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The Global Times is China’s largest paper focusing on international news under direct sponsorship from the Communist Party central authority.
Posted by thủy tinh vỡ ⋅ September 29, 2011 ⋅
Filed Under ASEAN, china, Global Times, Philippine, South China, south china sea, spratly island, vietnam
The lead article the Chinese Communist Party newspaperGlobal Times on Tuesday contained an alarming call for a declaration of war against Vietnam and Philippines, two nations that in recent weeks launched the loudest protests against China’s sweeping maritime sovereignty claims over the South China Sea.
Headlined “The Time to Use Force Has Arrived in the South China Sea; Let’s Wage Wars on the Philippines and Vietnam to Prevent More Wars,” the article was written by Long Tao, a likely pseudonym literally translated as “The Dragon’s Teaching.” The name refers to the third chapter of the famous Chinese ancient military classic “Six Secret Military Teachings” that, among other things, promotes the idea that the best way to establish military awesomeness is to kill the highest-ranked dissenters.
Vietnam is viewed by China as the most militarily capable state whose government is the most politically uncompromising when it comes to challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
The Philippines recently riled China greatly for its closeness to Japan, and its cantankerous and successful move last week to hold talks within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, without inviting China, on cooperating and clarifying consensual and disputed claims in the South China Sea.
The fiery rhetoric of the article states that “the South China Sea is the best place for China to wage wars” because “of the more than 1,000 oil rigs there, none belongs to China; of the four airfields in the Spratly Islands, none belongs to China; once a war is declared, the South China Sea will be a sea of fire [with burning oil rigs]. Who will suffer the most from a war? Once a war starts there, the Western oil companies will flee the area, who will suffer the most?”
The article further calculates that “the wars should be focused on striking the Philippines and Vietnam, the two noisiest troublemakers, to achieve the effect of killing one chicken to scare the monkeys.”
What about possible U.S. intervention once China starts a war in the South China Sea? No worry, the article states, because the U.S. will be utterly unable to open a second front in the South China Sea to fight China because it is deeply mired in the anti-terror wars of the Middle East.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...a-demands-war/

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1984.

[Savviers]

Does China REALLY believe an open attack on US Allies will go unanswered?

I doubt they do.

[DoctorNiCYDEn]

Does China REALLY believe an open attack on US Allies will go unanswered?

I doubt they do.

So do I. I just think this is something thrown into the debate by some Hawk in Chinese Communist party, to be a discussion point. I doubt this is something that is Chinese official policy from now, maybe a long term goal at the most...