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Trouble Ahead

Various reports yesterday (here's the Financial Times)  noted that the U.S. and China ended discussions aimed at solving the problem of confrontation betweem Chinese ships and the U.S. Navy in what China's is evidently aiming to make a 200 mile exclusive maritime zone off its coast. I say evidently as the talks clearly didin't go well. As this graf indicates, the Chinese side is taking its usual extreme bargaining position:

“The way to resolve China-US maritime incidents is for the US to change its surveillance and survey operations policies against China, decrease and eventually stop such operations,” Xinhua, the official news agency, quoted the Ministry of National Defence as saying.

Actually, I am not sure how much this is a bargaining position and how much it really represents a conscious foreign policy decision by Beijing to carve out an exclusion zone into which other navies--and most obviously the U.S. Navy-- may not enter. Policy making in China is a complex and often opaque business. And when it involves the military it becomes particularly tricky. As we've written in the past, the Chinese Admirals have been the ones making the most noise on this issue in the past. the question is, are they driving this policy and how far exactly are they willing to go? It seems highly unlikely Washington would cede on this. apart from anything else, every other country in the world would claim the same exclusion rights, which could be problematical, to put it mildly. A definite danger area in U.S.-China relations.

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    I think this is great that China think US is the one who has the ability to resolve this, and not China. China obviously don't think there is anything China is capable of resolving this problem. Giving the ownership of the problem, and therefore, the initiative to the US, China has show what it is capable of. This is obviously the position China wants to be in.

    And since the US don't see any problem with the current situation, nothing will be done. Everything will remain the same. May be US will even position more long range UAV's in Philippines or even Vietnam. The North Korea situation gives US great reason to position more assets there too.

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    Revisted the definition of Communism.
    I was in the Smithsonian Museum yesterday, saw a quote by J. Edgar Hoover. This is nothing more appropriate than anything we said sofar.

    " Communisim, in reality, is not a political party. It
    is a way of life, it is evil and malignant way of
    life."

    Listen to Gao Ren Gull-up Long has to say:

    ______________________

    Communism, the brainchild of a broke jewish scholar who failed in stock market, couldn't support his own family, sought hide out from creditors in library, yet had affair with his maid behind his wife's back - a mentally vengeful, morally degraded, possibly a reject by the more prosperous, up-standing jewish community. Stirring the have-nots with blaming on the haves behind intellectual gibberish.

    The high moral ground of communism is so pretentious and anti-human, therefore as a political(power) party, CCP clustered mostly opportunists, conmen and hypocrites, with a few simple-minded idealists for window dressing.

    Edgar Hoover is another hypocrite and the all-whiteness of Langley CIA is a give-away of the mental darkness of the man, not so indifferent of the paranoid of hygiene in Singapore..

    Cheers
    GUL - the happy illiterate

    and what he continued to say:

    ___________________

    Karl Marx has to be a reject of his own people being a God-defying jew.

    In the eyes of orthodox jews, this was as sinful as Aron who casted the ox in gold on exodus trip led by Moses.

    It gave Hitler the perfect excuse to start racial cleansing, with silent endorsements from both USA and Vatican, to counter the up-rising communism, which led to jews in general, the holocaust.

    If Hitler is guilty of war crime and holocaust, Karl Marx is hundred times more condemnable for the century long catastrophe behind the shield of communism. 6 million jews are a small fraction to compare with 100 millions+ died for and/or under communism - 80 millions+ in China alone.

    CCP intellectuals should have denounced communism more vehemently than anyone else on earth, illiterate or not, for all the sufferings gone through by Chinese people under the curse of communism.

    Not that they don't have the brain, but not the decency - when was the last time for CCP to demonstrate any ounce of decency or honesty?

    Cheers
    GUL

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