TRUMP & CSIS Targeting South China Sea For Oil & Gas

Distractions are rampant – but they help alleviate the attention on Midterms as Trump controls Dominion Voting Systems. A Tit-For-Tat enterprise that will likely wreak with fraud.  As we focus nearly exclusively on Iran and the Strait blockade, CSIS is building a maritime case against China in the South China Sea. As such, the US Coast Guard recently deployed 6 fast response cutters out of Singapore and the Philippines.  These crafts are sent to deter Chinese harassment and interference with the navigation and economic activity of its neighbors.  Translation: The US is meddling with China in the South China Sea – a distance of approximately 9800 miles from the US.

The Philippines is front and center attempting to make unlawful territorial claims. “According to the ‘land dominates the sea’ principle in international law, the Philippines’ claim of so-called maritime jurisdiction over China’s territory is illegal.  This back and forth between the Philippines and various island masses in the Sea has been ongoing for a number of years. 

The current president of the Philippines is BongBong Marcus son of Imelda and Ferdinand who were exiled and fled to Hawaii amidst various criminal charges.  The People Power Revolution was fueled by Marcos dictatorship and was won peacefully with assistance from the Catholic Church, civilians, defected military soldiers and militias. It ushered in Maria Corazun as President who had led the Revolution. Her husband had been assassinated 3 years prior ostensibly a hired hit by Marcos.

In 2016, Deterte was elected President and shifted relations and policies, combatting the drug trade and extending relations with Russia and China.  In the US, this shift was considered a death sentence.  Deterte adopted conciliatory stance towards China and set aside previous claims over the South China Sea and its islands. He made friends with his neighbors and relied on their cooperation and sovereign unity. At the end of his term in 2022, Marcos, the son of Imelda, the shoe lady, won the presidential election.

The election was mired in massive claims of fraud, with the US FBI central. After the Marcos family were exiled and fled to the US, they lived at Hickam Air Force Base before moving to a residence in Makiki Heights, Honolulu.  It appears, the family was initiated into the Club given after Marcos massive election win he returned to Hawaii to give a speech to military leaders including Admiral John Aquilino. 

 In that speech, Marcos focused on two main priorities between the US and Philippines:  a vow to focus on innovation and emerging technology.  Concerns about rising tensions in the South China Sea stating, “the Philippines will not give a single square inch of our territory to any foreign power.”

In other words Marcos disavowed the relations of Russia and China in favor of the US and inked a nuclear deal with the US while expanding US military bases on the island nation all of which was announced as he spoke to a room full of military officials. Thus pronouncing his country as fodder for a possible conflict with China.  Reminds me of the Shah and Reza at the Israeli Wall.

In exchange for Marcos pledge to the US of Israel, the reparations debt of $2 BILLION owed to the Filipino, it was marked ‘filled’. It is estimated the Marcos Family wealth to be upwards of $13 BILLION.

Now, with the South China Sea a shipping target of the West, Marcos has sold his soul. And the US is prodding a China conflict to secure it’s global dominance.  What does the US want in the Sea?  Oil. Black Gold. Trump is obsessed per his own admission.

In 2013 an Arbitration Proceeding by the UN over the feud was finalized in 2016 siding with the Philippines.  The legal advisors for the Philippines included: Paul Reichler, Andrew Lowenstein, Lawrence Martin and Foley Hoag.  All attorneys from the US.

The ruling claimed the Islands are not islands but low tide elevations. The UN claimed that China was causing significant environmental damage in its artificial building or extension of the islands. A claim that was never brought against its predecessors…  The Tribunal determined that Philippine fishing and their exploration for oil in the Sea was lawful.  By contrast, China never participated in the Arbitration in any manner rejecting its interference as illegal. 

For decades, Vietnam and the Philippines were actively building and expanding islands.  That changed after the Tribunal with China advancing and overtaking their territorial claims.

Now the US Navy is patrolling the seas harassing and intimidating – China. A sea that hosts global trade valued at $3.36 Trillion. After the Spanish-American War wherein Spain lost and ceded the territory of the Philippines to the US through the 1898 Treaty of Paris, it provided maps as annexes. The map shows that the treaty’s definition of Philippine territory did not include Scarborough Shoal and the Spratlys – as argued by the Tribunal.

In 1930 under FDR, the UK and US unilaterally created a treaty without China involved claiming the islands belonged to the Philippines which at that point was a US colony. It becomes even more convoluted!  Japan used the islands as war grounds against the US in WWII. At the time Taiwan was also under Japanese control. Control does NOT equal Ownership. In fact, Taiwan was given to China by the US and WWII allies because they saw no beneficial value. That is – until Taiwan began building its Chips manufacturing while under Chinese control.

Value = Changing The Guard.

Suddenly, the US creates an ACT claiming Taiwan is their property and supports the claims of The Philippines in reimagining the islands and therefore their 20 mile shoreline under international law belongs to them – despite those islands being designated NOT islands by the UN and US.  Fisheries?  Nah. GAS & OIL

The South China Sea is estimated by the US Energy Agency to hold 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas of discovered reserves with an additional 160 trillion cubic feet of natural gas undiscovered and 12 billion barrels of oil.  The Trump Effect. STEAL.

Imagine Trump’s Response should China close the Sea to US SHIPPING?