China - Is she getting frisky?

China's military warns of risk of armed confrontation over seas

Personally, I think that if the Philippines hadn't had Amercian Forces removed then this wouldn't have cropped up.
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yep. I'll concentrate on delivering the left ones & you can do the rights....
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not sure, any port in mind?
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tut tut tut, too many late nights are addling your brain cells...:)

it was a pun.....& yes I'm a southpaw as for ports I'm either sailing into one or one is sailing into me....:)
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have one of these then to refresh the parts other cells can't reach....



It's the new Chinese Rice beer
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rofl

nice bed warmers then..where can i buy some?
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When I was a kid and most of the map was coloured pink, we had relative peace in the world, and by that I mean in peacetime not counting the WWI & WWII conflicts. The days of the Victorian Empire had gone, and we had the Elizabethan Commonwealth. But in almost every case, and certainly in Africa, when the Brits moved out and left the locals to get on with it, their country went rapidly downhill.

Look what happened in Uganda with Idi Amin, and is still happening with Mugabi in Zimbabwe (ex Southern Rhodesia). Look at all the other African ex Brit colonies and protectorates and count up all the famines, poverty and dictatorships. It's a similar story elsewhere in the world, with possibly the exception of India.

The original British Empire was in some cases oppressive, I accept that, and it's successor the British Commonwealth partly came into being to redress that. These days in the 21st century the UK is basically happy to let Commonwealth Countries vote for self determination, and give them independence if they wish, but we have a moral duty in doing so to ensure that the country will not be significantly worse off by that move.

It just seems to me that there were/are far to many little tinpot politicians and would be dictators, whipping up support from a largely poor population, to go for self rule for their own personal ends. In many cases they would have been better off staying under the Brits.

...and look how quickly the U.S.A. collapsed after British occupation left.
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just sayin...

(Then again, it could be argued that British ownership of the US ensued long after that point in history)
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-Dave #2


3.2.0-33

But, on topic here, I'd hate to see that large lady get frisky with anyone. She could probably roll over and squash any of us...
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-Dave #2


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When I was a kid and most of the map was coloured pink, we had relative peace in the world, and by that I mean in peacetime not counting the WWI & WWII conflicts. The days of the Victorian Empire had gone, and we had the Elizabethan Commonwealth. But in almost every case, and certainly in Africa, when the Brits moved out and left the locals to get on with it, their country went rapidly downhill.

Look what happened in Uganda with Idi Amin, and is still happening with Mugabi in Zimbabwe (ex Southern Rhodesia). Look at all the other African ex Brit colonies and protectorates and count up all the famines, poverty and dictatorships. It's a similar story elsewhere in the world, with possibly the exception of India.

The original British Empire was in some cases oppressive, I accept that, and it's successor the British Commonwealth partly came into being to redress that. These days in the 21st century the UK is basically happy to let Commonwealth Countries vote for self determination, and give them independence if they wish, but we have a moral duty in doing so to ensure that the country will not be significantly worse off by that move.

It just seems to me that there were/are far to many little tinpot politicians and would be dictators, whipping up support from a largely poor population, to go for self rule for their own personal ends. In many cases they would have been better off staying under the Brits.

but we have a moral duty in doing so to ensure that the country will not be significantly worse off by that move.