Defense secretary discusses concerns in South China Sea

[inanna]

Source: Associated Press

May. 27, 2016 1:36 PM ET

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says China could be erecting "a great wall of self-isolation" with its increasingly provocative moves against its neighbors.

Carter focused on the Asia-Pacific region Friday in his commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy.

He says America's allies and partners are voicing concerns about China's activity, both publicly and privately, and at the highest levels.

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Carter says the United States is committed to upholding core principles including freedom of navigation and commerce and peaceful resolution of disputes. He says China's actions "challenge fundamental principles, and we can't look the other way."

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[tonyt53]

1. The very reason Obama is making his Asian tour. China has to be surrounded by strong countries.

Vietnam, a rather poor country, is the fifth largest arms buying country now.They are terrified of China claiming their waters. What a difference a couple of decades make.

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. The War-Cult provoking more war for profit.

[stevenleser]

3. Of course. Ignore the fact that Vietnam, Japan, and the Phillippines are all complaining about

Chinese aggression (among many other Southeast Asian countries). It's all the US's fault.

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. The war-profiteers are all of the same dirty cloth.

[stevenleser]

6. Keep telling yourself that. Ignore that reality is conflicting with your ideology. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. There is no resolution to those with a war-profit-mind. They do not function in mental ration,

reason or reality. Creating constant conflict is their only way of being in this world. Ingonring these realities is what is poisoning this earth and the minds of humanity.

[Jopin Klobe]

4. "self-isolation", hunh ...

... we owe them how many hundreds of millions/trillions of dollars? ...

... there are how many world-wide corporations with manufacturing and supply contracts with the Communist Chinese? ...

... isolation in the American media propaganda machine, certainly, but the Communist Chinese are still getting profits from their loans and sales - the money for the loans that George W. Whatshisname made to cut the rich American oligarchs' taxes - TWICE ... oh, and the <i>actual taxpayers</i> pay that interest on those loans for the money to the rich ...

... what country of their size would be afraid of a country that is quickly making itself the laughingstock of the political world ...

... they're just looking at us as low hanging fruit ...