Pull the other one !

[Ivan Cloherty]

A Chinese Naval training vessel with 476 personnel on board is making a 'friendly' visit to the Philippines. Call me an old cynic but a Chinese ship with innumerable specialists onboard making a friendly visit to a nation that it is having disputes with over navigation rights in the area, so much so that the Philippines has laid scores of buoys marking its territory, and such a vessel on a friendly visit. Someone in the Philippines is asleep at the wheel, the Chinese don't do visits friendly or otherwise without ulterior motives. My guess would be to suss out local conditions and objects of resistance that are, or may not be, not clearly visible from satellite images in case that the Philippinos have the temerity to support Taiwan in event that mainland China does at some time invade China, especially now that the Philippines has reopened some of its naval bases to US Naval vessels.

[Ivan Cloherty]

A Chinese Naval training vessel with 476 personnel on board is making a 'friendly' visit to the Philippines. Call me an old cynic but a Chinese ship with innumerable specialists onboard making a friendly visit to a nation that it is having disputes with over navigation rights in the area, so much so that the Philippines has laid scores of buoys marking its territory, and such a vessel on a friendly visit. Someone in the Philippines is asleep at the wheel, the Chinese don't do visits friendly or otherwise without ulterior motives. My guess would be to suss out local conditions and objects of resistance that are, or may not be, not clearly visible from satellite images in case that the Philippinos have the temerity to support Taiwan in event that mainland China does at some time invade China, especially now that the Philippines has reopened some of its naval bases to US Naval vessels.

Should read ' China does at sometime invade Taiwan '

[happy daze john in oz]

China has for over two decades, according to our defense department, been sniffing around the Soutern Oceans.
They have a lease on the port of Darwin, who knows why??
They only visit and make friends with those they know will be of benefit to them, hence our association with them on trade.
They would be the original smiling assassins given half a chance.