Pentagon repeats call for China to end island building, seeks more military contact

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on Thursday and repeated a U.S. call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea while stressing that the Pentagon remained committed to expanding military contacts with China.

In the meeting with General Fan Changlong, a deputy head of China's powerful Central Military Commission, Carter stressed his commitment to developing "a sustained and substantive U.S.-China military-to-military relationship," the Pentagon said.

It said this would be based on a shared desire to deepen cooperation in areas, including humanitarian assistance, disaster response, peacekeeping, counter-piracy, as well as "constructive management of differences".

In reiterating U.S. concerns about tensions in the South China Sea, Carter called on China and all rival claimants to halt land reclamation and militarization of disputed territory, and to pursue a peaceful resolution in accordance with international law, the Pentagon statement said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-repeats-call-china-end-island-building-seeks-232430001.html

[alboe]

1. The tension between U.S. and China continues

Where it stops, nobody knows.

[7962]

2. China is just like russia; they wont stop till they have what they want

and they dont believe anyone will stop them either

[davidpdx]

5. I agree

And as I've said before I believe China wants to turn the ocean into one big toll booth. Once they control the ocean every country is screwed.

[bemildred]

3. Well, they are both talking nice now, that's good. nt

[bananas]

4. Pentagon should end island destruction

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1503/S00158/hold-the-pentagon-responsible-for-destroying-mother-earth.htm

Hold the Pentagon Responsible for Destroying Mother Earth
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 11:24 am
Press Release: National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance

Earth Day 2015: Hold the Pentagon Responsible for Destroying Mother Earth

The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) is organizing an action on Earth Day to call for an end to the destruction of our planet by the United States Military. In Greenwashing the Pentagon Joseph Nevins states, “The U.S. military is the world’s single biggest consumer of fossil fuels, and the single entity most responsible for destabilizing the Earth’s climate.”

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Because the United States has hundreds of military bases here and abroad, the Pentagon is exacerbating a growing environmental crisis on a global scale. For example, the construction of a US Naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea threatens the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. According to an article in The Nation "On the island of Jeju, the consequences of the Pacific Pivot are cataclysmic. The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, adjacent to the proposed military port, would be traversed by aircraft carriers and contaminated by other military ships. Base activity would wipe out one of the most spectacular remaining soft-coral forests in the world. It would kill Korea’s last pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins and contaminate some of the purest, most abundant spring water on the planet. It would also destroy the habitats of thousands of species of plants and animals—many of which, such as the narrow-mouthed frog and the red-footed crab, are gravely endangered already. Indigenous, sustainable livelihoods—including oyster diving and local farming methods that have thrived for thousands of years—would cease to exist, and many fear that traditional village life would be sacrificed to bars, restaurants and brothels for military personnel." http://www.thenation.com/article/171767/front-lines-new-pacific-war

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[bemildred]

6. +1.

Yeah.