The sabre-rattling is happening on all sides. The thing is the Chinese actually have some sabres whereas the UK has a couple of pen knives and a soup ladle. The US have plenty of sabres but they generally rattle them too late in the wrong direction. An example of this was the Trump administration with North Korea, who keep saying that they definitely have a sabre. The Korean sabre is almost certainly not a very good one. It makes a lot of noise when it’s rattled but it’s also likely that the blade will fall off. As for the Australians, they have some sabres on their wish list and they say that they will almost certainly rattle them when they arrive in about 10 years time. Up until then, they will just tell the Chinese that they are cross and see if that works.

You love arguing over semantics, don't you. Whether you want to call it a "base" is up to you. It's all that we have there now permanently, and it's at Sembawang. I saw it with my own eyes when I went to the Terror Club, which is now a facility run by the US forces.

I didn't say the bunkering was done by our personnel! I said they organised it. Which they do. Not just for British ships, but for those of our allies.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Direct link to the Royal Navy.
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Our presence is not huge however its there, also numbers go up and numbers go down, it depends very much on what British ships dock there.

I would imagine in coming years we'll see a swelling of our numbers in the region.

Wisbech is 100% spot on with his post.

As for the wiki link you can type 'white monkey' & china into google and get pretty much an unlimited amount of links to what im talking about, wiki was conveniently at the top.
Actually a complete coincedence but this popped up on my youtube feed today, wait for the bit where her Belgian husband starts talking about china, honestly come back here & tell me thats normal behaviour.
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The ccp do love a honey trap...

As you know the ccp rarely release info directly instead they opt to put information out via their state media, if it comes from chinese media its a sure bet its been approved from the top.
I guess its just the chinese way of calling people useful idiots except a little more derogatory as said people are reduced to monkeys.

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The mountains are calling & I must go.

I am not running the country down at all.

What you call semantics are called details.

If people on here want to post predictions of what is going to happen militarily in the part of the world where I live then being accurate has importance, at least to me.

Edited by HKOwen (20 Sep 2021 11.59pm)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Are you suggesting the wife of the Belgian guy was some kind of CCP setup? Honey trap?

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Here is the EU trying to bully Australia. Let's spell two things out for our pro China and EU brainwashed posters.
Australia will tell them where exactly to stick it.
The deal is cancelled because France couldn't and wouldn't deliver on time.

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Red and Blue Army!