What are you hiding creepy Joe? More items you hide the worse it will get. Your a lightweight and with your metal problems it is damn scary you could EVER be in charge. Sorry for saying that as you would only be an empty puppet and someone else would be in control. You no longer have the ability to lead and not sure you ever did. We all would like to review your past 40 year senate record but that scares the hell out of you because you can't remember what you said such as telling a man in a wheelchair to stand up. What an ass you made of yourself then and many other times. Your time has come and gone Joe and whoever is on the ticket with you would end up becoming the President. People need to remember that should more than a few people really vote for you.
China's military has said it "expelled" a U.S. navy vessel from the hotly contested waters of the South China Sea this week. It said the "USS Barry" had illegally entered China's Xisha territorial waters on Tuesday.
China's Southern Theater army command "organized sea and air forces to track, monitor, verify, and identify the U.S. ships throughout the journey, and warned and expelled them," said Chinese military spokesperson Li Huamin, in a statement.
"The provocative actions of the United States seriously violated relevant international law norms, seriously violated China's sovereignty and security interests, artificially increased regional security risks, and were prone to cause unexpected incidents," he said.
NBC News reached out to American officials who were not immediately available for comment overnight.
The South China Sea is a potentially energy-rich stretch of water and home to more than 200 specks of land. It serves as a gateway to global sea routes where approximately $3.4 trillion of trade passes annually.
The numerous overlapping sovereign claims to islands, reefs and rocks — many of which disappear under high tide — have turned the waters into a zone of competing diplomatic interests, embroiling neighbors. Beijing holds the lion's share of these features with approximately 27 outposts peppered throughout.
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Tension has been simmering in the South China Sea, of late, particularly between China and its Asian seafaring neighbors Malaysia and the Philippines.
This month Vietnam also lodged an official protest with China, following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat it said had been rammed by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel near the Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea. China denied the claims and said the Vietnamese boat had illegally entered the area to fish and refused to leave.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Southeast Asian counterparts that China was taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the coronavirus pandemic to push its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea.
"Beijing has moved to take advantage of the distraction, from China’s new unilateral announcement of administrative districts over disputed islands ... its sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel earlier this month, and its ‘research stations’ on Fiery Cross Reef and Subi Reef," Pompeo said in a video meeting with the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on April 23.
Pompeo also accused China of deploying militarized ships to intimidate other claimant countries from developing offshore gas and oil projects in the region.
Last week, the U.S. Navy said it had partnered with the Australian navy for operations in the South China Sea, which began April 13.
"To bring this much combat capability together here in the South China Sea truly signals to our allies and partners in the region that we are deeply committed to a free and open Indo-Pacific," said Rear Adm. Fred Kacher, commander of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, in a statement.
The U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest numbered fleet and routinely conducts operations in the Indo-Pacific area. It has said that all of its interactions during freedom of navigation movements have been in accordance with international norms.
The U.S. Navy has previously stated that sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea posed a serious threat to freedom of the seas and the right of innocent passage of all ships.
Image: RRoyal Australian Navy helicopter frigate HMAS Parramatta (top right) conducts officer of the watch manoeuvres with amphibious assault ship USS America, guided-missile destroyer USS Barry and guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker (Australia Department Of Defence / Reuters)
China has maintained that it has historical sovereign rights in the South China Sea, which neighboring countries have disputed. In this latest interaction, China said the U.S. was not acting "in line" with the wishes of other countries in the region, which want to "maintain peace and stability in that area."
Spokesperson Li also urged the U.S. to instead focus on its national COVID-19 crisis.
"We urge the United States to focus on the prevention and control of its national epidemic situation, do more useful things for international anti-epidemic efforts, and immediately stop military operations that are not conducive to regional security, peace and stability," he said.
The coronavirus pandemic has been a growing source of tension between the world's two largest economies, with both Washington D.C. and Beijing heaping criticism on each others' handling of the outbreak.
Li added that Chinese forces would continue to "resolutely perform their duties" in the South China Sea to "firmly maintain peace and stability."
The Staff: This is to all RED CHINA LEADERS, "PISS OFF" McArthur should have finished you off and you allowed a Plague to infect most countries and then lied through you teeth about it. The world community needs "BOYCOTT RED CHINA" as they have shown the entire world what they think of everyone else. Now we will see if talk is cheap from other leaders whop kiss China Ass.
American Bridge is a pro-Biden research group and super-PAC. In 2018, the organization accepted a donation of stock in the Chinese internet giant Baidu worth 100 000 dollars. Baidu is Google’s main competitor in the Chinese market and provides many of the same services, such as its flagship search engine. Naturally, like Google, Baidu is deeply involved in collecting, analyzing and selling its users’ private data. The difference is that Baidu has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and operates mainly in a market characterized as a communist police state where individual rights and privacy mean nothing.
Given its ties to the state, Baidu is deeply involved in controlling and restricting the flow of information in China. All businesses in China, like the state apparatus itself, are subordinated to the Chinese Communist Party hierarchy. no organization of any description is allowed to exist in China without direct Communist Party oversight.
China-funded PAC to become main backer of the Biden campaign
America Bridge’s PAC recently joined forces with another pro-Biden super PAC, Unite the Country, to spend 175 million dollars to get Joe Biden elected in November. The alliance aims to be the largest independent backer for the Biden campaign. They have set up a ‘dark money group’ that could see tens of millions of dollars in additional funding supporting Joe Biden.
The Chinese Communist Party has made its preference for Biden over Trump crystal clear. Biden’s ties to the Chinese state go back decades. Joe Biden was responsible for pushing through China’s entrance to the World Trade Organization despite concerns about China’s flaunting of international law. Biden’s son Hunter joined his father on a state visit to China in which he cut a multi-billion investment deal for a firm on the board of which he sits.
President Trump has recently commented that China will do anything they can to keep him from getting re-elected. Trump has placed heavy pressure on China in the field of trade and over China’s origination and handling of the COVID-19 crisis. Recently, Trump announced that he would make China pay for the impact that COVID-19 has had on America and its economy. China is one of the world’s top holders of US sovereign debt. The US government could decide to deduct a certain amount from that debt as compensation for COVID-19.
The difference in positions on China between Trump and Biden illustrates a broader rift among American decision-makers over which is the greater threat to American interests, Russia or China. China is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population. China’s military has less advanced technology than Russia’s, but China’s economy is nearly the size of America’s. Russia’s economy is similar in size to that of New York State or South Korea.
The Staff: If accurate, we can call Sleepy Joe, Dirty RED Joe instead. Don't forget what his son did with Red China, made millions for a fund while having ZERO experience running one.
Retired Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona will not be voting for Donald Trump this November. No, he'll be voting for a Democrat for president for the first time in his life. (Who Cares)
"This won’t be the first time I’ve voted for a Democrat — though not for president [before]. Last time I voted for a third-party candidate. ... But I will not (WHO CARES) vote for Donald Trump," Mr Flake said in an interview with The Washington Post.
Mr Flake insisted that he is "not trying to burn the place down or anything else," but that he's trying to get back what he feels is the lost soul of the Republican party. HOW THE HELL WOULD HE KNOW
The best thing for the future of the Republican party would be "a sound defeat" for Mr Trump in November, Mr Flake said. "No doubt. Long term for the Republican Party, you bet. And for conservatism as well."
By the end of his first and only term as senator from 2013 to 2019, Mr Flake had the worst relationship with Mr Trump of any Senate Republican, as he openly and consistently denounced many of the president's controversial remarks and opposed a handful of his political and judicial appointments. (Like I said, Liberal Trash)
The men's relationship was never strong. Mr Flake called on Mr Trump to withdraw from the 2016 presidential race after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape where Mr Trump openly brags about sexually assaulting women. Mr Trump was so enraged with Mr Flake that his White House was recruiting GOP primary challengers against the senator in the summer of 2017.
While many Republican senators who were critical of Mr Trump early in the 2016 campaign, such as South Carolina's Lindsey Graham, eventually fell in line with the president and have become some of his closest political allies, Mr Flake remained defiantly on the periphery. When he announced his retirement (No Loss) from the Senate in the fall of 2018 amid politically untenable approval ratings, he delivered a scathing speech against the state of politics in Washington that spared no one, not least of all his Republican colleagues nor Mr Trump.
The GOP's aggressive public embrace of the president's hard-nosed political style isn't a Washington-only phenomenon, Mr Flake lamented in his interview with the Post. Trumpism has ensnared Mr Flake's home state politicians, too, including many people to whom the former senator has long personal and political ties.
Arizona Republicans have been complicit in a "total capitulation of the party to Trumpism," Mr Flake vented in the Post interview. (They didn't buy your Crap)
In February, more than 14,000 people flocked to the Veterans
Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix for one of the president's notoriously lively and raucous campaign rallies. In years past, many Arizona lawmakers were reticent about appearing onstage with the Mr Trump. That's no longer the case.
"The other night it was painful to watch the rally in Arizona: the president onstage with virtually all of my Republican colleagues from Arizona — the governor on down, some of whom had been reluctant previously to be on a campaign stage with the president. But who have just completely and utterly thrown in," Mr Flake said. (Has he ever thought he is the Odd Ball)
It is not all gloom and doom for his party, though, Mr Flake suggested. In private conversations, many Republicans acknowledge they've submitted to a "trade-off" in which they publicly tolerate Mr Trump's bombast and anti-institutionalism in exchange for his signature on conservative policies, his nomination of conservative judges and his enactment of tax and regulatory reform. That trade-off is not intended to last forever.
Mr Flake expressed confidence that the GOP can veer back towards a vision that is more inclusive and not fuelled, in his own words, by "anger and resentment."
"I don’t know anyone who thinks that this is the future of the party. This is a demographic cul-de-sac we’re in, if nothing else. Anger and resentment only go so far; you have to have a governing philosophy. I don’t know of any of my colleagues who really believe this is it."
The Staff: No surprise here as this two faced EX Senator will vote for the Sexual Predator Biden. He needs to change parties as we all know he is really a Democratic and hate the Republican Party.
What better person than Hillary to endorse a Sexual Predator than Her. She spend most of her life either defending her husband for being a Sexual Predator and there is a VERY long list of this and a history everyone knows or should. Most only know about Monica but there numerous others and all can be found here on the net. Just type in Clinton, sexual predator and they will pop up. Slick Willy has a very long list and Hillary spent years covering up for her predator husband. The so called news media will NEVER look into sexy Joe and his past as they did with President Trump as it doesn't fit what they want. We have gotten to the point it doesn't matter if the person running for president put his hand in a women panties and played. All the people who won't report on this should take moment and think "What if it was their daughter who Was played with"? By their silence it must be all right with them to assault a wife or daughter. Be careful ladies, if a Democrat would put their hand in your panties, it must be ok with the liberal media.
If the media was fair which they aren't, they would mention that Anthony S. Fauci the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said, "This (Covid-19) is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried About". Ask him how that squares with thousands dead now. Here is the expert the media loves and pits against President Trump whenever they can. Could we say he hung out the President or just plain didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Not sure where I go with those thoughts, but we DO know China lied and covered up what was happening along with the WHO. China and there lying is killing thousands of people around the world and will the world just take it or BOYCOTT. It is time the world dumps China and even we have to pay more for materials goods, isn't it worth it to stay safe. Remember them (china) selling poisoned items for our pets and now faulty testing supplies.When will the world show China the "Collective Middle Finger".
