MANILA: China to Philippines: Quit Scarborough Shoal

UPDATE ON US SUPPORT:

SINGAPORE (Reuters)- The United States will shift a majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Saturday, giving the first details of a new U.S. military strategy.

Fleshing out details of a strategic pivot to Asia announced in January, Panetta said the United States would reposition its Navy fleet so 60 percent of its battleships would be assigned there, up from about 50 percent now, while maintaining six aircraft carriers in the region.

The U.S. defense secretary, speaking at an annual security forum in Singapore, also sought to dispel the notion that the shift, after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, was designed to contain China's emergence as a global power.

He acknowledged differences between the world's two largest economies on a range of issues, including the South China Sea.

"We're not naive about the relationship and neither is China," Panetta told the Shangri-La Dialogue attended by senior civilian and military leaders from about 30 Asia-Pacific nations.

"We also both understand that there really is no other alternative but for both of us to engage and to improve our communications and to improve our (military-to-military) relationships," he said.

"That's the kind of mature relationship that we ultimately have to have with China."

Some Chinese officials have been critical of the U.S. shift of military emphasis to Asia, seeing it as an attempt to fence in the country and frustrate Beijing's territorial claims.

China has downgraded its representation to the Shangri-La Dialogue from last year, when Defence Minister Liang Guanglie attended and met then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. This year the Chinese military was represented by the vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences.

Panetta, by contrast, was accompanied by General Martin Dempsey, the military's top officer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Samuel Locklear, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command.

The U.S. Defense Secretary was at the start of a seven-day visit to the region to explain to allies and partners the practical meaning of the U.S. military strategy unveiled in January that calls for rebalancing American forces to focus on the Pacific.

The trip, which includes stops in Vietnam and India, comes at a time of renewed tensions over competing sovereignty claims in the South China Sea, with the Philippines, a major U.S. ally, and China in a standoff over the Scarborough Shoal near the Philippine coast.

FLASHPOINT

Panetta met Philippines Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin on the sidelines of the conference and discussed areas of future cooperation, including maritime awareness and cyberspace, and called for peaceful resolution of the South China Sea dispute.

The South China Sea is a flashpoint but, with about 90 percent of global trade moving by sea, protecting the teeming shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Malacca is equally vital.

"Maritime freedoms cannot be the exclusive prerogative of a few," Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony told the forum. "We must find the balance between the rights of nations and the freedoms of the world community."

Overlapping maritime claims - often fuelled by hunger for oil, gas, fish and other resources - are compounded by threats from pirates and militants, delegates said.

Under the plans Panetta announced on Saturday, the Navy would maintain six aircraft carriers assigned to the Pacific. Six of its 11 carriers are now assigned to the Pacific but that will fall to five when the USS Enterprise retires this year.

The number will return to six when the new carrier USS Gerald R. Ford is completed in 2015.

Wow. SIX aircraft carriers to be assigned in Asia.:)

So that's why China is scared. haha xD

Cev wrote:

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Weh? O_O
I thought you have stealth plane, space station, icbm missiles, stealth subs, etc...
Now you tell me China is primitive?
There are only 2 things primitive in Mainland chinese people: primitive brain and primitive half inch penises.

hhha another stupid guy ,

Cev wrote:

Wow. SIX aircraft carriers to be assigned in Asia.:)
So that's why China is scared. haha xD

china is scared !!!!!sb

lee from china wrote:

<quoted text>china is scared !!!!!sb

Yep! China is scared. No need to repeat after me. I know you're scared too.:)

Cev wrote:

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Weh? O_O
I thought you have stealth plane, space station, icbm missiles, stealth subs, etc...
Now you tell me China is primitive?
There are only 2 things primitive in Mainland chinese people: primitive brain and primitive half inch penises.

1..hahahaha, you are too stupid to believe that china has those stealth, missiles, subs,..those are all fake...but because you are stupid, you believe it and are scare of. hahahaha.

Drunken Scotsman wrote:

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He's a ladyboy.

1..are you saying that you also chop off(like hihi and cev) and becomes ladyboy.???

hihi_pnis_chimp wrote:

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1..are you saying that you also chop off(like hihi and cev) and becomes ladyboy.???

Nope, just you, buttercup.

Cev wrote:

Wow. SIX aircraft carriers to be assigned in Asia.:)
So that's why China is scared. haha xD

sounds more like USA is scared of China to put SIX aircraft carriers in Asia...

nice try to spin it...

only Brown Indios...

Drunken Scotsman wrote:

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Nope, just you, buttercup.

^ white sex tourist coming to the aid of his brown Indio bargirl wife

lee from china wrote:

<quoted text>hhha another stupid guy ,

want to know what Indios are stupid????

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Based on the current education system of the Philippines, students should enter elementary schools at the age of 6 or 7, and for a duration of 6 years. Then, at the age of 12 or 13, students then enter high schools for a duration 4 years, with a total of 10 years of compulsory education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the...

Drunken Scotsman wrote:

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Nope, just you, buttercup.

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1.yes, you are

2.stupid hihi, don't show up, i don't want to hear chimpansee noise. get lost in L.A. afternoon..w/ your artificial.

Chinese American youth had significantly higher math scores than Pacific Islanders, South Asians, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, and Other Asians, and also higher grade-point averages than the latter three groups, even after accounting for socio-economic and immigrant status, and language fluency.

Based on course grades in both math and English for middle and high school students, Fuligni (1997), and Fuligni and Witkow (2004) reported higher grades for East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) in both subjects than Filipinos. Thus, taken together with the NELS findings described above, it appears that Chinese in particular have the highest, and Filipinos perhaps the lowest, grades and test scores than other ethnic groups.

In a study that included two generations of Chinese immigrants, Chao (2001) reported that both first- and second- generation Chinese students received significantly higher grades and reported higher level of school effort than White students.

In addition, first-generation Chinese students received significantly higher grades than second-generation Chinese students, but both generations were similar in their school effort.
High School and Beyond Study & Additional Studies on Drop Outs

The High School and Beyond data, developed by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides base-year information on approximately 28,000 students who were high school seniors in 1980. Approximately 12,000 students were followed up in 1982, 1984, and 1986. The base-year information includes demographic and other background information, college experiences, work history, and high school grades and ability tests prepared for this data collection. Based on this data, Kao and Thompson (2003) report that Asian Americans had the lowest percentage of drop outs (14%) than other groups (17% of whites, 29% of Native Americans, 28% of Mexican Americans, and 26% of Puerto Ricans). Additional studies, not based on the High School and Beyond data, find that dropouts were less likely to be Asian American than Latino, African American, or White (The National Center for Education Statistics, 1998; Rumberger et al., 1990).
Additional School Performance Outcomes: Types of Courses
Also, Kao and Thompson (2003) report, based on the National Center for Education Statistics of 1997, that a greater proportion of Asian American high school seniors (51%) were more likely to be in college preparatory courses than other ethnic groups (46% of whites, 36% of blacks, 31% of Latinos, and 23% of Native Americans).
Fuligni (1997) also reports that a greater proportion of East Asians (40%) were more likely to take advanced math classes (e.g. Algebra 2) in the tenth grade than Filipinos (20%), Caucasian Americans (20%), and Latinos (7%), and that a vast majority of East Asians (over 80%) were also likely to be in college placement English compared to 58%, 48%, and 24% of Filipinos, Caucasians, and Latinos, respectively.

btw americans aint much better off..

their average reading level is about grade 8 level...

and the poorest of the poor rice farmers kid in China scores just as well as the average american kid...

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Sunday, December 18, 2011

PISA: What about the rest of China?

The news that two states in India took the PISA test of 15-year-olds' school achievement in 2009 and bombed raises the question once again of China. As everybody remembers from a year ago, 2009 scores from Shanghai were released and they were higher than any country in the world. But what about the rest of China? Obviously, Shanghai is a dazzling place, but a lot of China is still stuck knee-deep in rice paddies. What about them?

I stumbled upon this year-old blog post by Anatoly Karlin of Sublime Oblivion, which relays a big hint:
As regular blog readers know, I think that educational capital and more broadly average IQ levels are one of the key – and frequently under-appreciated due to political correctness – determinants of economic development and whether or not convergence to developed country levels is even possible. Its much higher educational capital is one of the key reasons why I think China will continue doing much better than India in development, regardless of its “democratic deficit.” However, many people argue that China’s human capital must actually be quite low, because it doesn’t spend much on education, resources are bare in the provinces, statistical fudging under unaccountable governors, etc.
The recent results from the international standardized PISA tests in math, reading and science will make this an increasingly untenable position. Shanghai got by far the best results out of all the OECD countries (never mind the developing ones).. Now while you might (rightly) argue Shanghai draws much of the elite of the Yangtze river delta, the Financial Times has more:“Citing further, as-yet unpublished OECD research, Mr Schleicher said:“We have actually done Pisa in 12 of the provinces in China. Even in some of the very poor areas you get performance close to the OECD average.””
Since countries like the US and France get scores “close to the OECD average”, this means that the workforces soon to be entering China’s economy, even from its poorest regions, will be no less skilled than those of leading Western economies (note too that the numbers of Chinese university graduates are soaring). And with China’s massive population, four times bigger than America’s, its road to superpowerdom must be all but guaranteed.

Okay, there are a few leaps of faith there, but that's still news worth knowing. At minimum, it reduces the chances that the Shanghai numbers were a con job. At median, it suggests that we check twice before reflexively equating China and India. At maximum, it suggests, as Karlin says, that "resource constraints" are going to be perhaps the big issue of the 21st Century. It's a little hard to be certain what "Even in some of the very poor areas you get performance close to the OECD average" means, but it sounds pretty good.

The logic of using international test scores to predict future wealth is not that the causation runs only in one direction, from high test scores to wealth. Obviously, it runs in both directions.(For example, affluent Chinese have traditionally hired tutors to raise their children's test results.) But, if there are a whole bunch of poor farm kids in inland China who are scoring like kids in Europe and North America right now, well, that's worth knowing.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/12/pisa-what-...

BEGGARS WITH a LOUDMOUTH wrote:

Chinese American youth had significantly higher math scores than Pacific Islanders, South Asians, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, and Other Asians, and also higher grade-point averages than the latter three groups, even after accounting for socio-economic and immigrant status, and language fluency.
Based on course grades in both math and English for middle and high school students, Fuligni (1997), and Fuligni and Witkow (2004) reported higher grades for East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans) in both subjects than Filipinos. Thus, taken together with the NELS findings described above, it appears that Chinese in particular have the highest, and Filipinos perhaps the lowest, grades and test scores than other ethnic groups.
In a study that included two generations of Chinese immigrants, Chao (2001) reported that both first- and second- generation Chinese students received significantly higher grades and reported higher level of school effort than White students.
In addition, first-generation Chinese students received significantly higher grades than second-generation Chinese students, but both generations were similar in their school effort.
High School and Beyond Study & Additional Studies on Drop Outs
The High School and Beyond data, developed by The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provides base-year information on approximately 28,000 students who were high school seniors in 1980. Approximately 12,000 students were followed up in 1982, 1984, and 1986. The base-year information includes demographic and other background information, college experiences, work history, and high school grades and ability tests prepared for this data collection. Based on this data, Kao and Thompson (2003) report that Asian Americans had the lowest percentage of drop outs (14%) than other groups (17% of whites, 29% of Native Americans, 28% of Mexican Americans, and 26% of Puerto Ricans). Additional studies, not based on the High School and Beyond data, find that dropouts were less likely to be Asian American than Latino, African American, or White (The National Center for Education Statistics, 1998; Rumberger et al., 1990).
Additional School Performance Outcomes: Types of Courses
Also, Kao and Thompson (2003) report, based on the National Center for Education Statistics of 1997, that a greater proportion of Asian American high school seniors (51%) were more likely to be in college preparatory courses than other ethnic groups (46% of whites, 36% of blacks, 31% of Latinos, and 23% of Native Americans).
Fuligni (1997) also reports that a greater proportion of East Asians (40%) were more likely to take advanced math classes (e.g. Algebra 2) in the tenth grade than Filipinos (20%), Caucasian Americans (20%), and Latinos (7%), and that a vast majority of East Asians (over 80%) were also likely to be in college placement English compared to 58%, 48%, and 24% of Filipinos, Caucasians, and Latinos, respectively.

I've had Chinese classmates who took 5 minutes to read 3 sentences.

yeah right did you forget about primula trying to get education outside of china? did you forget about moron bragging about his great education? what about all you guys displaying your amazing intelligence here? yep nobody can beat you in terms of intelligence lol!

BEGGARS WITH a LOUDMOUTH wrote:

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^ white sex tourist coming to the aid of his brown Indio bargirl wife

You can ran your mouth all you want, it doesn't change the fact that you're an idiot, 61 percent, beggars, mosquitos, whatever name you monkeys come up with, you'll always be a piece of trash. Sex tourist? Perhaps, but I prefer pinays to chinks, these chicks are clean you know, they wipe their @ss. Lolololol

aaa wrote:

yeah right did you forget about primula trying to get education outside of china? did you forget about moron bragging about his great education? what about all you guys displaying your amazing intelligence here? yep nobody can beat you in terms of intelligence lol!

True, I heard Pinoys are really good in english, even koreans come here to study. Its easy for me to get around most of you titty bars lol.

BEGGARS WITH a LOUDMOUTH wrote:

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sounds more like USA is scared of China to put SIX aircraft carriers in Asia...
nice try to spin it...
only Brown Indios...

You are a chinaman living in the States. Why do you leave your mighty china? Just wondering..... You people are almost a fifth of the world's population and everywhere in this whole wide world, you can find a chinaman. You're saying that a chinaman is better than any other student in your adopted country. Is that so? Have you taken into consideration the Jews? The Germans? And how about the Japs whom your mighty china envied and hated so much? How about the facts? Have you taken into consideration the formulae used as to how they arrived at your stats? No race is supreme. Ask the Germans. But if you chinamen believe that you are supreme, than you are no different from the aryan race Hitler have envisioned. With the kind of friends you have (North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya and Al Quaeda), no wonder many countries already sees you as an icon of evil, the next world villain.

BEGGARS WITH a LOUDMOUTH wrote:

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sounds more like USA is scared of China to put SIX aircraft carriers in Asia...
nice try to spin it...
only Brown Indios...

With your logic, then China is scared of the Philippines to put 5 military ships in Scarborough.

Nice try to spin it but no points again Fargo.

Only yellow chink prostitutes.