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China Orders Militar to "Prepare for Combat (with United States) Over Hague Ruling on South China Sea
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(Editor's Note: The U.S. has never experienced a full blown, prolonged, nigtmarish depression, which will be the result of a war brought to our shores, and the people of this country are just not prepared…Things could get desperate and the masses will not like it… mass panic psychology is a wildcard at that point…The second wildcard is the global economy itself… anything, anywhere can trigger panic… you might have just opened a new business, taken on a mortgage, or just retired… and your reality can change for the worse in an instant… and you have no control over it. I am terrified that if Hillary Clinton gets elected, she will take the country to war with both China and Russia. And if she is elected, the people that voted for her will get exactly what they deserve. -JSB)

Chinese president Xi Jinping has ordered the People's Liberation Army to prepare for combat. This comes after an international tribunal on Tuesday issued an unfavorable ruling against China's claims over the South China Sea.  U.S.-based Boxun News said Tuesday that the instruction was given in case the United States takes provocative action in the waters once the ruling is made.

The U.S. and China have been expanding their military activities across the sea, stoking heavy tension between the two superpowers.

China controls roughly 90 percent of the South China Sea, a critical waterway that handles some five trillion U.S. dollars worth of trade every year.

The Philippines filed a suit to The Hague tribunal in 2013, accusing Beijing of seizing Scarborough Shoal, a fishing area that Manila claims is part of its exclusive economic zone.

It said China's extensive maritime claims don't conform to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which was ratified by both countries.

Since then, the country has stacked up 15 claims against China's vast territorial expansion.

China opposed the arbitration process.

It says it does not acknowledge the tribunal's jurisdiction, and will not accept its ruling.

The Hague's ruling on Tuesday is binding but the court lacks powers of enforcement.  Thus, enforcement falls to the countries who won the ruling and those countries are backed-up by the United States military.

The news media in Asia is buzzing with fears of combat between the US and China.  The story below is one example:

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