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> China is surrounded by foes on its coast. This is why it works so hard to expand its territorial waters. I would argue the exact opposite. China works so har
by davidjytang 5y ago
> China is surrounded by foes on its coast. This is why it works so hard to expand its territorial waters.
I would argue the exact opposite. China works so hard to expand its territorial waters. This is why China is surrounded by foes on its coast.
- rich_sasha 5y agoThat’s true too. As you expand your buffer, somewhere else becomes the frontier that needs a buffer of its own.
- BelenusMordred 5y agoSilly to ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fish and oil that everyone in the region is staking a claim to in the South China Sea. Absolutely no one cared in the slightest about it up until vast tracts of oil were discovered and fishing rights in the region started to actually be enforced by militaries.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoOr maybe it's the other way? "Oil" is thrown around to get Western "intellectuals" interested..? Maybe China wasn't strong all these years and they were biding their time? "The threat came from this direction last time. We need to secure this frontier" is convincing enough for me.
- T-A 5y agohttps://cimsec.org/chinas-claim-spratly-islands-just-mistake/ https://cimsec.org/chinas-claim-spratly-islands-just-mistake...
- apexalpha 5y agoSouth Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philipines and other were already firmly under the American umbrella before China expanded it's territorial waters.
- calyth2018 5y agoThe policy of containment of Communism, against Soviet Union, and China, has been around a lot longer than China's territorial waters activity.