China said it was “deeply concerned” on Wednesday
about a reported U.S. proposal to consider sending naval ships and aircraft
toward man-made islands in the South China Sea as tensions escalate between the
two nations over the vital waters. The Obama administration has looked on with
mounting frustration in recent months as China has undertaken a vast program of
land reclamation in the South China Sea, turning rocks and submerged reefs into
islands capable of supporting airstrips and military facilities across some of
the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
The fear, expressed by President Obama last month,
is that China is using its “muscle” to bully smaller nations into accepting its
sovereignty over disputed waters. But a volley of verbal protests from the
United States has fallen on deaf ears, and administration officials have been
agonizing over how to rein China in without escalating military tensions to
dangerous levels, experts say. May 13 http://wapo.st/1E7wJni
This news
comes to us on the eve of a powerful Mars-Saturn opposition. A chart drawn for the event at the midpoint
between Beijing and Washington has the opposition placed on the horizon
implying that its energies were going to be significant in Sino-US relationship
in the current period. Reinhold Ebertin gives us the following key phrases for
the combination which sum up the news perfectly:
Mars-Saturn
Periods of
impotence and weakness alternating with periods of brutal or ruthless progress.
All will directed activity meets complete resistance. Tests of strength, disputes
and separations.
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