Philippines rejects China's demand to remove grounded navy ship
FILE PHOTO: The BRP Sierra Madre, a marooned transport ship which Philippine Marines live on as a military outpost, is pictured in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Mar 30, 2014. (Reuters/Erik De Castro)
MANILA: The Philippines will not remove a dilapidated navy ship grounded on an atoll in the South China Sea, its defence chief said on Thursday (Nov 25), rejecting a demand by China after it blocked a mission to resupply the vessel's crew.
Above is copied from CNA.
This is what you would get when dealing with small time gangsters. But China is very patient and closed an eye to let them amuse themselves thinking that they are heroes and warriors. China would restrain itself and not taking out the fly swap to swap the flies.
Actually China understood that the Pinoys have no means or ability to move that piece of scrap iron. This is in the middle of no where and China has all the time to wait. It does not cost China anything but plenty of money, food and agony for the poor soldiers living in the rusting tin can, risking their lives and away from their loved ones...and looking silly.
China could do them a favour by burying it with sand from its super sand dredger, the heavenly dragon. But that would give the penniless and homeless bums a chance to cry foul, that China is a bully. Or is it the beggars bullying China by saying die die, never mind, after all they have nothing to lose?
Instead of getting back to work, to be useful, they choose to rot in the sea and pretending that they were having a great time, a great holiday, or fighting a great war. What kind of mentality is that?
The whole episode exemplifies the South China Sea island claim dispute. Little countries making spurious claims on Chinese islands but without the means of making it theirs and at the mercy of China that could kick their asses anytime it likes. And the world's number one trouble maker egging them on.
Parking your scrap car inside your neighbour's court yard and refuse to move, to stake a claim on his land? China has been extremely kind not to drag the tincan into the sea and let the Pinoy soldiers float in their life buoys and hoping to be picked up be passing ships. The dull Pinoys could not appreciate how kind the Chinese are. If it were another big power or Asean power, they would have been kicked out of the sand bank long ago.
The rotten prawns have never been trusted, even among Singaporeans. As attack dogs of the USA, honestly, we cannot expect them to give China any peace.
ReplyDeleteThe whole Philippine administration has been sold out lock, stock and barrel the the USA. Among all the Presidents, Marcos take s the cake. Wasn't he a dictator who ruled the Philippines under martial law? Yet the USA stuffed his pockets with billions of dollars of fragrant grease. Talk about the USA against dictatorship. What a joke!
The Philippine, like the USA, can have any President it elects, but all will be anti China elements through and through. They cannot do otherwise because the whole Government is infested with pro USA hardcore sycophants. Change is impossible.
When the fall of the USA becomes reality, you can be sure they will crawl towards China. Low downs are like that!