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China blames Canada for ‘malicious, provocative’ moves after close midair intercepts over South China Sea

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China blames Canada for ‘malicious, provocative’ moves after close midair intercepts over South China Sea | CNN

China has accused Canada of carrying out “malicious and provocative” actions in the South China Sea, after the Canadian Navy said Chinese fighter jets endangered a helicopter in two close intercepts above international waters.

The comments come after CNN revealed last week that a Chinese warplane fired flares in front of a Canadian military helicopter on October 29, an operation that Canadian military officers said was reckless and could have resulted in the downing of the aircraft.

The incident was the second of two “unsafe” encounters the Canadian chopper had on that day with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy J-11 fighters, which got as close as 100 feet (30 meters) from the helicopter, Maj. Rob Millen, air officer aboard the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ottawa, told CNN in an interview on the warship.

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China has been fucking around for a while now. One of these times they’re going to step over that line and start something they wish they hadn’t.
- I kinda hope they do and the US decides it's had enough and declares war and launches the fleets to force Xi to apologise or get him ousted by the rest of the party. Obviously don't want a real war, just real looking enough to freak out the CCP into backing down.
  
  The outcome of that would more likely be war than a restructure of Chinese government.
  And such a war would certainly make WWII look like babies at play.
Hey China, how about you stop being malicious and provacative in the SCS?
- Bro they're just defending their sovereignty bro. It's totally their waters even though it's international waters, and did you see how dangerous those fishermen vessels were to their national security??? /s
  They were seen favorably by the Western Left, but then they started to pull shit like this. They have somehow managed to align both Democrats and Republicans against them, which is fucking impressive. They continue to recklessly fuck around, and I don't think their economy is in a state to find out.
- Can you hear yourself? It’s the South CHINA Sea. Not the South Canadian Sea.
  
  That's one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. It's international waters.
  Does the Gulf of Mexico belong solely to Mexico? Does the Black Sea belong to black people?
  
  Dude, its just the name of the sea
  
  Did you mean the south of China sea?
  
  Its the SAS south Asia sea actually China dissent own it
They're playing a very dangerous game. And they know it too, with how they're projecting in their statements.
They're trying to claim international waters as their own. Flagrantly. If they're going to ignore internationally agreed upon borders, they shouldn't be surprised when everyone laughs at their claims of sovereignty.
Ah yes, when I think “Canada” I think “malicious and provocative”
- Hey man if you had to live above a meth lab eventually you'd crack too.
  
  What if…what if I live in the meth lab?
- Canada isn't sorry anymore.
  
  That sounds like a really awesome tag line for the Captain Canada movie
- It is known that no Canadian ever did a bad thing.
- I blame the geese
  
  It’s always the geese
- Depends on the government at the time. If we had Conservatives in charge federally you definitely should think malicious. We had ten years of living under a dictator before our current minority government.
Can we change the name of the SCS already? What could trigger the Chinese government the most?
Tianamen sea? Mongolia was here sea? Taiwan (no sea, just Taiwan)?
- ~~ASA~~ SAS - South Asian Sea It's inclusive of all territories and still pisses off China.
  
  I think this is the best option, i dont want to piss the Chinese people but just the Chinese government and this could fall specifically in that space
  
  SAS?
- West Tawanese Channel
- Greater Vietnamese Sea!
- Taiwanese mine storage area.
What's up with Russia and china's shitty pilots? One of these days, one of those morons is going to stall their fighter or miscalculate and crash into the sea, and the international vessel they're harassing is going to have to pick them up. Fucking idiots.
- They want provocation from the west, if they do dangerous shit that might endanger Canadian/US/whoever vessels then we might be forced to retaliate in order to prevent an accident that could put sailors/marines at risk.
America no!!
America : I'm over here...
Sorry, force of habit, Canada Noooo!
All these little maneuvers remind me of the classic bully who pulls his punch at the last second trying to get you to flinch.
Oh, are the hostage diplomacists upset?
Too fucking bad.
They should have send an air balloon instead...
I think I'm old enough to realize none of this matters.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The incident was the second of two “unsafe” encounters the Canadian chopper had on that day with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy J-11 fighters, which got as close as 100 feet (30 meters) from the helicopter, Maj.
Rob Millen, air officer aboard the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Ottawa, told CNN in an interview on the warship.
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair briefed reporters on the incidents later Friday, saying the Chinese jets’ actions were deemed to be “significantly unsafe” and put “the safety of all personnel involved in unnecessary risk.”
“China’s People’s Liberation Army organized naval and air forces to conduct identification, verification in accordance with the law and issued multiple warnings.
Since 2014 Beijing has built up tiny reefs and sandbars into artificial islands heavily fortified with missiles, runways and weapons systems – sparking outcry from the other claimants.
That incident was recorded by news crews aboard the Canadian aircraft and witnessed by Maj. Gen. Iain Huddleston, the commander of Canada’s 1st Air Division, who was also on the plane.
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Why did China surround itself with so many U.S. bases?
Daily reminder that Western media reports on this to make you fear/hate China.
The US Mainstream Media Beats the China War Drums
- Daily response that China’s still doing it, regardless of why it’s being reported.
  
  Media spread fear, Americans listen
- Man the worst part of lemmy is all the absolutely brain dead China apologists, you people are a cancer spreading bullshit propaganda. Fuck off loser.
  
  I've spent two weeks blocking all the tankie instances and users as they show up, and Lemmy is now starting to look a lot better. The nice thing about lemmy being smaller is that blocking out the brain dead takes is an actually achievable task
  
  I’m not apologizing for China, I’m just critical of American media. I remember the Cold War, I’m in no hurry to go through that again. Why can’t we be on friendly terms with China?

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