{"id":44222,"date":"2019-03-05T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44222"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:26:04","slug":"mike-pompeos-war-warning-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44222","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo\u2019s War Warning to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/001-war-pb231.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Pompeo's War Warning to China\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buchanan.org\/blog\/mike-pompeos-war-warning-to-china-136609\">Mike Pompeo\u2019s War Warning to China<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Could America sustain such a commitment? More important, why should we? Has the White House thought through the implications of what the Pompeo threat may bring?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there the Secretary of State made a startling declaration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any armed attack by China on a Philippine ship or plane in the South China Sea, he told the Philippine government, will be treated as an attack on an American ship or plane, bringing a U.S. military response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina\u2019s island building and military activities in the South China Sea threaten your sovereignty, security and, therefore, economic livelihood, as well as that of the United States,\u201d said Pompeo. \u201cAs the South China Sea is part of the Pacific, any armed attack on Philippine forces, aircraft or public vessels in the South China Sea will trigger mutual defense obligations under article 4 of our mutual defense treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Article 4 requires the U.S. and the Philippines to come to the defense of the other if one is attacked. The treaty dates back to August 1951. There are Americans on Social Security who were not born when this Cold War treaty was signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pompeo\u2019s declaration amounts to a U.S. war guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why would we make such a commitment? Why take such a risk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is Trump aware of what Pompeo\u2019s promise could entail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have something to say about this column?<br>Visit Pat\u2019s FaceBook page&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PatrickJosephBuchanan\">and post your comments\u2026.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, Beijing has claimed as national territory virtually the entire South China Sea. Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and the Philippines all reject China\u2019s claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands within that sea. But Beijing has occupied and expanded half a dozen islets; landed planes and troops; and fortified them as military and naval bases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pompeo\u2019s War Warning to China Could America sustain such a commitment? More important, why should we? Has the White House thought through the implications of what the Pompeo threat may bring? As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2045,130,7844,8312,14065,1439,862],"class_list":["post-44222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-patrick-j-buchanan","tag-south-china-sea","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44223,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44222\/revisions\/44223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}