Manila seeks int'l support in standoff with China

papa inggot wrote:

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Im here because I choose to be. Yes Im American. No my country is not perfect but I can give an honest assessment of the U.S. it's the only way to solve problems.(thats true)
Ill go back when your people leave my country. See your people are welcome in my country and welcome to express their freedom of speech anyway they want (been there and there a lot of racist folk). That is something every American is proud of for immigrants.
Not so for us here, even though your a Democracy LOLOL you don't want any foreigners to have freedoms. Your fake hypocrites.(i disagree.)(but on the first half you hav a point)

ofgs wrote:

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where are you?
not sure what you mean here , but i know their are 1000s of very happy flips living in virginia beach, va. thriving and prospering.
some are relations and theyd rather sing god bless america than even discuss the flipins.

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The international community probably would like nothing more than for the Philippines and China to work this out peacefully through negotiations. Giving the Philippines the false impression that its gonna get involved in a shooting war with China over a couple of shoals will back fire terribly. With this in mind, the best way to support the Philippines is too encourage it to be pragmatic and work something out with China.

2 Cents wrote:

The international community probably would like nothing more than for the Philippines and China to work this out peacefully through negotiations. Giving the Philippines the false impression that its gonna get involved in a shooting war with China over a couple of shoals will back fire terribly. With this in mind, the best way to support the Philippines is too encourage it to be pragmatic and work something out with China.

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Don the American wrote:

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Yes your Filipino alright. If you think the truth is destabilizing the country your right. The country lives on lies and illusions. See what happens when journalist tell the truth they kill them.

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DISCLOSURE 2012 wrote:

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White people own all the shipping lanes of the world. Please prove me wrong. Chinese Navy? What a joke.

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DISCLOSURE 2012 wrote:

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Chinese Navy? What a joke.

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Big Tandang wrote:

No big deal, u'r commmie leaders live high on the hog while u'r poor live in polluted land and dring polluted water. Children of u'r commie leaders come to the States for school and drive high priced cars. Want to build weapons instead of fixing problems. Don't know where the people I once worked for set up operations in china, better them than us working with nasty chemicals.

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61 PERCENT OF THE DEBT wrote:

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please there is no refuting the fact China has brought 500 million out of poverty....
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while in the USA you are putting your middle class into poverty...
while your rich get EVEN richer...
he richest 1% hold about 38% of all U.S. wealth.
top 25% own 87% of all U.S. wealth.
your bottom 25% own nothing...with your middle class being put in those ranks...

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Chinaman wrote:

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Yeah right instead of earning 1 $ a day chinamen earn 1.50$ a day nowadays! Wow such progress! I love how commie twist things around!

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kenny kills thumper wrote:

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So i guess you would rather have $1 per day than $1.50 ??

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Chinaman wrote:

<quoted text>. U rather have communism or capitalism? If capitalism then there would be no need for Mao eh? No wonder chinamen are so dumb!

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RayH wrote:

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Let's get the record right, Bill-tard.
Nobody died in TAM Square. About 200 to 300 killed around the city, including many soldiers. And I was there.

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61 PERCENT OF THE DEBT wrote:

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61 PERCENT OF THE DEBT wrote:

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The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
By MATTHEW HICKLEY
Last updated at 00:13 10 November 2007
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.
The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.
One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age.
The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.
The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.
And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.
According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious re-think of American and Nato naval strategy as commanders reconsider the level of threat from potentially hostile Chinese submarines.
It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American diplomats demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the U.S. fleet while Beijing pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair as coincidence.
Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its "backyard".
The People's Liberation Army Navy's submarine fleet includes at least two nuclear-missile launching vessels.
Its 13 Song Class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to detect when running on electric motors.
Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and a former Royal Navy anti-submarine specialist, said the U.S. had paid relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War.
He said: "It was certainly a wake-up call for the Americans.
"It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan."
In January China carried a successful missile test, shooting down a satellite in orbit for the first time.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-49280...