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Titolo: Philippine president compares China's expansion to Nazi Germany

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10618722/Philippine-president-compares-Chinas-expansion-to-Nazi-Germany.html
 
 
Philippine president compares China's expansion to Nazi Germany
Benigno Aquino warns West must not attempt to appease China as it did 
Hitler but presidential palace later says comments were not intended to 
'offend' Beijing
 
By Tom Phillips, Shanghai 9:20AM GMT 05 Feb 2014
 
The West’s failure to confront China over its increasingly vocal 
territorial ambitions is similar to the disastrous appeasement of Adolf 
Hitler in the late 1930s, the Philippine president has claimed.
In comments that are likely to receive a furious reception in Beijing, 
Benigno Aquino, the Philippine leader, told The New York Times he 
believed it was time for the West to tell China “enough is enough.”
The Philippines is one of several Asian countries - including Japan, 
Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia - that is locked into acrimonious 
territorial disputes with Beijing.
Manila disputes the sovereignty of a series of shoals, islands and 
waters in an area it calls the West Philippine Sea and Beijing calls the 
South China Sea.
Meanwhile, the long-running dispute between Japan and China over the 
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea exploded again last 
November after China declared a controversial "air defence 
identification zone" that included the skies over that area.
 
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Aquino compared his country’s plight to that of 
Czechoslovakia in the lead up to World War II.
In 1938, part of Czechoslovakia was handed to Hitler after he assured 
Neville Chamberlain, Britain’s prime minister, that his troops would not 
invade the rest of the country in exchange for the Sudetenland.
However, having taken control of the Sudetenland, Hitler invaded the 
rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
“If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is 
there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?” the 
Philippine president said during a 90-minute interview with the American 
newspaper.
“At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough?’ Well, the world has to 
say it. Remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease 
Hitler to prevent World War II,” added Mr Aquino, who was elected in 2010.
Apparently referring to China, the president later said: “You may have 
the might but that does not necessarily make you right.”
On Wednesday, Manila sought to play down the president’s comments, 
claiming he had not intended to “offend” Beijing or “add fuel to the fire”.
“Aquino was not directly comparing China to Hitler, who was infamous for 
causing the deaths of millions of people,” Herminio Coloma, the 
presidential communications secretary, was quoted as saying by the 
Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper.
“The President was merely answering a question with a historical fact,” 
Mr Coloma added.
Still, Mr Aquino’s comments reflect a growing nervousness and anger in 
parts of east and southeast Asia over what is seen as China’s increasing 
willingness to flex its rapidly growing military might.
China will pump around £90 billion into its armed forces this year as 
part of a major overhaul that would see its military spending eclipse 
the combined budgets of Britain, France and Germany, defence consultancy 
IHS Jane’s predicted this week.
Since the start of this year China and Japan have engaged in a new round 
of diplomatic sparring, with ambassadors from both countries borrowing 
from the work of J.K. Rowling to label their rival Asia’s “Voldemort”.
Tensions grew at January’s World Economic Forum in Davos when Shinzo 
Abe, the Japanese prime minister, reportedly said that the two countries 
were now in a “similar situation” to Britain and Germany on the eve of 
World War I.
Despite enjoying strong economic ties - as the two European powers did 
in the early 20th century - a catastrophic breakdown in relations was 
possible, Mr Abe hinted.
Beijing dismissed those comments as an attempt to hide “Japan’s history 
of aggression.”
China is currently in shutdown for its 7-day “Spring Festival” holidays 
and there was no immediate response from Beijing to Mr Aquino’s comments.

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figurati tutto il resto, il mar cinese meridionale è ben lontano da ogni 
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