Asean Countries Should Be Wary of US Evil Designs in The South China Sea

               Last week over one hundred US businessmen, professionals, ex-ambassadors and diplomats in an open letter to Trump advised that China is not an enemy of America. This week about one hundred and thirty warhawks from the Pentagon, CIA, Whitehouse, Congress and the Senate sent a counter open letter to Trump advising  that China post a threat to America's design of achieving a new one world order under America's absolute control and hegemony and told Trump not to negotiate with China until China is defeated and taken down.

The free world must seriously take note of these warhawks intent of open confrontation not only with China but also with Russia, Iran, DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries which do not subscribe to US dictates.

Bearing this in mind Asean countries must beware of US evil sinister design in the South China Sea. The South East Asian countries must not fall into the American trap of instigating and fomenting wars and conflict in the South China Sea between them and China as they had done in the Middle East. They must not be taken in and succum to US fake and false allegation and propaganda that China post a threat to them. Unlike US and its European allies China had never taken an inch of other people's lands. On the contrary China had lost hundreds of thousands of square miles of lands during the western imperialist and colonial wars against a former weak China, the lost lands of which are now in the possession of ex-colonies.

Having stated the facts South East Asian states must not be befuddled by the US created South China Sea issues. They must be honest and clear in their minds as to who actually owns the islands in the South China Sea historically and legally.

Historically the islands inclusive of the Paracels and the Spratly islands have been Chinese sovereign territories for thousands of years. They were occupied by the Japanese during the Second World War . However, after the Second World War all the islands were legally returned to China by the United Nations via many treaties all duly signed by US, UK, France, Russia, China and Japan. Back then no one, not even US, UK or Japan or any other Asian country dispute China's ownership of these islands . By the way Vietnam, philippines, Malaysia and Brunei were still colonial territories governed by France, America and England respectively. They were not independent countries and their then colonial masters did recognise China's sovereignty and ownership of these islands through proper United Nations announcements and promulgations in many solemn treaties all duly signed.

It was when after China came under Chairman Mao's communist rule that US reneged on the UN treaties which legally returned the islands to China. Even then they did not dispute the fact that the islands were indisputedly Chinese sovereign territories.

It was after the discovery of rich oil reserves beneath the sea that US started its insidious plans of trying to deprive China's ownership of the islands. The result was the US created UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law of The Sea , which allows coastal states to claim up to 200 miles of shore for economic priviledge.

China agreed to the treaty with the proviso of UNCLOS  Aricle 298 , and with the clear stipulation that the treaty must not and will not impinge or supercede on Chinese historical and legal ownership of the South China Sea islands.

It was the US which initiated the UNCLOS treaty . But strangely enough US and some of its allies walked away from the treaty and never signed it. On hindsight it is realised that if they did UK and US would have to return hundreds of islands which they had previously occupied illegally to their rightful owners.

Apparently the UNCLOS treaty was created with the vile intention by US to induce the few naive South East Asian countries to claim 200KM of shore sea front with the ill intention to encroach and impinge on Chinese sovereignty and ownership of all the Chinese island territories in the South China Sea.

In the meantime with US encouragement and backing in the later part of 1970s, when China still did not have a decent navy to patrol her seas and waters, Vietnam unashamely stole 25 of Chinese islands, the Philippines 12, Malaysia 7 and Brunei 5. Now with US support they openly claim these Chinese islands as theirs base on UNCLOS , which China had clearly stated under UNCLOS Article 298 that the treaty must not and will not impinge or supercede on the historical and legal ownership of China of these islands.

The Evil Empire is playing with fire in the South China Sea. It is trying to start proxy wars between some South East Asian countries and China for its own selfish interest. Do Asean countries want to see South East Asian region fall into the same war torn quagmire of the Middle East as created by the Evil Empire and suffer the same consequences. So beware of the evil empire's trap. Just as US has for years been posting dangers to many countries in the Middle East, South America, Africa and North East Asia, it is now posting a great danger to the South East Asia region of the South China Sea.

However, China did not dislodge these illegal occupiers from the Chinese islands physically and militarily but hope to talk to the countries concerned peacefully through negotiations in a civilize manner. China is very magnanimous and is prepared to share the oil and other resources below the sea bed thrhough joint operations. Hope Vietnam, philippines, Malaysia and Brunei will have the wisdom to see China's benign power and generosity and not become stubborn and intransigent to fall into the American trap of enloping the region into a new war zone of wars and conflicts.

Southernglory1

Thursday, 25th July, 2019