The Love Boat, she ain't:
A new Chinese cruise ship has embarked on its maiden voyage to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, the latest effort by Beijing to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway.
This is so familiar ...
Land, historically ours
Come Aboard. We're requesting you.
And Land, life's sweetest reward.
Let it go, it floats back to us.
The PLAN Boat soon will be making another run
The PLAN Boat promises something from everyone
Set course for the Paracels,
Your mind on a new conquest.
And land won't be yours anymore
It's our naval base on a friendly shore.
Its LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND! It's OURRRRRRRRRRRRRS! (hey-ah!)
Yeah, the PLAN Boat soon will be making another run
The PLAN Boat promises something from everyone
Set course for Senkakus,
Your mind on a new conquest.
And land won't be yours anymore
It's our naval base on a friendly shore.
It's LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND! It's OURRRRRRRRRRRRRS! It's
OURRRRRRRRRRRRRS!
It's the PLAN Boat-ah! It's the PLAN Boat-ah! ...
It's OURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS!!!!!!
UPDATE: Related news as China's mind is on a new conquest:
The members of the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force’s Western Area Infantry Regiment training in California are part of a fledgling force that will become the JGSDF first Amphibious Ready Deployment Brigade. That unit is tasked with creating a credible, ready force to conduct amphibious operations and defend its islands by next year.
“My challenge, I think, we are facing is the newly establishment of Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade in March 2018, and we don’t have much time,” Maj. Gen. Shigeo Kaida, the Western Army’s deputy chief of staff for operations, said in response to a question during a press conference Saturday that kicked off a three-day Iron Fist amphibious exercise.
Yes, a sense of urgency is called for. The PLAN Boat could soon make another run.
