Why is the South China Sea such an important area?

Q: Why is the South China Sea such an important area?

A:

It is important for freedom of navigation. The US has invested a lot by cruising the South China Sea with carrier fleets for a decade, to make world cargo ships safe to navigate. If those ships are worried about Houthi missiles, let them take the safe route of the South China Sea. I wonder why those ships let the US down by going through the Red Sea instead of the South China Sea. The US has provided them with a peaceful world order by policing the world. The South China Sea is safe and ready for the ships to navigate.

Actually, the Suez Canal and Malacca Strait are more important for freedom of navigation. What an idiot to protect freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and ignore the Houthi missiles in the Red Sea. What a waste of the US tax money on the freedom of navigation. What was the problem of navigation in the South China Sea last time? The USS Connecticut crashed with an unknown object. Does the USS Connecticut need the carrier fleets to safeguard its freedom of navigation? The USS Connecticut is not a cargo ship, nor an oil tanker. It was a nuclear submarine.

Maybe the US is not an idiot at all. It may be more smart than you know it. The so-called freedom of navigation is just an excuse for a hidden agenda. Think about it. The US was one of the Eight League that invaded China in 1900, and China never invaded the US. Since the invasion in 1900, the US harbored its navy in Shanghai and patrolled the Yangtze River until 1949. It is like a bandit who robbed your home before and now holding a machine gun hanging on at your front door claiming to protect the right of the public to use the walkway in front of your home.

The South China Sea was not important after WWII when Japan returned its occupation to China. The South China Sea became important after the discovery of oil and gas underneath the South China Sea in the 80s.

The South China Sea became more important after 2008 the Financial Tsunami. Obama began his Pivot to Asia. Why the fuzz?

The 2008 Financial Tsunami came from the 2007 sub-mortgage that happened in the US. The US is not the first time to have an economic crisis. Yet every economic crisis has benefited the US since WWII until 2008. Take the burst of the dot com bubble for example. It happened in the US, but Europe was the loser as the Kosovo War had driven the Eurodollar into the NASDAQ market so the burst of the dot com bubble sunk the Eurodollar into the US economy. Not to mention the Asian Financial Storm in 1998 and several debt crises in Latin America. Every economic crisis in the world becomes a sudden huge profit for Wall Street, regardless the crisis happened inside or outside the US.

From these experiences, the US was expecting the Chinese economy to be hit heavily by the 2008 Financial Tsunami and the US economy could have recovered in 2009. But that did not happen. So came the Asia pivot, which later became Rebanlance Pacific, and Indo-Pacific Strategy. The US pundits have since “predicted” China's collapse and cheered the “US strong economy” every year. It is not a prediction, nor a market analysis. It is the plan to fulfill the pundits’ prophecy. The plan is to incite a war between China and one of its neighbors. Dragging China into a war so the capital and wealth could flow from China into the US, to rescue the US economy from the 2008 Tsunami.

16 years has passed. China developed its economy, eradicated poverty, and built a network of high-speed railways. The US and its allies are in stagnation. The US had the technology and financial advantage in 2008, yet it did not use its advantage to develop its economy. Rather, it uses technology and financial advantage to incite chaos in the South China Sea.

The South China Sea is important because of the wrong, immoral, imperialist strategy of the US, aiming at lotting the wealth of China to enhance its economy and its hegemony.

According to Newton’s Law of Action and Reaction, when the US puts its military force mainly in the South China Sea, China has no choice but to increase its military strength in the region.

How much money and resources have been wasted in this rivalry between the US and China in the South China Sea with the escalation of military confrontation? The US should take the suggestion by China that their relationship should be based on no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation. If the US and China can cooperate, there will be peace and prosperity for both the US and China, and the world.