This is John Bachelor, conversation with James Vanel, U.S. Navy Captain Intelligence retired,

about the Chinese threat and actions in the South China Sea against the Philippines,

against the Philippine military, and also

about the deployment of Chinese warships in the South China Sea aim to

intimidate the Philippines and anyone who comes to the Philippines aid. This is Captain James

Finel explaining the situation in these last hours and underlining the fact that

this situation can very easily get out of hand, if not already out of hand.

Here's James Finel, more of this tonight.

A week they also on the 7th of June disrupted a resupply where they actually threw supplies, food and water that were intended for the sailors on board the grounded ship Sierra Madre that's been there for 25 years.

They threw some of that into the ocean.

So China is going full bore to essentially tell the Philippines,

we are going to prevent you from resupplying that ship the Sierra Madre which you've been doing and

we're going to use our law, our internal laws to justify what we're doing and that law if you look at it

it doesn't discount that they could

stop foreign warships so we haven't seen them do that yet but it's possible that they

may try to take a Filipino warship I don't think that they would try that with the

United States but anyway the situation

right now is is very very tense and it's it's quite possible that China may use

military force and I forgot to add they have an armada of

amphibious warships that just arrived on the 15th well the last week and then up

through the 15th three type 055 12,000 ton heavy cruisers each with

112 vertical launch system cells that can launch an array of anti airair, anti-ship cruise missiles.

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