Things are heating up in the South China Sea

[ripcord]

I guess the Philippines are tired of China's 9 Dash Line bullshit and are going to start extracting energy from their areas of rhe South China Sea regardless of what China says.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/world/1203225/south-china-sea-crisis-beijing-defied-philippines-xi-jinping-rodrigo-duterte-spt/amp

The thing for us to remember is that we have a mutual defense treaty with the Philippines.

[Igel]

1. Here's a phrase you seldom hear.

"Eastern imperialism."

[roamer65]

2. The Chinese will remove them from the area.

We won’t honor the mutual defense treaty.

[ripcord]

3. Are you kidding?

Trump would love the distraction right now, especially since he would be firm legal ground with the ruling against China.

[roamer65]

4. The Chinese will threaten to make a move on Taiwan.

Then Dump will back down after Pootie threatens to release kompromat.

The Sino-Russian alliance has Dump by the gonads.

[CanonRay]

5. Until Trump says we don't.

He doesn't like brown people, remember