| mai said: I'm not quite getting this kind of sentiments from people from anti-Chinese coalition nations the US is building up in the South China Sea. I could understand a political sense behind this, but don't see why regular people have problems with Chinese. Even if I put myself in the shoes of Vietnamese or Filipino shouldn't I be more of anti-Americanist given previous conflicts with the US cost them both at least 2m and 200 thousands of civilian deaths respectively? So even if we consider China is "evil", shouldn't it be lesser evil in people's minds even though that is totally subjective? And if anything South China Sea is a pot with a lot of holes, which could be easily closed military-wise and on which PCR depends (energy imports, commodities exports). Resource grab doesn't sound convincing, but threat of economic blockade if very much real. So it makes a lot of sense to build up military infrastructure there. They're desperate enough to build artificial islands solely for that purpose. |
China is the clear and present danger. The Americans may be building up but they ain't taking or claiming territories away. China has no excuse on that one and the American conflict is in the WAY past for us, unlike in Vietnam which happened in the 60's to 70's but on the other hand we did get rid of them and closed the American bases.
There is oil and natural gas in the Spratlys which is part of the South China Sea. It is the most contested part but China happens to want it and everything else.
Also, communism has a bad seed here in the Philippines called the New Peoples Army, they have become hooligans instead of freedom fighters. While there are Anti-American groups, they aren't as big anymore as they were before because of what the NPA has become.
Note: Edited.
