American provocations in South China Sea raising prospect of war with China

The Americans have thrown the first punch at China in the South China Sea. The early settlers of North America sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to kill the Red Indians and robbed their land. On Tuesday, USS Lassen sailed thousands of miles from stolen Red Indian territories they now called the USA, crossed the Pacific Ocean to within 12 nautical miles of Chinese islands in the South China Sea in a blatant show of force and spinning the story of freedom of navigation. Every country is watching this provocative and aggressive military adventure by the Americans in China’s territorial water.

China has allowed the Americans to make the first hostile move to show to the world who is the real provocateur in this incident. The deliberate intrusion close to Chinese islands was anything but friendly and a military challenge to China’s ownership of the islands. China would now have to respond to the provocation in defence of its territories.

Several American thinking analysts have spoken and giving all the stupid reasons that China, militarily weaker than the US would not dare to confront the American warship and would allow the Americans to do as they liked. That China is too pre occupied with the five year economic plan at the Central Committee Plenum and would not want to escalate the confrontation. So it is alright for the Americans to do all the provocations. China is all but a meek country that would not fight the Americans and would allow the Americans to push it around. China would back down when the Americans are prepared to show its military muscles.

These American thinking analysts could never understand that the 200 years of humiliation under the European powers would only make China want to stand up to the Americans, and stepping down under further provocations and to be humiliated again is not an option. If Xi Jinping would to back down, he would lose his power immediately. He would have all the military leaders and the people of China to rise to support him if he needs to go to war with the Americans. The Chinese people have enough of foreign bullying and would demand the Chinese leaders to go to war with the Americans.

China has been preparing for this day for a long time. China may not be able to launch an invasion of the US homeland, but to defend its territorial sovereignty, it has all the means to do so and effectively. It has all the weapons to take on the Americans in a conventional war. The Americans have nothing for the Chinese to fear in conventional warfare and as a defending force, China has all the advantages of a huge base and arsenal waiting for the Americans.

China will now have all the reasons to reinforce its positions in the South China Sea and be ready to take on the Americans head on.  The Americans came for war and showing the other cheek to the Americans would only invite war. China would have to rapidly build up its defence forces in the islands to take the American aggression  head on. The Americans have just given the Chinese the perfect reason to arm the newly created islands to the teeth. Xi Jinping will not allow Obama or any American president to push him around. It is war if the Americans were to carry out another provocative move. China will be ready and will be waiting.

The Americans will face a force that it has never seen before since the Korean War. China is not Vietnam or any of the defenceless Arab states, or the Talibans or ISIS. It will be a test of military might and political will.  Obama and all the hawks in Washington will now have a chance to prove how brave and good they are in fighting a real war with someone of the same weight class. Go ahead and prove that the Americans are made of real stuff and can push China around in Chinese territories.

The whole world is watching. And China has no other choice but to push back the American adventurism by force.

For the silly Asean countries, the Americans have made a statement of power, no one is to claim any of the islands in the South China Sea. They belong to the American Empire. The silly Aquino is giggling without knowing that he has invited the wolf into the region. The Americans have claimed Hawaii, the Marshalls, Guam and even Gan in the Indian Ocean. They used to claim the Philippines. Now they are coveting the islands in the South China Sea.