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This resolution really only has teeth so far as the US Navy is ready and able to enforce it.
by douche 10y ago
This resolution really only has teeth so far as the US Navy is ready and able to enforce it.
- adventured 10y agoThe huge benefit to this ruling is precedent and credibility. Laying down a trail of rulings against China around the globe, that will facilitate cohesive economic sanctions against them if they attempt to enforce their bogus claims to the waters. One country attempting to sanction China would fail, and China would and could easily retaliate. If most of the developed world signs on to sanctions for their attempts to annex territory ala Russia with Ukraine (except this is dramatically larger), then it will stick. An easy example would be to throw China back out of the WTO, dump their currency / refuse to promote it any higher as a reserve, actually enforce consequences on their dumping practices and other economic misdeeds, and so on.
- jpmoral 10y agoThey are already enforcing their bogus claims.
- ourmandave 10y agoThat's a problem. We don't usually intervene directly against other nuclear armed nations. It's all done through proxies. Who is going to be our proxy navy?
- restalis 10y agoThe armed fleet of Philippian "fishermen".
- netheril96 10y agoBut how does US has standing?
- ende 10y agoThis isn't civil court. All international law is a theatre masking anarchy between nation states. The distribution of justice it provides is roughly proportional to the relative strength and willingness of its participants.