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Global Times tabloid daily newspaper said the United States under a Potus Donald Trump would need to "wage a large scale war" against China if Trump wanted to try to prevent China taking control of existing or artificial islands it is constructing across the South China Sea.
The lunatic editorial said Washington would need to "bone up" on its nuclear strategies if it acted militarily with its armed forces against the CCP Dictator-Tyrants in the South China Sea.
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Chinese tabloid says U.S. needs to 'wage war' to block off South China Sea islands
Reuters - Jan 11, 2017
Blocking Chinese access to islands in the South China Sea would require the U.S. to "wage war", an influential Chinese state-run tabloid said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson suggested the strategy on Wednesday.
Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he wanted to send a signal to China that their access to islands in the disputed South China Sea "is not going to be allowed". He did not elaborate.
The United States would have to "wage a large-scale war" in the South China sea to prevent Chinese access to the islands, the Global Times said in an English language editorial. The paper, which is known for writing strongly-worded, hawkish and nationalist editorials, is published by the ruling Communist Party's flagship paper. It does not reflect Chinese policy.
"Tillerson had better bone up on nuclear power strategies if he wants to force a big nuclear power to withdraw from its own territories," the paper added.
Chinese tabloid says U.S. needs to 'wage war' to block off South China Sea islands | Reuters
While the word "blockade" has begun to appear in some global media and in the responses by military and diplomatic officials, others have said Tillerson may have misspoke when he said to "deny access" to the islands CCP Dictator-Tyrants have built on shallow reefs. In other instances, CCP have seized by force some existing islands in the EEZ areas of other nations that border the sea, such as Vietnam and the Philippines. (Exclusive Economic Zone)
By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) --
Donald Trump's pick to lead the State Department has stoked confusion over the U.S.'s South China Sea policy by appearing to advocate a blockade of Chinese man-made islands.
A person familiar with deliberations inside the Trump transition team was aware of no such planning, raising the likelihood that Rex Tillerson misspoke Wednesday at his Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state. The individual was not authorized to speak on the record and demanded anonymity.
An opinion piece in the state-run China Daily strongly criticized the former Exxon Mobil CEO, accusing him of "undisguised animosity toward China...As many have observed, it would set a course for devastating confrontation between China and the U.S.," said the piece in the newspaper's U.S. edition.
At his confirmation hearing for defense secretary on Thursday, retired Gen. James Mattis said China's militarization of the South China Sea posed a threat to global order.
But Mattis was less combative than Tillerson. Asked about the oil man's comments, Mattis said the U.S. needed an integrated government approach to avoid an incomplete or incoherent strategy. He emphasized the importance of freedom of commerce and nurturing U.S. alliances in the region.
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Looks already like the Trump Train needs to get all its cars hooked up together as one lest the bunch of 'em become sprawled and spaced out along the tracks. Potus-Elect Trump needs to say something here and now that is clarifying, although most of what Trump says only confuses himself too. Tillerson looks to be equally befuddled and befuddling.
I myself have believed for a long time a US naval and air blockade of the Mainland CCP China from the South China Sea is an excellent idea. A blockade is in fact the only way to stop 'em.
