tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post5225184694453347788..comments2023-02-28T12:46:20.040+01:00Comments on Ecowar: Asia: Oil, climate, conflictBennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-8020474880749700802011-06-26T15:29:24.186+02:002011-06-26T15:29:24.186+02:00FP / The brinkmanship in the South China Sea
"...<a href="http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/13/the_brinksmanship_in_the_south_china_sea" rel="nofollow">FP / The brinkmanship in the South China Sea</a><br /><em>"Vietnam is conducting live-fire drills in the South China Sea in a show that it won't be intimidated in a push-and-shove dispute with China over waters suspected of containing significant oil reserves. Over the weekend, Hanoi urged its former enemy -- the United States -- to help pull the row back from the flashpoint, reports the Financial Times' Ben Bland. In this case, the U.S. will oblige -- to a degree.<br /><br />Last Friday, the U.S. State Department said it is "troubled" by the rise in tensions. Though for the last year the U.S. has met a request by southeast Asian nations to resist its instincts to defend them, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last summer suggested the nation was prepared to do, one can imagine a sturdy U.S. response in the Vietnam situation. Not to say that President Barack Obama would dispatch an aircraft carrier square into the disputed zone -- the U.S. will stay well back from rattling its war sword. But there could be stern new warnings from Clinton among other steps, under the presumption that Beijing will temper its behavior accordingly."</em>Bennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6754440720637307312.post-90675325517809577142011-06-16T03:30:42.148+02:002011-06-16T03:30:42.148+02:00Read more about “China claims Spratly Islands over...Read more about “China claims Spratly Islands over Philippines” at http://paidcritique.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-claims-spratly-islands-over.htmlChina claims Spratly Islands over Philippineshttp://paidcritique.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-claims-spratly-islands-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com