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EX500rider

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3. The bully here would be China...

Reply to Ford_Prefect (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 5, 2021, 01:49 PM

Feb 2021

....dredging up small islands then claiming it as part of their territory. The US is just standing up for everyone's right for free passage in international waters.

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U.S. warship sails near Chinese-controlled S.China Sea islands [View all] TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP

Be careful with those Sabers, boys. They've been known to go off occasionally when they get rattled. Ford_Prefect Feb 2021 #1

The bully here would be China... EX500rider Feb 2021 #3

+1. They literally created artificial islands to justify their bullshit territorial claims dalton99a Feb 2021 #4

Yes they are garbage. They've ignored this area since at least 1947 if not longer. Ford_Prefect Feb 2021 #5

It is just plain theft ripcord Feb 2021 #6

Yes. One theory proposed is that China intends to exert influence on Vietnam Ford_Prefect Feb 2021 #8

Yup, China... jayfish Feb 2021 #7

You are perhaps proposing to release the Kraken on those miserable pirates? Ford_Prefect Feb 2021 #9

International waters are open to everyone ripcord Feb 2021 #2

Building a military base on top of a coral reef hundreds of miles from China to threaten other Nitram Feb 2021 #10