CHINA WAVES WAR FLAG

With all of the news breaking yesterday about Egypt Airlines, the shooting at the White House, Clinton calling Trump "unqualified" to be in the White House and the NRA endorsement of Trump for president, this  more ominous bit of news almost got lost in the shuffle: China is warning the U.S. to "stand down" its military presence in the South China Sea or to risk war.   

"The Chinese people do not want to have war, so we will be opposed to the U.S. if it stirs up any conflict," said Liu Zhenmin, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They go on to say they are ready to engage in a repeat of the Korean or the Vietnamese War if they have to. 

The Spratly Islands are coral reefs in international waters of the South China Sea; China has been claiming sovereign ownership of the entire South China Sea for decades and has been consistently overruled by the United Nations.  Now, China has been building the islands up with the addition of sand and has turned at least one of them into an armed fortress with a military air base.  China has recently reasserted its claim to 1.4 million square miles of the area, to which the United States and other nations object.  The sea is a vital trading route between the Philippines, Japan and Malaysia and is of strategic military value.  

China has the largest standing army in the world - more than two million soldiers - and it has been building up its naval and air capability in recent years, while the U.S. military has been virtually decimated under the Obama regime.  

Sorry to bother you on the golf course, Mr. President, but what's your next move... a campaign trip to Vegas?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.