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Mad Dog Mattis Removes Any Question From China’s Mind Over South China SeaPosted at 2:30 pm on February 4, 2017 by streiffIf a war breaks out on Trump’s watch it will have its genesis in the administration of the most cowardly and poltroonish man to have ever occupied the presidency: Barack Obama.For eight long years Obama’s foreign policy revolved around placating our enemies and scaring the living Hell out of our allies with his fecklessness. Nowhere was this more evident than in the South China Sea where several US allies — Japan, South Korea, the Philippines — and some other small countries, like Vietnam, are being bullied into submission by China. In the past few months the Philippines has suspended military cooperation with the United States over its uncertainty about our intentions and China even hijacked a US submersible in international waters.China is creating geographical facts by constructing artificial islands in order to create a territorial claim for all of the South China Sea. Perhaps, though, one of the most provocative things it has done is directly challenge Japan’s sovereignty. The territory in question are the Senkaku Islands. Here China, as it has done in Tibet, has constructed specious historical claims out of whole cloth and is essentially daring the international community to call bullsh** on its bullsh**. China is trying to bully Japan into relinquishing control of these island to China and has taken to intentionally violating airspace and territorial waters to keep tensions high.Continued: http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/02/04/mad-dog-mattis-removes-south-china-sea/
