No, no, when I refer to "foreigners" I do not mean the Cornish, a charming if incomprehensible collection of far-west country men and women, and from whom I have returned in one piece but weighed down with a fairly large selection of Cornish pasties. One of the pleasures in visiting the Memsahib's family is that we get the chance to stop off in Tavistock, positively my favorite country town.
However, in my absence, the Chinese finally 'kicked off' on their long-term plan to turn the Pacific into a Chinese lake. I have things to do this morning but later on I will return to this fascinating and potentially deadly subject. What was a surprise was the very swift and determined response from the USA. I can only assume the White House and the State Department didn't know its bombers were scheduled to fly straight through this so-called 'air defence' part of the South China Sea. If he had known, it might - just - have put OBama off his game of golf!
More later . . .
