[Outcast_Searcher]

US has to start responding to these "tests" from various "adversaries."

And, how do we do that, while we're focused on the liberal agenda of ensuring people can lie on the couch all day, doing nothing, but receive plenty of federal benefits? (An agenda you seem to identify with, from what I've seen in your posts, overall).

There are not infinite resources.

Should it be guns, or butter for the takers?

As long as a liberal like Obama continues to expand redistributionist programs which discourage productivity in the US as rapidly as possible -- I wouldn't count on US military power doing much more than parades and Obama approved droning of entities he doesn't like.

After all - China is our banker. Who do we borrow from if we stand up to them?

[Graeme]

Vietnam Prepares Suit Against China in Spat Over Oil Rig

Vietnam has prepared evidence for a legal suit challenging China’s claim to waters off the Vietnamese coast and is considering the best time to file it, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday in an interview.

“We are prepared and ready for legal action,” Dung said, sitting in the prime minister’s compound in Hanoi in front of a bronze bust of Ho Chi Minh, the founder of communist Vietnam. “We are considering the most appropriate timing to take this measure.”

Dung, 64, spoke four days after a Vietnamese fishing boat sank in a collision with a Chinese ship in an area near the disputed Paracel Islands where China has placed an oil rig. A legal filing would follow a case against China submitted by the Philippines to a United Nations’ court over contested shoals off its coast.

businessweek