I try to keep my readers abreast of the international situations that could blow up in the country’s face and present yet more opportunities for it to be drawn into conflicts that are none of our business…..
The situation in the South China Sea has been in the news for over a year now…..and still few have any idea of what it is all about…..basically, it is a game of Risk, a geopolitical thriller…..
In my attempt to help my readers understand some of the more complex situations internationally…..and when the Spratley Islands are mentioned it usually is met with a big “dunno”….
I found a good piece that will help my reader understand this situation…..
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has delivered its verdict on the territorial spat. DW answers some of the questions related to the case to explain what the dispute is about and what is at stake.
Source: What is the South China Sea row about? | Asia | DW.COM | 12.07.2016
There are at least 7 countries that are claiming some part of the island chain….and then there is the US that must feel compelled to stick our noses into this situation….we are sending many Naval vessels to the region to counter the moves by China….it seems that China has a massive interest in the islands……
What obliges the US to get involved in this land claim? Will this descend into another NATO conflict that we must supply troops for?
Art. 60 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is unambiguous. China in the wrong over Spratley Islands.
http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf …
‘An aggressive and militarist empire is not in the right just because it happens not to be the USA but another one’
so says…Craig Murray……ex diplomat…to ?
The Guardian – The envoy who said too much: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2004/07/the_guardian_th/ – via:@CraigMurrayOrg
good post…
thanx
Glad you liked it….we Americans have no idea what is going on in the South China Sea…only what media tells us and then it is mostly BS…
I enjoyed your use of the phrase, ‘conflicts that are none of our business’, though it’s inaccurate, in one sense. China and Putin’s Russia have, lately, been showing signs of cooperation, at least in opposing the agenda of the western banking powers…. Oh, right, forgot to mention…. huge market for war there in that area. It’s been neglected since the end of the Vietnam era, at least for large scale wars. So, if China is showing interest in stirring up shit there, you can bet the US and the western banks will be trying to muscle in on the new, possibly lucrative markets.
Follow the money, ffolkes. It’s been our governments sole motivating political factor for a long, long time now…. You can trace every conflict in which we have involved ourselves since WWII, and find that a number of people, a small, but, consistent and significant number, who have made a very large amount of money selling arms and other support materials to both sides of the conflict….
I really would be surprised to see any new areas of conflict that were NOT a burgeoning market for misery and death, and the tools with which we humans can create them so well….
gigoid, the dubious
I wore myself out on that one again; I’ll be back in the morning…
g, td
For the love of money….war cry of capitalism…chuq
The entire American economy is built around sustaining war: anywhere/anytime and for any reason.