Last week, during an East Asia Summit meeting in Phnom Penh, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to stand fast and use diplomacy to resolve claims over territorial waters in the South China Sea. China has insisted that it had “indisputable sovereignty” over islands that are claimed by Vietnam to the Scarborough Shoal near the Philippines. They include islands near Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan. Secretary Clinton urged these three nations to collectively negotiate with the Chinese regarding territorial waters. China wanted bilateral talks with each country where they felt they can intimate them into surrounding territorial claims without much attention. In an angry response, the Chinese delivered a message to the United States that amounted to “Shut Up!”
Background
China maintains that its claims to the islands of the South China Sea are ancient and were reaffirmed by China’s 1947 claim, which wasn’t disputed. Furthermore, as their argument goes, when the Communists took power in 1949, they expanded their territorial claim. Nevertheless, the traditional boundary that China claims in the South China Sea exists in theory only. Additional nations have made claims to islands and reefs in the region for fishing and mineral rights. However, after the discovery of oil in the region, the Dragon knew it had to reclaim all of South China Sea.
Why?
China needs oil and lots of it. They need it for their military and their factories so they can continue to manufacture cheap parts that are too expensive to make anywhere else. The Chinese mainland is energy-poor and needs to import coal and oil to meet its energy needs. The South China Sea has an estimated 17.7 billion tons of crude oil, and China is expanding its presence in the region to claim exclusive rights to any oil found. China needs to have total control of the sea lanes in the region to insure she gets the energy needed to be a superpower. They don’t want any external forces involved (read the United States) as they go about their territory grab.
The Chinese now feel emboldened that they can start throwing around their weight. They have a permanent position on the UN Security Council, they are no longer afraid of Russia, and they own a good portion of America’s debt. So what does Hillary Clinton do when the Chinese tell her to shut up? She shuts up.
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Clinton is whore for liberal democrats
What good little commie crats you are! You get 2 red stars each!
Amazing! She never shut up when I screamed at her to shut up.
hillbillery in action again…where does she find the time, with all her makeup and all……..
November 6th can't get here fast enough!
yes, I know what you mean, It can't get here fast enough. The only thing that scares me most if this incompetent idiot president is re-elected, now that is scary. That is why it is important to vote this year, to get this man out of the white house. lets send him packing him and all those other crooked politicians
Billy Jean is right the dumb ass americans who think they are entitled to free programs may show up.
We knew she was a liberal whore long ago. This is pathetic, and these
stupid American Bolsheviks are a disgrace. These “progressives” must
be weeded out of our government and other places of authority. Our main
task, after defeating the first (half) black Resident, is to restore our
Constitutional Republic back into the hands of able conservative management
which restore free reign to the private sector – small business entrepreneurship
which has always been the economic engine of America which created the jobs
for her people. Obama is a disaster who has shown us vividly who are America’s
domestic enemies. Thank you, Obama. Now WE know who to watch.
China is trying to increase its Energy foot print, while Obama is trying to close down ours by shutting off Coal Fired power Plants other than his GE Campaign contributors Plants. Obama's energy plan is so ass backwards that ANYONE and I mean ANYONE with 2 brain cells to rub together knows that if we want to start up Manufacturing Plants again in the U.S. we will NEED all the Power Plants running that we can get.
I guess that is the reason that the Liberals/Progressives back Obama…they don't have 2 Brain Cells to rub together!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzV5AIK8iM
Grab the pebble grasshopper and bend over and let the Chinese stick it in your rear.Behind me are the Russians,Iranians Syrians,Eygptians and others ready to stick it up your ass.