US-China Tensions in the S. China Sea: Nukes, Bombers, and Land-to-Air MissilesBy James Holbrooks After deploying from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the bombers flew a formation pass, then dispersed and simultaneously conducted operations in the South China Sea and Northeast Asia, according to the statement. This mission demonstrated the U.S. commitment to support global security and our ability to launch a credible strategic defense force, said Brig. Gen. Douglas Cox. Emphasized in the statement is how the exercise gave USPACOM the chance to work and train with partner nations in the region and that, as USPACOMs area of responsibility covers 52 percent of the globe, such drills are effective at assuring our allies while deterring potential adversaries. The announcement, and the exercise itself, comes at a time of high tension in the region. Last week, U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) deployed three nuclear-capable B-2 bombers one of which flew in Wednesdays historic formation to Andersen Air Force Base in purported response to North Koreas repeatedtest firings of ballistic missiles. North Korea, perhaps not surprisingly, perceived the move as a sign of imminent aggression on the part of the United States. North Korea, in a statement cited by South Korean news agency Yonhap, responded by warning, The right to make a preemptive nuclear strike is not the monopoly of the U.S. and that the country was ready to deal a merciless and annihilating blow to the enemy if they make even the slightest provocation. Meanwhile, pressure is building between China and Japan. Since the beginning of August, Japan has been accusing China of violating its sovereign space by sending hundreds of fishing boats accompanied by armed government vessels across its maritime boundary lines and into Japanese waters. These claims were substantiated when the Japanese Coast Guard released video of the violations on Tuesday. Further ratcheting up the tension is the fact that Japan has begun development of land-to-sea missiles in the name of protecting its space. China, of course who doesnt acknowledge the boundary line and claims territorial rights to those waters took this news as proof that Japan was eyeing a shift to an offensive posture, according to a recent article in Chinas state-run Global Times. And all of this takes place in the context of the larger, ever more potentially destructive collision in the region fierce posturing between superpowers China and the United States. The U.S. which, incidentally, has long been an ally of Japan claims its forces stationed in Southeast Asia are there at the request of partner nations, such as Guam and the Philippines. It was the Philippines, in fact, which brought a suit against China at the U.N. Arbitration Court over the South China Sea dispute. That suit was settled on June 11 in favor of the Philippines, though China has all along stated it has no intention of abiding by that ruling. But China, feeling the heat of the U.S. presence in the region, has been putting on a show of late, demonstrating both its militaristic and technological capabilities such as unveiling the worlds largest amphibious aircraft and releasing footage of rockets that can destroy targets miles above the Earth. And with the Air Forces strategic bomber exercise on Tuesday suggesting that the U.S. seems be of a similarly braggadocious mind, it doesnt appear either side will be backing down any time soon. On July 14, in fact, a former Navy admiral told a congressional hearing the U.S. would be wise to prepare for naval warfare in the South China Sea. Indeed, it appears all thats required now is the spark, and the waters of the East and South China Seas could ignite. And given the geopolitical ties of both China and the United States to other regions of the globe, the potential is there for other nations to feel compelled to get in on the action. This article (US-China Tensions in the S. China Sea: Nukes, Bombers, and Land-to-Air Missiles) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to James Holbrooks andUndergroundReporter.org. If you spot a typo, please email the error and the name of the article toundergroundreporter2016@gmail.com. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons. Rogue groups within the American government and military have proven through their own actions they are only interests is self serving incremental imperialistic takeovers. They have infiltrated other nations with paid mercenaries to cause destabilization for regime change to place their compliant puppets. Endless fear mongering to control the masses. I suspect the new WW3 will be started by the ZioNazi-controlled NA*O-ISra*ls NWO; with the help of Such WW3 is in order to control the global energy security within the much linked-Pacific-Indian Oceans fundamental global fixed maritime routes , especially the globally fundamental small handful of oil and submarine chokepoints of the three Straits of Malacca, Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal (especially along the South China Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea that ultimately links all, to ISrael and the West through the Mediterranean Sea. Hence, also controlling the bordering massively oil/gas/minerals-rich Asia [especially to conquer Malaysia and Sumatera where both Malaysia and Indonesia strategically control major Strait of Malacca route), and the Arab-Iran world and East Africa (that control together the Bab el-Mandeb Strait)- see These 8 narrow chokepoints are critical to the worlds oil trade , Jeremy Bender, Apr. 1, 2015; at , War in Yemen could threaten one of the worlds most important oil chokepoints , Armin Rosen, Mar. 26, 2015; at Great Power Politics in the South China Sea, October 26, 2015, at Why the South China Sea is so crucial, Robert D. Kaplan, Asias Cauldron , Feb 20, 2015; at Japan and China Race to Invest in Africas Natural Resources, By Economy watch Jun 24, 2013; and at Japanese Military Joins U.S. And NATO In Horn Of Africa, April 26, 2010 richard rozoff, Stop NATO, April 25, 2010. Further, thus is why, the ZioNazis are launching terrorist propaganda wars on increasingly independent-minded Muslim Turkey right now to push it out of NATO especially in Austria and Germany! If the US is foolish enough to take on China, in its own near afar, then America will be toast, no matter how many floating coffins ( aircraft carriers) it has! Mark my words, taking on China is not like invading Grenada. It isnt like destroying Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and attempting to do so in Syria. If Russia comes down on the side of China, even with no feet on the ground or planes in the air, the US will be very hard pressed to accomplish whatever geopolitical goal it has for taking on China in the first place ( dont forget Chinas holding of $trillions of US financial paper). So, according to Mr. Mao Tse Obama, on his trip to China he got what he wanted. why cant it just be over? 