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South China Sea: Philippines says China 'once again' attacked supply vessel with water cannon, causing injuries and damages (hongkongfp.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Philippine military released video of what it said was a nearly hour-long attack off Second Thomas Shoal in the contested South China Sea, where Chinese ships have unleashed water cannon and collided with Filipino vessels in similar stand-offs in recent months.

China Coast Guard and other vessels “once again harassed, blocked, deployed water cannons, and executed dangerous manoeuvres” against a routine rotation and resupply mission to the shoal Saturday morning, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm ashamed of the fact that I once visited China and enjoyed it. Of course I shouldn't admit I enjoyed it, but at the time it looked like China was becoming more civilized and intelligent, now it's gone the other way.

I don't think we should tolerate chinese or russians. I don't think we need to. In America, we proved we could blow away entire cities with fat boy bombs - we practically decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think we definitely can and should do that again by all means.

We used to be courageous enough to hurt our enemies and blow them out of existence. We need to return to those times again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In America, we proved we could blow away entire cities with fat boy bombs - we practically decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I think we definitely can and should do that again by all means.

We used to be courageous enough to hurt our enemies and blow them out of existence. We need to return to those times again.

That was only United States, not America as a whole. I would like people not to blame other countries or a whole continent for the things United States did.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Who was placing any blame? I'm glad we did those things, whether it was the country or the continent or the whole damn fucking world, it needed to be done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've also been to China in the past. It's a great culture with great people, some of them who left the country and now live in the West are among our friends, and they share our 'critical' view of their home country.

It's a tragedy what happens there now and I might never go there again. I don't think we must be ashamed for having enjoyed it, though. I more feel sorry for the people there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I don't feel that way about it anymore. A great culture? Not so much. The country is filthy. People hang their laundry all over the fucking place. They live in dirt farms. It was ugly and unclean. And people there spit all the time to get the filth of pollution out of their lungs.

I've been to open sewers in Mexico that had more beauty in them than the entire nation of China. It's a cesspool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

China is an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Man someone get some Torpedos in their ships.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even if without warheads, start putting holes in their hulls.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah just sink em straight up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Funny, the Chinese internets say the same thing... About the Philippino ships.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Funny that china just removes everything saying otherwise... "internet" lol