USN to challenge S. China Sea Islands

[cfam]

Not specific to the islands issue, but here's a good (and completely unclass) refresher on the PLA(N) for your reading pleasure. It does give some background on why those claims are being made.

http://www.oni.navy.mil/Intelligence_Community/china_media/2015_PLA_NAVY_PUB_Interactive.pdf

 

[Flash]

This is a little disappointing, I can understand not wanting to rock the boat with a new administration but FON ops isn't exactly a new thing and extends the troubling trend of denials from the last administration.

 

[sevenhelmet]

Agreed. It's like the "Black Line" with Iran. When we acknowledge it, they win in every meaningful sense of the word.

 

[Hair Warrior]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1350819074662567938

 

[Pags]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1350819074662567938

There used to be a "best practice" that if you're going to post a link you should accompany it with some of your thoughts. So we know you're more than a bot.

 

[Brett327]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1350819074662567938

Do you have some analysis to offer, or are you just amplifying the talking points of the Chinese government?

 

[Brett327]

Pags beat me by literally 1.5 seconds.

 

[Jim123]

Pags beat me by literally 1.5 seconds.

repeating, of course

 

[HAL Pilot]

Censored once again...

 

[Pags]

Censored once again...

He'd have to have presented a thought to have been censored.

 

[HAL Pilot]

He'd have to have presented a thought to have been censored.

There were thoughts, you just didn’t like them.

Heil Mods!

 

[Pags]

There were thoughts, you just didn’t like them.

Heil Mods!

No, there was a link. No thoughts or analysis on what we should take from the link or why it was worth sharing. If I wanted to read tweets without further commentary I'd go to twitter.

 

[scoolbubba]

All this needs is a mod to drop an ad hominem attack and we've got an AW winning pony.

 

[Pags]

Come on gang, we had a real nice discourse in the "consequences" thread that involved independent and critical thought and analyses and was more that just posting tweets. We can do this!

 

[HAL Pilot]

If I wanted to read tweets without further commentary I'd go to twitter.

So your not wanting to read a tweet makes it wrong...

I wasn’t talking about @Hair Warrior being censored but my removed post. But you did basically threaten to censor him too.

Heil Mods!