China Tells USA: Keep Your Distance

[Chef Ramsay]

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Defense Ministry here on Saturday urged the U.S. side to stop close-in surveillance of China, and create a sound atmosphere for bilateral military ties.

The ministry spokesman Yang Yujun said in a statement that one U.S. anti-submarine plane and one patrol aircraft flew to an airspace about 220 kilometers east of China's Hainan Island to conduct close-in surveillance Tuesday morning, and then a Chinese fighter jet took off to make regular identification and verification.

Commenting on relevant criticism made by the U.S. side, Yang said that was "totally groundless," as the Chinese pilot, with professional operation, kept the jet within a safe distance from the U.S. aircraft.

It was U.S. massive and frequent close-in surveillance of China that endanger the two sides' air and marine security, and is the root of accidents, he said.

China urged the U.S. side to abide by international law and international practice, respect concerns of the coastal countries, and properly deal with the differences between the two sides on air and marine security issues, he said.

Yang said that the U.S. side should follow the principle of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win cooperation, take concrete actions, reduce and finally stop close-in surveillance of China, so as to create a sound atmosphere for bilateral military ties.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/23/c_133578974.htm

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[dadugan]

Who is the military think tank behind all the confrontation?

US is fighting too many countries at the same time. It can't possible wage a war on both Russia and China. And have all the Muslim countries angry at it.

[bitsmichel]

Who is the military think tank behind all the confrontation?

US is fighting too many countries at the same time. It can't possible wage a war on both Russia and China. And have all the Muslim countries angry at it.

Exactly, we would not win a war with the world, and is it not in the interest of the people.

[Lauda]

Who is the military think tank behind all the confrontation?

US is fighting too many countries at the same time. It can't possible wage a war on both Russia and China. And have all the Muslim countries angry at it.

Exactly, we would not win a war with the world, and is it not in the interest of the people.

Obama vs Putin would be both destructive and fun to watch. Indeed the US can't take everyone on, what are they thinking?
Unless they have some secret technology that was proven to be very effective.
Even though they can't win vs everyone, they could definitely start a war.

[Lethn]

They don't think, I've come to believe that there are some genuinely psychotic and dangerous people operating in the deepest levels of the U.S government.

[Honeypot]

The chinks can't even keep their muslims in line, and is still trying get rid of the stink of cum from the last time they were raped by japs or other neighbors.

US is more careful now to not become intimate with an infected whore, so chinese can rest easy that US will keep a good distance, and when it wants to, make sure the chinese are pushed into good distance from American path

[countryfree]

Check the American version of what happened here:

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-china-fighter-jet-intercept-20140822-story.html

The Chinese are getting really mad. 220 km from Hainan Island is more than 400 km from mainland China, these are international waters.

[galbros]

This is just classic China asserting itself and the USA acting as it has for the last 50 years.  At some point, unless some accommodation is reached, there will be a clash.  When that happens I wonder what China will do with all their US Treasury bonds?

[Honeypot]

This is just classic China asserting itself and the USA acting as it has for the last 50 years.  At some point, unless some accommodation is reached, there will be a clash.  When that happens I wonder what China will do with all their US Treasury bonds?

Of course, destroy their own economy along with plunging the world into depression, while US may have a mild recession. No one has been stopping them from dumping the bonds but there is a something called international agreement they are bound to, which, if they break em, they are liable never to see their loans back ever again.

US owes maybe 8-9% of its total loans to the chinese. 67% of its total loans are owed to itself, which it is working to downsize.

As the saying goes, if you owe a bank 100k bank owns you, but if you owe them 100 billion, you own the bank.

[DhaniBoy]

it can be a cold war happen, this is kind of psi war between China and USA, and I think, the war for any reason is not good situation for the country
there are can be get a lot of victims when the real war happens, woman and children become the largest victims. Experiences in many countries have proved this situation, hopefully this kind of war won't be happen ...

[kuroman]

well the what the US are thinking is quite clear, they want to shift their geopolitical interests to south Asia and Chinese sea area from the middle east, but the big problem is that they are still tied up in the middle east due to shitstorm they created there, and the Ukraine crisis wasn't planned to last as long, as the US and allies thought that everything would end up with the Ukrainian revolution, yet that wasn't the case as Russia has a lot to lose.

Right now nothing is going according to plan for the US, the plan is clear but the execution is bad, and to be honest, even if the US spy planes are flying in international airspace it is clear what they are targeting and the antisubmarine aircraft was there to spy on the Major Chinese drills they are having in the area.