Embarrassment as Chinese frigate runs aground

[tuer502gt]

A Chinese warship has run aground while patrolling contested waters adjacent to the Philippines in the South China Sea.

The frigate pinned itself to a reef last night at Half Moon Shoal, on the south-eastern edge of the Spratly Islands, and remains "thoroughly stuck", according to Western diplomatic sources shortly after midday local time, or 2pm AEST.

Salvage operations could be diplomatically challenging, given the vessel appears to have run aground within 200 kilometres of the Philippines coast, which is squarely within what Manila claims to be its Exclusive Economic Zone.

The stricken People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, believed to be No. 560, a Jianghu-class frigate, has in the past been involved in aggressively discouraging Filipino fishing boats from the area.
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The accident could not have come at a more embarrassing moment for the Chinese leadership, who have been pressing territorial claims and flexing the country's muscle ahead of a leadership transition later this year.

Today's meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations in Cambodia ended in disarray, without a code of conduct for resolving conflicts in the South China Sea, following robust intervention from China.

Also this week, China yesterday dispatched one of its largest-ever fishing expeditions from Hainan Island to another disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.

Earlier in the week, PLA generals and top foreign policy advisers urged China to do more to press its claims.

Cui Liru, president of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a leading think tank that reports to the main intelligence department, said Beijing had previously focused too much on seeking common ground with its neighbours and putting disputes on the shelf.

"In the foreseeable future, say at least in five years, the Asia-Pacific region will still be showing every feature of a transitional period, which is characterised by a certain level of chaos," he said.

China's ministry of foreign affairs was not immediately available for comment.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/embarras...713-220r8.html

Lol. Chicom scum.

[Vox Ducis]

Who's scared of the Chinese?

[007GoldenShower]

The captain forgot to put on his eye-wideners

[Issue313]

Ships run aground ALL THE TIME, a search for "us navy ran aground" reveals more incidents with more different types of boat than I can list. Its not what you call a big deal. It doesn't matter if the boat is within the Phillippines 200km EEZ, China has declared the Phillippines to be pussies and unilaterally decided that they have no EEZ in some of their waters along the China sea, and that China owns the water right up to the beach in places. Its not in keeping with international norms, but what are you going to do about it? China is flexing nuts with the Phillippines, and would love if those island niggers tried something.

ITT: cheap western propoganda, pretend laughing at the Chinese, cos the west is too scared of China to do anything else.

[tuer502gt]

Originally Posted by Issue313

Ships run aground ALL THE TIME, a search for "us navy ran aground" reveals more incidents with more different types of boat than I can list. Its not what you call a big deal. It doesn't matter if the boat is within the Phillippines 200km EEZ, China has declared the Phillippines to be pussies and unilaterally decided that they have no EEZ in some of their waters along the China sea, and that China owns the water right up to the beach in places. Its not in keeping with international norms, but what are you going to do about it? China is flexing nuts with the Phillippines, and would love if those island niggers tried something.

ITT: cheap western propoganda, pretend laughing at the Chinese, cos the west is too scared of China to do anything else.

When you are trying to flex muscle, you do not run aground. During training it can sometimes be acceptable.

The Chinese claim these waters as their own. If that was the case, they should be intimately familiar with them, and not run aground. These are not Chinese waters. They are Filipino waters.

If China started on the Phillipines fair dinkum, the whole world would jump in and crush China.

You are posting anti-Western propaganda.

It is not propaganda when you just establish the facts, as the original post did.

You are not doing that.

You post an unsubstantiated comment regarding China having the ability to win against the USA in a war.

That is blatantly false. China stands no chance.

Hence they go after a small country like the Phillipines, who hasn't had a US military presence for some time.

They would be insane to try tactics as extreme as these on South Korea, Japan or Taiwan. Because they know they would get stomped.

[FNIC]

Originally Posted by tuer502gt

When you are trying to flex muscle, you do not run aground. During training it can sometimes be acceptable.

The Chinese claim these waters as their own. If that was the case, they should be intimately familiar with them, and not run aground. These are not Chinese waters. They are Filipino waters.

If China started on the Phillipines fair dinkum, the whole world would jump in and crush China.

You are posting anti-Western propaganda.

It is not propaganda when you just establish the facts, as the original post did.

You are not doing that.

You post an unsubstantiated comment regarding China having the ability to win against the USA in a war.

That is blatantly false. China stands no chance.

Hence they go after a small country like the Phillipines, who hasn't had a US military presence for some time.

They would be insane to try tactics as extreme as these on South Korea, Japan or Taiwan. Because they know they would get stomped.

Shit happens. are you aware of the numerous blunders and fuck ups of the us milliatry? There are too many to list. so shut youre bitch mouth. China isn't even flexing muscle. What they are doing is trying to fish south because of the pacific being ruined by Fukushima radiation.

[Yggdrasil]

Originally Posted by Issue313

ITT: cheap western propoganda, pretend laughing at the Chinese, cos the west is too scared of China to do anything else.

It's funny because they're chinks