Former Admiral Urges America to Prepare for Imminent Naval Battle with ChinaBy James Holbrooks I think we need to have some specific lines and then encourage China to compromise on some of its objectives, Blair, who headed the U.S. Pacific Command while in the Navy, said at the hearing. The admirals recommendation came the day after a United Nations tribunal invalidated Chinas claim of territorial rights to nearly all of the waters in the South China Sea. Other nations in the region including the Philippines, who brought the action against China in 2013 also claim sovereignty in that zone. The U.S., citing the territorial dispute and security concerns raised by its allies in the region, have for months beensending warships into the South China Sea as a check against Chinese hostility. Beijing, acutely aware of the military buildup off its coast, has publiclywarned the U.S. its more than ready to defend against provocations. China hopes disputes can be resolved by talks, an editorial in one of the countrys state-run newspapers said last week, but it must be prepared for any military confrontation. This is common sense in international relations. Hanging above the whole affair is the fact that China, long before Tuesdays ruling, had repeatedly stated it has no intention of abiding by the U.N.s decision. And within hours after the tribunals verdict, China doubled down on that stance by raising the possibility that it would erect an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea. If our security is being threatened, of course we have the right to demarcate a zone, Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenminsaid Wednesday at a briefing in Beijing. We hope that other countries will not take this opportunity to threaten China and work with China to protect the peace and stability of the South China Sea, and not let it become the origin of a war. And war, it appears, is becoming increasingly likely by the day with other countries in Southeast Asia beginning to take sides. On Wednesday, Taiwan whom Beijing considers to be territorially a part of China sent a naval frigate to patrol the contested waters. The countrys claims of sovereignty in the region run parallel to Chinas, and as such have similarly rejected the U.N.s ruling. The deployment of the warship had been scheduled for Thursday, but was moved up a day after the tribunal handed down its verdict a clear signal of a growing solidarity with China. The mission of this voyage is to display Taiwan peoples resolve in defending the national interest, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen said in a speech before the launching of the frigate. On the other side of the equation, the Philippines who since Tuesdays ruling has been urging China to adhere to the U.N.s proclamation has for years been strengthening its military alliance with the United States. In July of 2013, for instance, it was reported that the U.S. military was negotiating an agreement to increase the American presence in the Philippines. For its part, the media made no attempt at obfuscation. From the New York Times: The negotiations for increased military access come amid simmering tensions between the Philippines and China over areas in the South China Sea claimed by both countries and moves by the United States to ensure it retains influence in the region even as Chinas grow. That agreement was cemented in March of 2014. By April of the following year, 6,000 troops had been deployed to the Philippines to participate in military exercises. In November, President Obama himself traveled to the country to negotiate the terms of further cooperation. Then, last April weeks after the announcement of the specific Filipino military bases where American personnel would be stationed U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter reiterated that deepening collaboration. There will be a regular, periodic presence here of American forces, he stated at a news briefing in Manila. The things that were doing here are part of a pattern that goes back decades. Theyre at the invitation of an alliance partner. So, with the U.S. demanding compromise from a China who refuses to bow down and forcing local powers to choose sides in the process it seems the stage is being set for a potential military conflict in the South China Sea that could engulf the entire region. This article (Former Admiral Urges America to Prepare for Imminent Naval Battle with China) 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 Blair? Dodgy surname, especially in the context of calls for war. Cant wait to dive on the artificial reefs DUHmerican ships will make! read some of your post at other sites and are you a sorry case for a human being , have you thought of suicide to end your pain ? When your warmongering terrorist cesspool is finally a smoldering nuclear ash my pain will end. Thanks for asking. Have a great DUHmerican day. DOLT How DARE anyone speak of DUHmerica in the same way DUHmericans speak of the rest of the world!!!! Oh the humanity! Sounds like you have. The general must be be heavily invested in the war games and loves it when we spend $600 for a hammer and $3,000 for a toilet. He laughs all the way to the bank. Hey, did you hear? The Pentagon just spent 417 MILLION Dollars to train 100 Syrian freedom fighters. The general laughs at us again! The military industrial complex is not just an American phenomenon. Russia has made a killing off Billions in new weapons contracts showcased in its ~$400M expenditure in Syria, as well as negotiating a large multi-billion dollar contract with Saudi Arabia to build a high tech aerospace defense system. .Reminiscent of the themes in The Report From Iron Mountain regarding TPTBs goals to flush massive amounts of resources down the drain through wars and waste to keep the serfs disempowered. Chinas famous ghost cities and their practice of demolishing large brand new buildings is another example. Time for people to wake up, look past the endless smoke and BS jingoism = theater of the absurd. This is a version of an an original page atributed to Robert Elias, a US Professor of Political Science , a list which, like so many others, has otherwise disappered US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY GLOBAL TERRORISM US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war Japan (1945) US Use of Chemical Biological Weapons Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s) And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950) And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the Egypt US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 China (1945-51) France (1947) Marshall Islands (1946-58) Italy (1947-1975) Greece (1947-49) Philippines (1945-53) Korea (1945-53) Albania (1949-53) Eastern Europe (1948-56) Germany (1950s) Iran (1953) Guatemala (1953-1990s) Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71) Middle East (1956-58) Indonesia (1957-58) Haiti (1959) Western Europe (1950s-1960s) Guyana (1953-64) Iraq (1958-63) Vietnam (1945-53) Cambodia (1955-73) Laos (1957-73) Thailand (1965-73) Ecuador (1960-63) Congo (1960-65, 1977-78) Algeria (1960s) Brazil (1961-64) Peru (1965) Dominican Republic (1963-65) Cuba (1959-present) Indonesia (1965) Ghana (1966) Uruguay (1969-72) Chile (1964-73) Greece (1967-74) US Perversions of Foreign Elections Philippines (1950s) US Versus World at the United Nations US Is the Sole No Vote on Resolutions or Treaties US Is 1 of Only 2 No Votes on Resolutions or Treaties US Is 1 of Only 3 No Votes on Resolutions and Treaties In addition, the US has: Sampling of Deaths From US Military Interventions Propping Up Corrupt Brazil Korea Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Argentina Bolivia Uruguay Ecuador Peru Iraq Iran Sudan Colombia Panama Japan Afghanistan Somalia Philippines Haiti Dominican Republic Libya Macedonia South Africa Pakistan Palestine Indonesia East Timor Greece Laos Cambodia Angola Grenada Congo Egypt Vietnam Chile Other Lethal US Interventions Specific Torture Campaigns Supporting and Harboring Terrorists . Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, . Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo . Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas . Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, Assassinating World Leaders Arms Trade US Military Presence . The US is the worlds largest provider of live land mines which, even in . The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which . The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 Thanks I have copy/pasted it and saved it. A lot of info there. Pivot to Asia ? the USA will lose all support in the region of the people, that is. I get the feeling that if China must respond to US aggression it will sink the whole fleet. To attack just one ship or plane is to invite retaliation, while to sink everything in the theater delays retaliation and hopefully convinces Washington to de-escalate, by convincing them theyll all die in the ensuing war. Make it clear to them, its not just ships and planes and soldiers wholl be attacked but the warmonger elite this time. Yes, and China does have a hyper-sonic ship killer in its arsenal that could drop a large fleet onto the ocean floor in one hour. Unfortunately that would give the psycho-freaks the excuse to mobilize the entire USA population for the 3 rd and final Phase in their war to gain full control on humanity. China knows this is just another bluff from the hubris inflated warmongers. Its a page from Orwells 1984, faux superstate rivalry to continue to distracting the worlds serfs from perceiving the top of the pyramid puppeteering the oligarchs of every nation state, including Russia and China, who are already in the tight grip of the Banksters and the UN Agendas. Seems like the Philippines will become the new Okinawa. And please dont forget which nation it was, that started the whole messy ball of wax rolling in the South China Sea! Japan! One of Americas allies, perfectly poised to provoke China by purchasing the surface rights to the contested Sendakus. That set China off. It has on numerous occasions declared sovereignty over these island, but did nothing overt with respect to challenging Japans own declaration of sovereignty, until Japan foolishly made their physical challenge. Now it has become the centrepiece of a potential war, that the US is just slavering for. Wherever there is a possibility of violent confrontation, the US will be there front and centre bristling with military armaments! Go China sink the lot. Better still, hold tight until the USA suffers complete economic collapse. By what possible stretch of the imagination is the S China Sea any security interest of the US? Let the Asians work out their problems. 