US, CHINA MAY FIGHT A WAR OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA: TOP DONALD TRUMP AIDE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2017 BY INDIANDEFENSE NEWS
Tensions between the China and the US and Japan, as well as other countries, have increased in recent years over a dispute about who exactly owns the part of the Pacific Ocean.
LONDON: President Donald Trump's closest adviser thinks the US will fight a war with China in the next five to 10 years over the strategic South China Sea claimed by the Communist giant, British media reported.
"We're going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years, aren't we?" Steve Bannon, a far-right figure, who has been given unprecedented power in the White House Bannon said on his radio show in March 2016.
He said suggested that the US and China are headed towards war over the South China Sea.
"There's no doubt about that. They're taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face -- and you understand how important face is -- and say it's an ancient territorial sea," the Independent quoted him as saying.
Tensions between the China and the US and Japan, as well as other countries, have increased in recent years over a dispute about who exactly owns the part of the Pacific Ocean.
China says nearly the entire South China Sea falls within its territory, with half a dozen other countries maintaining partially overlapping claims.
http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2017/02/us-china-may-fight-war-over-south-china.html
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2017 BY INDIANDEFENSE NEWS
Tensions between the China and the US and Japan, as well as other countries, have increased in recent years over a dispute about who exactly owns the part of the Pacific Ocean.
LONDON: President Donald Trump's closest adviser thinks the US will fight a war with China in the next five to 10 years over the strategic South China Sea claimed by the Communist giant, British media reported.
"We're going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years, aren't we?" Steve Bannon, a far-right figure, who has been given unprecedented power in the White House Bannon said on his radio show in March 2016.
He said suggested that the US and China are headed towards war over the South China Sea.
"There's no doubt about that. They're taking their sandbars and making basically stationary aircraft carriers and putting missiles on those. They come here to the United States in front of our face -- and you understand how important face is -- and say it's an ancient territorial sea," the Independent quoted him as saying.
Tensions between the China and the US and Japan, as well as other countries, have increased in recent years over a dispute about who exactly owns the part of the Pacific Ocean.
China says nearly the entire South China Sea falls within its territory, with half a dozen other countries maintaining partially overlapping claims.
http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2017/02/us-china-may-fight-war-over-south-china.html