Big stick time again.... can they not relax...

[superkartracer]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and...

[lenandsons]

Can someone please stop the world, I want to get off. Why is it that hardly a day goes by without there being conflict or threats somewhere if it aint the middle east, then its Asia and don't even get me started on Africa.

[fadeaway]

superkartracer said:

... can they not relax...

I don't think that now's a good time to let the chinessee think that they can push people around and do what they like in internally waters!

It's all just posturing anyway.

[911motorsport]

fadeaway said:

superkartracer said:

... can they not relax...

I don't think that now's a good time to let the chinessee think that they can push people around and do what they like in internally waters!

It's all just posturing anyway.

[rhinochopig]

Why does the media keep referring to him as Mr Obama when it was always President Bush (or tt)?

[gingerpaul]

"A potential conflict was brewing last night in the South China Sea after President Obama dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of a naval standoff between the US and China at the weekend."

Quick, someone call Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh!

There's your problem:

Edited by gingerpaul on Friday 13th March 12:36

[davido140]

gingerpaul said:

"A potential conflict was brewing last night in the South China Sea after President Obama dispatched heavily armed American destroyers to the scene of a naval standoff between the US and China at the weekend."

Quick, someone call Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Yeoh!

There's your problem:

Edited by gingerpaul on Friday 13th March 12:36

It's that nobhead Carver again!

[JCB123]

911motorsport said:

fadeaway said:

superkartracer said:

... can they not relax...

I don't think that now's a good time to let the chinessee think that they can push people around and do what they like in internally waters!

It's all just posturing anyway.

Have another

I think I know what you mean, but the Yanks just can't help themselves...in fact f**k em, let them fight with whoever they want, as long as we can stay at home and watch on TV, I couldn't give two hoots....but as this government seems permantly lodged somewhere warm and sticky, I realise that we'd be drafted in as 'allies'.................

[EDLT]

So the US sent a ship to spy on the Chinese and were suprised when they got annoyed?

[Alfanatic]

EDLT said:

So the US sent a ship to spy on the Chinese and were suprised when they got annoyed?

That's how I read it too... anyway, if its in international waters, surely the Chinese boats have a right to park where they want too, without being hosed?

[Parrot of Doom]

Its the Chinese testing the US administration. They did a very similar thing when Bush took office:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_inciden...

They pulled the aircraft to bits to see what was in it.

[krallicious]

Parrot of Doom said:

Its the Chinese testing the US administration. They did a very similar thing when Bush took office:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_inciden...

They pulled the aircraft to bits to see what was in it.

Interesting read. I had completely forgotten about that incident

[Invisible man]

JCB123 said:

911motorsport said:

fadeaway said:

superkartracer said:

... can they not relax...

I don't think that now's a good time to let the chinessee think that they can push people around and do what they like in internally waters!

It's all just posturing anyway.

Have another

I think I know what you mean, but the Yanks just can't help themselves...in fact f**k em, let them fight with whoever they want, as long as we can stay at home and watch on TV, I couldn't give two hoots....but as this government seems permantly lodged somewhere warm and sticky, I realise that we'd be drafted in as 'allies'.................

The waters concerned are not Chinese, in fact 5 different countries lay claim to them. China has always had a twig up it's arse about this