China 'steps up preparedness for possible military conflict with US'

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Source: South China Morning Post

China is stepping up preparedness for a possible military conflict with the US as the Donald Trump presidency has increased the risk of hostilities breaking out, state media and military observers said.

Beijing is bracing itself for a possible deterioration in Sino-US ties, with a particular emphasis on maritime security.

The People’s Liberation Army said in a commentary on its official website last Friday, the day of Trump’s inauguration, that the chances of war have become “more real” amid a more complex security situation in Asia Pacific.

The commentary written by an official at the national defence mobilisation department in the Central Military Commission said the call for a US rebalancing of its strategy in Asia, military deployments in the East and South China Seas and the instillation of a missile defence system in South Korea were hot spots getting closer to ignition.

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Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2065799/china-steps-preparedness-possible-military-conflict-us

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This is from Hong King's newspaper of record.

[sarah FAILIN]

1. scary times, but Trumpers will support any war he starts

Then Trump will invest in weapons companies..

[Javaman]

5. until they have skin in the fight.

right now, none of those jerks do.

wait till the body bags start coming home.

[Botany]

2. When do we remove Trump from office as a threat to the world?

A war with China to stop them from drilling for oil and natural gas so they
have to keep buying their energy from Putin/Russia.

The man is crazy.

[TalenaGor]

3. ugh - wtf we need him out asap

[ffr]

4. China has been increasingly hostile and outreaching over the past decade or two.

tRump's erratic behavior could give them the excuse to act out even more aggressively, knowing we're vulnerable in so many ways without leadership. I think tRump's rhetoric and lack of cohesive strategy just emboldens their war hawks. I'm not sure if he even has picked directors for the policy departments in charge of Asia and Russia. Which means there's nobody to advice him on what's happening in those regions, someone whose job it would be to know.

The scary thing is, we're now vulnerable on every front. tRump has no doctrine and his top cabinet pics are wholly incompetent and without ability to act quickly and strategically. The wild card is to what extent the dumpster will act out when his popularity plummets further.

He needs to stop watching Fox Snooze all day and get to work!

[Generator]

6. Does anyone else feel like we are in some dystopian alternate time line?

Like anything could happen next. Aliens? Wars beyond wars? Been watching Colony on USA-the bad guys wear red hats! The aliens built a wall! Where is my old reality?