<<downright scary>>
... why do you think so?
IMO,
(1) the south china sea certainly features a lot of islands, atolls, reefs, and features that appear and disappear depending on a host of affects, natural and a-natural and artificial
(1-i) the islands, natural and progressively enhanced, are claimed, occupied, enhanced, and gradually a-civilianized by many actors, all having done what every other did in enhancing islands and a-civilianizing same
notably china is most-late-joiner to the game of building islands
(note: unclear to me why "china's naval expansion raising tension w/ the u.s." for either (i) the u.s. is welcome to expand right along by quintupling, or (ii) shrink what is too big by 80%, as china is merely returning to where the state left off circa 1421 time of admiral zheng he when his sponsoring son of heaven led 35% of global gdp)
(1-ii) neither the islands nor the conflicting claims are going anywhere anytime soon if ever
(1-iii) the islands do not have natural populations but do involve migrated folks, many of whom are girls w/ modicum of doubtless talents
(1-iv) the islands' waters are patrolled by civilian coast guards of several domains
(1-v) as and whenever any party w/i and from outside of the region chooses to inject military naval aviation into the otherwise tranquil-enough neighbourhoods as compared to many neighbourhoods, am sure all nations would execute same injections into the neighbourhood
(1-vi) and when once so, am sure it then comes down to positional chess play, overarching principles, and layering of many considerations, amongst which would undoubtedly be ...
(1-vii) the conflicting claims had been in place for a long time, and shall remain until peaceful resolution or until any state decides it can no longer engage in the gaming as scripted before best-use-by date passes for its wherewithal
My guidance to all players,
(2) build bulk that can matter
(2-i) develop economy
(2-ii) progress geopolitical and economic weights
(2-iii) develop full-spectrum military capabilities, ideally high-ground dominating (these days mean space-dominating integrated planetary defence), involving 1-hr hypersonic global precision nuclear as well as conventional strike capability and capacity, in volume, at low cost, ...
(2-iv) offer co-development of whatever economic activities the conflict region can support w/ neighbours w/ conflicting claims, and circumvent the intransigent regimes by offering same opportunities to their democratic oppositions in every election
(2-v) advise against any protocol that seem to complicate but is otherwise foolishly ineffectual to move any meaningful dial as such actions would merely highlight impotence of the actor on the equation for all to see and would have only a lamenting giggle factor
(2-vi) am sure the conflicting claims shall resolve as motives waver, confidences hesitate, economies hiccup, and competing claims inevitably dissolve with the gentle passage of inexorable time
of all the possible issues in the world, a few insignificant islands cannot matter to anyone w/o any points, and the points shall trend toward pointlessness
but of course there is a key point, that being defence budgets and budget cuts and allocation of defence budget cuts. we leave that point to increasingly stressed and stressing needs to balance budgets
Some pics
i suppose if one were small-minded one could engineer a relocation of a certain fujian province family temple to any one of the many islands or to irrevocably disperse the temple to many islands to make some point, but i doubt such would happen as the conflict is for big-minded people given that the small minds shall undoubted drop away philstar.com
"... FUJIAN PROVINCE, China – It was a happy homecoming for President Aquino as he arrived in Hongjian village here yesterday to pay tribute to his maternal ancestors and follow in the footsteps of his late mother, former President Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco-Aquino ..."
girls girls girls, seashore, gardens, and more girls
girls and guns, would make a good magazine cover
Re <<freedom noodles>>
Had it not been the insignificant islands of south china sea, it would have been some other equally insignificant issue(s) to tee-up the inevitable freedom noodles protocol, as we cannot expect anything more or less, surely
the electorates are about to choose their next leader from amongst carson, trump and clinton. they shall do their very best in choosing, and live with the best choice for the 2017 - 2020 duration, and w/ luck for either the electorates or the chosen, maybe even for 2017 - 2024.
i of course expect much resolutions during 2017 - 2024 and during the overlapping 2018 - 2026, as i had stated enough times on this si thread
exciting period ahead, 2016 - 2026
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