{"id":193,"date":"2014-07-20T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-08-11T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T16:08:52","slug":"not-gaza-or-ukraine-but-a-conflict-just-as-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/not-gaza-or-ukraine-but-a-conflict-just-as-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Gaza Or Ukraine, But a Conflict Just as Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Philippine soldier stands guard next to fishing boats (back) at a pier in Masinloc town, Zambales province, 230 kilometres (140 miles) from Scarborough Shoal on May 18, 2012, the conflict, a cold war of sorts, is still ongoing today with China invading waters of the Phillipines and Vietnam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not Gaza or Ukraine… but a conflict just as insane,
\nNo one counts bodies of fishermen who are drowned
\nWhen warships prevent them fishing their own waters
\nWhose islands contested between two nations themselves have found.<\/p>\n

These are working class people too…
\nProletariat, struggling from day to day…
\nChina is no great socialist liberating nation
\nWhen these fishermen from their fishing fields are driven away.<\/p>\n

Such greed, a greed for land, sea and power
\nIt is hard for non generals and politicians to understand
\nAs China tries to be Japan pre 1945
\nAnd up to America and the West as the strength of Asia to stand.<\/p>\n

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Not Gaza or Ukraine… but a conflict just as insane, No one counts bodies of fishermen who are drowned When warships prevent them fishing their own waters Whose islands contested between two nations themselves have found. These are working class people too… Proletariat, struggling from day to day… China is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[304,305,307],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","tag-china","tag-philippines-and-china","tag-phillipines","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-37","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/a-war-we-do-not-see\/","url_meta":{"origin":193,"position":0},"title":"A War We Do Not See","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Preoccupied with Gaza,a cold war in the Spratley islands where China pushes borders as Rissia is doing in Ukraine, bar on a martimime and not a land basis, is ignored by all, including the Irish left. 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