told u that America will defeat China in a full blown war

.....Who told u Japan will ally with America and fight Japan Has Japan n America ever been friends in history

Japan are responsible for their defences, not the unuted states...Where do u get ur information

genuinechimere:
maybe they don't have any interest in that region

genuinechimere:
the United States and Japan have a defence pact. any country that attacks Japan will get the United States involved. even South Korea

Yanks101:
Japan is the greatest and most advanced industrial power in asia.
You can imagine how much terrifying their military will be when they inevitably begin to delve into heavy and advanced defence manufacturing and design with american support.
China is in trouble.

Jorussia:
If us get level,make them go sail through Crimea(black sea),whether my second home(Russia)nor go use them take shine.

Lordave:
Them go do am and nothing go happen, I repeat, nothing go happen!

Una just dey shout Putin Putin Putin. Abeg make una go sit down jor.
They have dared Russian by sailing through the waters of their biggest ally, wetin happen?

chuna1985:



You have filled ur head with American movie stupidity.


Who told u that America will defeat China in a full blown war

.....Who told u Japan will ally with America and fight Japan Has Japan n America ever been friends in history

Japan are responsible for their defences, not the unuted states...Where do u get ur information

Jorussia:
make them(us) by try am first,na there you go know say khaki no b leather.Russia took over Crimea,and are on the verge of taking over the whole of Eastern Ukraine, from the territory of Ukraine who is an ally of the us,what did the us do?Europe is currently existing at the sole discretion of mother Russia.

Lordave:
America is just been diplomatic in this Crimea issue. If we chose to turn Europe into a battlefield, baby Russia will be on her knees learning how to crawl just after 2Weeks.

Jorussia:
from your responses so far,its obvious you don't know the military capability of Russia,because, if you do,i am sure your responses will be different.

Jorussia:
from your responses so far,its obvious you don't know the military capability of Russia,because, if you do,i am sure your responses will be different.

chuna1985:



Japan signed the same Triangle pact with USSR n Germany in d second world war......What later happened

coolitempa:


Muumuu flat.head....what the US military spends in one year alone is equivalent to the entire military spending of the top thirty countries......there is really no basis for comparism safe for the existence of nuclear arsenal in about eight other countries.....

coolitempa:


Muumuu flat.head....what the US military spends in one year alone is equivalent to the entire military spending of the top thirty countries......there is really no basis for comparism safe for the existence of nuclear arsenal in about eight other countries.....