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If Chinese sent aircraft carriers 20 miles of Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure USA would react very harsh.
by tut-urut-utut 5y ago
If Chinese sent aircraft carriers 20 miles of Los Angeles, I'm pretty sure USA would react very harsh.
- marvin 5y agoWouldn’t that be 230 miles, or are there distinct international agreements that put China’s territorial borders eleven times closer their shores than other countries with a coastline?
- jessaustin 5y agoChina's land border with Vietnam terminates at the shore of this sea, so of course in that area the "territorial waters" don't extend so far. It's the same as e.g. Canadian waters located right next to USA. In addition, China and Philippines are separated by about 400 miles at their closest points, so that would curtail a 230 mile perimeter for at least one of those nations.
- quench 5y agoInternational waters are 24 Nautical miles Exclusive economic zone is 200 Nautical miles So it would be ok (in theory) to have a warship 25 miles off the coast provided it wasn't fishing or drilling for oil
- count 5y agoThe Russians did/do this all the time, although mostly on the East Coast. There wasn't any reaction until they started moving missiles to Cuba though...
- tut-urut-utut 5y agoTo cite Kennedy: “Are those Russians crazy? Putting missiles in Cuba is the same as if we put our missiles in Turkey”. “But Mr. President, we already have our missiles in Turkey”. Nowadays those missiles are much closer to Moscow than ever before.