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Fos,

China Island Tracker

China has 20 outposts in the Paracel Islands and 7 in the Spratlys. It also controls Scarborough Shoal, which it seized in 2012, via a constant coast guard presence, though it has not built any facilities on the feature. Since 2013, China has engaged in unprecedented dredging and artificial island-building in the Spratlys, creating 3,200 acres of new land, along with a substantial expansion of its presence in the Paracels.

https://amti.csis.org/island-tracker/china/

The government of China, President Xi Jinping have invested trillions of dollars developing these fortified heavily armed, primarily intended for warfare, to secure/seizing global trading shipping routes essential for the regions economics.

Fos, you contend United States of America is the most aggressive country in the world?,

I suggest with clear evidence, President Xi Jinping despot regime provoked by actions, intentions that will ultimately lead to Armageddon.

The Government of Japan have every reason to feel intimidated, to take preventive action.

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Fair trade promotes confidence trust.

A sound rules based business relationship between nations having past historic grievances, can build firm solid foundations furnishing, supporting secure meaningful diplomatic relations.

Action, as ever, speak loader than words.

Behaviours, the constant need Xi Jinping to harass, to humiliate, the intimidation, demands, the incursions.

The insistence that the east and south China seas, are government of China sole property, essential global trade shipping routes.

Actions, clear evidence of government of China intention to dominate, to seize if deemed necessary, by military force.

Those fortified south China sea sand castles, proof that sooner or later dictator Xi Jinping will provoke through blockade confrontation/war.

Does Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi offer certitude conviction?

Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya at the outset of the talks in Beijing that the two countries are "partners for cooperation" and that he would like to see ties advance "on the right track."

Treacherous, fork tongued, unscrupulous serpent springS to mind.

Caveat emptor, buyer beware!!

starpunk,

Donald Trump presidency, an historic split second term is likely to be punctuated with the next generation pushing him towards the exit.

Trump vice president James David Vance, I suggest, is his, or will become his nemesis. you can almost taste the stench of Vance ambition.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba must not be to eager to take Trump at his word.

Trump is unpredictable, which can catch his detractors off guard.

Trump provokes reaction. Then manipulates an outcome to his own advantage..

The government of China is intent on weaponizing a devastating natural disaster.

To leverage trade, to ruthlessly curtail Japan fishing industry, to extort, with menaces, intimidate, for geopolitical gain, to ransom force Government of Japan future silence,

Bend to Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China "instrument" of regional/state control, humiliate Japan into cowering permissive conformity.

The government of China has spent the people of China inheritance, their children future, many trillions of dollars, creating, fortifying artificial shoals/islands for the sole purposed to impose milltary control over trade shipping routes.

Taiwan will be forcefully taken, its people enslaved.

Both the East and South China seas blockaded.

Occupation and Island Building

Five claimants occupy nearly 70 disputed reefs and islets spread across the South China Sea. They have built more than 90 outposts on these contested features, many of which have seen expansion in recent years.

 AMTI has gathered satellite imagery of each outpost, along with other relevant information, to document their current status and any changes they have undergone in recent years. Explore the database below.   

https://amti.csis.org/island-tracker/

Judge for yourselves, the evidence in unequivocal, compelling.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the people of Japan, need concrete guarantees from president elect Donald Trump, not “deals”.

The people of Japan must consider a deterrent, off shore, next generation hypersonic missile capability,

A full public debate must begin, the people must decide, be presented with the threat despot dictator Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China represents.

Would Donald Trump go to war if Taiwan, Japan was to come under the goose stepping jack boot of Xi Jinping thuggery?

A pertinent question!

And yet we all have the intelligence to educate ourselves, to question, to protest, sometimes violently, to hold out miscreant corrupt Politian's accountable at the ballot box.

However are we not deluding ourselves?

Are we not vulnerable to our own gullibility, easily tempted to accept blatant media falsehood?

Finally to appease our enemies, to fecklessly take our basic human rights, hard fort through two world wars, recklessly for granted.

Maybe so.

UK government had little choice, WoodyLee.

Why Did China Lease Hong Kong to Britain?

And Why Britain Handed Over Hong Kong to China in 1997

https://www.thoughtco.com/china-lease-hong-kong-to-britain-195153

The lease agreement had to be honoured without question.

As a child i cherished the times with uncle "Afghan Alf" , Dad side of the family, camper than a row of tents, glamper than the limpest of Lionel's, a wonderful cross dressing cacophony of colour and candour,

I would corner Mum and Dad with question after question. Alf is wearing your lip stick Mum, why?

Uncle Alf the ayatollah of sheer peculiar, odd eccentricity. however never a Christmas would he not sparkle savour the world around him 

I miss him dearly.

The transgression, the gross act of such felony, warranting harsh retribution, a price bounty put on all their heads.to be accused of being furtive from justice!!!!!???

Simple pro-democracy campaigners.

This act proves that western democracies, the global free world needs to treat the government of China with extreme prejudice, isolation, to be held fully accountable for the genocide of its own people.

Yes, to state unequivocally, invade Taiwan, seize control of global shipping trading routes will be met with the gravest of consequences.

Fos you hold your ground well, valid points, our democratically elected leaders are fallible, indeed sometimes corrupt.

However, one can march up and down outside the Whitehouse placard held aloft, chanting out load protesting, those hypocrisies to one content all day, every day.

Then travel home still in one piece

Protest in China or Hong Kong, even if resident outside the country, your life  could be at risk.

Hong Kong offers bounties for 6 pro-democracy campaigners in security squeeze

https://japantoday.com/category/world/hong-kong-offers-bounties-for-six-more-democrats-in-security-squeeze1

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is a testament to the government of China despotism.

Not even a plaque of remembrance exists.

Fos, steer clear, refrain from "whataboutery", dead end "rabbit hole" reasoning, logic.

No excuses.

So called "anti-Beijing hysteria" are all of Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China own making,

The political diplomatic repercussions to future world peace clearly defined.

Don't let political animosity of a MAGA/Trump Presidency or Brexit (GBR48) cloud the fact that WHO needs structural reform to restore trust.

777,026,543 lives lost and still counting.

https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/cases

Doubt about WHO independence in thoroughly investigating the origins of the deadly pandemic, have left distrust, misgivings, scepticism.

Political interference from the government of China, deceit, cover up has left a notable question mark hanging over WHO future role

WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigation

Sensitive studies in China were intended to pinpoint the source of the pandemic virus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00283-y

Don't readers yearn to be triggered, provoked, to seethe in the red mist of indignation?

Why the world’s worst newspaper hates Britain so much

https://www.reaction.life/p/why-the-worlds-worst-newspaper-hates-britain-so-much-nyt-new-york-times

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Enjoy your good health, an occasion for nostalgic celebration, Happy Birthday

The eye of the beholder perhaps?

Context?

A smidgen of both, with dollop of misrepresentation/irony, not always in that order.

An uptick from me on your opinions on Apple, Google, Zuckerberg's Facebook, Fos.

It's the sheer animosity, towards the cynical despicable greed associated with U.S. health insurance industries overwhelming failure for any respect to a basic responsibility for a shred of human kindness, that takes the breath away.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson murder gunned down in New York on December 4 is testimony to a section of society so incensed that any sympathy for the family has evaporated.

Fos, I have visited China Shanghai once, Hong Kong once, and have been and still am impressed by the warm polite welcome, from the peace loving peoples.

That is not the case of the Government, I was part of a team promoting business investment, our every movement was monitored, we had a succession of daily minders.

We were advised on what we can film or not.

Who we approached, how we interacted.

My point, that is the government of China paranoia, a fear of change, of the essence of human natures desire to question, to bloom, to grow.

I suggest the government of China inherent fear of freedoms of expression compels belligerence to the democracies that thrive.

deanzaZZR, no sane person would seriously countenance nuclear war.

Whether tactical or strategic.

UK chose parliamentary democracy, over tyranny.

Centuries of civil wars, hundreds of million of lives sacrificed, to settle, to truly appreciate basic human rights, the right to protest, the right of expression etc.

certainly not without flaws faults.

The horrors of WW2 were exasperated because weak political leadership chose appeasing Nazi dictators.

Never ever again.

The government of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran have betrayed their peace loving peoples.

I have visited Shanghai, Hong Kong, the people are polite kind, can you honestly state hand on heart that their is any freedom exists.

Can the people of China protest?

Every democracy has celebrated "cross dressing" for centuries, entertainment, the film industry, comedy, etc.

Sex reassignment surgery to quote helps transgender or non-binary people align their physical appearance and functional abilities, for decades.

Its is extremist activism, toxicity of a few that weaponizes an identity political narrative agenda to create violent discourse poison communities' society at every level.

Women's young girls save spaces, changing areas, protections for women's sport.

That is my humble opinion,

I could not care less if people what to self identify with, cattle, groceries, shopping trolleys.

Let children grown up naturally, as nature intended, without any outside puberty blocking, chemical interference.

The transgender community must never be burnt at the stake for the toxic political identity ideological politics of an extremist few.

The rabid mutilation of the English language at the alter of zealot pursuits of a pronoun police state.

Fos, the government of China threatens every human right, every value, every freedom, that the democratic free world stands for.

The government of China at ever turn engages in acts of aggression , of intimidation, incursions into regional Exclusive Economic Zone, air space, sea, of every one of its democratic neighbour's.

The Japanese people are openly harassed, harshly remined, when the occasion presents itself to be humiliated, J people define what a constitution devoted to peaceful co existence stands for.

The government of China demands obedience, threatens violent enforcement if questioned.

The government of China preposterous insistence that the East and South China Seas are the sole property of the government of China must be challenged with military action if necessary.

deanzaZZR...

If the government of China were to invade Taiwan, the world could indeed be at a state of war.

The consequences could also result in a tactical exchange of nuclear weapons.

Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China must be left in no doubt.

Annihilation..... ho hum

The fee for my 10 year, 48 page passport was 9000 yen 2016.....

I will be anticipate the fee 2026 of the new design to treble that.

The government of China, its dictatorship, its appalling record of human right, its despotism, its genocide of its own people.

The threats to peace loving neighbours, its insistence that the East and South China sea are the sole property of government of China, essential global; shipping routes, the fortification of Islands to enforce the government of China will on the whole region.

The refusal to any rules based trading law.

The Government of China has reaped the whirlwind, now could face the consequences.

Invade Taiwan and face the prospect of total antihalation.

Interesting, the logistics, how Santa will be loading 300 tactical radio systems and 16 gun mounts on the sleigh.

Santa's helper elf's will be on double time and bonus

al together now Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!,