Here's what China thinks of post-America's role as guarantor of the world's recognized international sea lanes:
The head of the Chinese navy told U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson July 26 China will “never stop” construction of illegal man-made islands in the South China Sea.
China’s
hardline position comes just two weeks after an international tribunal rejected all of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. China has
pledged to ignore the ruling and has since announced it will commence war drills and combat air patrols in the disputed waters. Richardson’s visit was meant to begin bilateral naval talks between the two countries, but positions have not changed.
Chinese naval officials
told Chinese media, the South China Sea is “China’s inherent territory,” and that its construction of man-made islands is “reasonable, justified and lawful.” Richardson pressed back that the U.S. will continue to sail through the South China Sea as it always has, and will not recognize China’s territorial claims. China
responded, “Any attempt to force China to give in through flexing military muscles will only have the opposite effect.”
So, according to China, post-America should lay off:
China’s navy also warned Richardson that the U.S. should not continue to conduct naval exercises near its islands and respect China’s territorial claims. The U.S. exercised its right to freedom of navigation and sailed the USS Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, near an important artificial Chinese island in October, 2015, protesting China’s actions in the South China Sea. China was so incensed it summoned the U.S. ambassador and told him the move was “extremely irresponsible.”
Again, we can objectively call the Most Equal Comrade's (and Hillionaire's and Global Test's) foreign policy a failure, but according to their own standards, by which post-America has needed to be knocked down a peg on the world stage, it's a great success.
Another misperception that led right to your detested Squirrel Hair who has just now spewed out an invitation to foreign hackers to have at it with Hillie's emails. His mutt Pence has to run interference for the first time, 3 months before the election, reminding aspiring hackers there are law and penalties on the books for doing so. I know, I know, you'll probably say Hillie and hence us deserves it, right? A Trumpster friend thought this was hilarious. It's sure gonna be a sick 21st century reality show with great ratings coming up.
ReplyDeleteCan you give me any quotes from the planned decliners that state their intention to knock your America down a peg on the world stage? I might have to call you spiritually grotesque for being a lying sack of shit.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5104350/Republicans-slam-Barack-Obama-over-American-arrogance-speech.html
ReplyDeleteIn a speech in France, a country that has been a bastion of anti-US sentiment in recent years, the President said: "In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
http://freebeacon.com/politics/five-times-obama-has-apologized-for-america/
“Another issue that confronts all democracies as they move to the future is how we deal with the past. The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”
- The MEC to the Turkish parliament, April 2009
“While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms.”
- MEC at 2009 Summit of the Americas
“Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes. That’s how we learn.”
- at CIA HQ 4/09
“Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. … I also believe that all too often our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight; that all too often our government trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions. Instead of strategically applying our power and our principles, too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford. And during this season of fear, too many of us — Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens — fell silent. In other words, we went off course.”
- MEC at National Archives 5/09
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/05/obamas-insulting-version-of-american-exceptionalism.php
What makes us exceptional is not flouting international norms and the rule of law; it’s our willingness to affirm them through our actions.
- MEC's commencement address at West Point, 2014
Didn't you sometimes wish your dad would have admitted some of his faults before or while he insisted that you clean up your act or else?
ReplyDeleteSure, but what the fuck does that have to do with the subject at hand?
ReplyDeleteOkay, that could be seen as flip. Here's the difference: the MEC was elected to the most powerful position in the world. It carries with it grave, grave responsibilities. You cannot project a position of seeing you regard the moral position of the country you preside over as basically morally flawed when you are US president. Some very, very bad actors will pick up on that cue. The scent of vulnerability will fill their nostrils.
ReplyDeleteWhen you talk all around the past and try to come off as the big boy on the block who's never done nothin' wrong, they talk behind your back and don't believe a phony word you say.
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