Tensions flare over South China Sea at Asian summit

Once again, China has used it’s puppet Cambodia, to obstruct and also this time it seems, give false statements as the host of ASEAN. This is the CCP contributing to ‘peace and stability’ in the asia-pacific. The Chinese nationalist will now howl their approval as ASEAN begins it’s atrophy. Alea iacta est, now it is time for those who actually genuinely care about the asia-pacific to move closer together.

The Chinese are the new imperialist in thr world. They also flood other countries with their PIRATED and VERY LOW QUALITY goods. They bully the smaler Asian countries in oder to get what they want.

Exactly what legitimate business do we Americans have in Asia, on the other side of the planet, while ignoring China which is right there ?

How would we like it if the Chinese Navy performed military exercises off the north coast of Cuba and had a permanent presence there ?

That’s what we are doing to them.

Just who are the aggressors here. Eh?

The United Nations Law of the Seas, which is 30 years old establishes a 12 mile limit of sovereignty. China is a member of the UN, yet they want the Pacific Ocean as their lake — I wonder if that includes Hawaii and San Francisco?

Russian President Putin, who was expected, does not seem to have arrived. Will he make an excuse again?

I hope that Obama is extremely careful in what he says. How he says it He could make the situation worse very easily.. So I will cross my fingers and hope.. nothing dumb will be said!

“How would we like it if the Chinese Navy performed military exercises off the north coast of Cuba and had a permanent presence there ?”

This is exactly what China is doing to it’s neighbours. Just because China is in asia, does not give it a ‘right’ to everyone elses territory. Why do you think countries here, even countries like Vietnam, are reaching out for help? It’s because the real bully is already in the neighbourhood. China is gambling that the enmity it builds, can be offset with military power and threats.

A lot of people go on about ‘oh the US is the bad guy in asia because of the vietnam war etc etc.. but people in the Asia-Pacific are generally young and look to the future, not the past. We dont have the hang-ups many regions have, so wanting friends to balance China, even ones like the US is not a big deal. On top of that, a lot of what the US has done in the region has been positive, it’s a damn site better than disasters like the ME. To start with, without the US, we would all (most of us did)have fallen to Japanese facism and the racial currents that took with it. China on the other hand, does not have a history of positive interaction with other asian or pacific countries. Just one of conflict and expansion, something it seems to revel in whenever it feels ‘on the rise’. Just another empire stealing from smaller countries. Plain and simple. We certainly dont need people acting as apologists for it’s aggression.

@Fre.P, the Japanese imperialist, militarist, 20+ millions massacre whitewasher, is out in force today, in disguise as a human rights defender, as usual.

Huffington Post is becoming a well known platform for propagating myths that panders to the base, selfish instincts. That’s because censuring is final if enough ignorant readers believe in the falsehood.

That’s exactly how we stifled all the rational voices that questioned the evidence of WMDs, and condemned demonstrations in France and Asia that warned us about the Iraq war. Huffington has not yet learned, or is choosing not to learn, because it’s more lucrative to propagate near-tabloid news. Those newspapers which questioned the evidence of WMDs did not sell nearly as well as those which fanned the war cries. Same thing here. It’s popular and sells to pander to those who want to use less of the intellect, and just point fingers to make oneself feel good, even when they should know that eventually it will feel worse, as in Hurtlocker.

Japan warns? On which basis? On the basis of the 50-million civilian death of war crimes?

Japan has shown it is a true rogue state.

The US policy makers and think-tanks are too busy beating its competitor(China), while ignoring the immenent life-threatening danger(Japan). Very short-sighted elites! For them, losing a competition is worse than losing their life (and the lives of millions other).

I see that Reuters has started to censure posts that are of mainstream American values by Americans, in favor of Japanese revisionists who support war criminals who bombed Pearl Harbor.

Is Reuters bribed by Japan? Routinely. It is so blatant in the last few months. No Americans can even speak the truth, without getting slandered by Japanese imperialists and militarists.

I am not even from Mainland China, but American, speaking with American values based on informed history.

What’s to censure: Reuters does not want the world to remember the list of countries Japan invaded in World War II, even when Japan keeps honoring those class I war criminals.

I grew up in the free world, believing that mainstream western media take seriously their role and duty to make sure another holocaust does not happen. Japan WAS the official ally of Hitler. Japan’s viewpoints on non-Asian Chinese were exactly the same as Hitler’s views on blacks, Jews. That’s historical truth. Reuters wants to help Japan whitewash history. Fine. Stop pretending to be an international news agency, because Reuters is not, when censuring basic historical facts of Japanese war history that @fre is distorting.

Cuba is so far from China, not even in the same ocean.
Yet, @fre compares China’s activity within South China Sea, as if it is as far as Cuba from China. That is not remotely rational. Yet, Reuters allows it. Reuters must be bribed, or Reuters should stop representing itself as a fair international news agency. Plain and simple.

Reuters will be punished and discredited indeed, with such extremely biased censuring that covers up historical facts that are undisputed.

@fre:
Cambodia, according to Kissinger’s book, On China, was saved from invasion by Vietnam by China.
By Kissinger’s rendition, China was acting similar to the way George Herbert Walker Bush helped defend Kuwait from Saddam Hussein in the first Iraq war. Because of China’s military, Vietnam did not advance further into Cambodia. That’s why it is absolutely reasonable that Cambodia is pro-China.
Kissinger was giving accounts of what China had informed the United States and a number of other Asian countries, at the time when he was the Secretary of State of the United States.

@fre: Given your consistent bias: like comparing Cuba distance on par with China asserting its ancient borders in South China sea. The waters are called South China sea. Of course, it is reasonable for China to be active there.

Reuters censures historical facts that even Harvard students have to read in the textbooks written by Kissinger; yet, allows clearly biased views by @fre.

Seriously. Is Reuters bribed?

Yes. Reuters has been bribed for months.
And will go down in history as such.

Anytime the simple historical fact that Hitler was the official ally of Japan, and the ally of the war criminals recently honored by Japan, which spiked the recent territorial spat — that truth, is often shouted down by Japan history revisionists.

China was a victim of the alliance of Hitler and Japan. Some estimated 20 millions massacred. Others estimated.

Out of respect for these war victims, any time Japanese revisionists like @fre call China Hitler, that should definitely be censured, because China never invaded Japan ever in history. Japan invaded China multiple times.

Reuters is bribed. and will go down in history as such. No other explanations I can think of. It is so egregious in supporting distortion of undisputed history, and censure truth!

@fre:
Remember your ongoing lesson from me on why you are racist against all non-Japanese Asian?

Read your first post. You are unreasonably degrading Cambodians without justification, and with total disregard of the historical relations between China and the way China had helped Cambodia.
Any country in Cambodia would have supported China.

Yet, you talk down, denigrate Cambodia; it’s part of the ongoing long list of your racism against non-Japanese Asians, with reckless disregard of historical truth.
That’s part of your ongoing demonstration of racism. I will pray for you.

Also, @fre, when used as a possessive pronoun, the spelling is “its”, not “it’s”.

Any chance the Japanese editors are deliberately leaving out fresh news from the U.S. Reuters edition, so that egregiously false rendition of historical facts by Japanese militarists can have a field day, or two, before correction starts to surface. And then, the excuse not to censure kicks in.

Somebody non-Japanese, with objective historical knowledge of longstanding history of Japanese, highly skillful, distortion of political history, should be editor of the Reuters Japanese page.

Otherwise, I don’t see the reason why pages that are unavailable for comments from the United States suddenly become available, but the egregious distortion of history had already been propagated for 2 days or more!

Reuters top Administrators need to investigate. Otherwise, Reuters’s international reputation is practically toast among the elite.