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Why are you assuming that the poster is hinting at China when his comment didn't mention the country?
by logicalmonster 4y ago
Why are you assuming that the poster is hinting at China when his comment didn't mention the country?
- jjk166 4y agoHow many states are there with access to pacific waters that could potentially have thousands of unregistered fishing vessels and whom a poster would be uncomfortable naming explicitly for fear of backlash?
- logicalmonster 4y agoSeems odd that this is a logical guess, but then that's labelled as "xenophobic speculation".
- jjk166 4y agoIt's a logical guess that the only country that could have thousands of unregistered ships would be china, one of the worlds leading industrial powers with a large pacific coastline. It's xenophobic speculation that china does in fact have these ships and specifically are the cause of this population collapsing.
- samatman 4y agoThis is widely known, just not to you. Calling names won't change that.
- NSMutableSet 4y agoJapan's pacific coastline is twice as large as China's. Your logic here is extremely faulty.
- heavyset_go 4y agoJapan engages in illegal fishing all over the Pacific.
- virgildotcodes 4y agoIt's kind of an obvious dog whistle, come on.
- dmix 4y agoPortuguese fisherman were the big thing off the coast of Canada. Definitely not unique to China, although they seem to use fishing boats as a political tool like Russia uses little green men. But that's closer to their shores.
- outworlder 4y agoIf the shoe fits...
- vore 4y agoTell me what other country the OP could possibly mean when they said "countries I dare not to list for being downvoted".
- logicalmonster 4y agoChina seems like a logical guess, but that statement could describe Israel or other countries that have very passionate supporters as well.
- josegonzalez 4y agoI don't think it could mean Israel given that we're talking about the Bering Strait and not the Mediterranean or Red Sea.
- fwip 4y agoSure, if you think Israel is well known for overfishing in the Pacific Ocean?
- woodruffw 4y agoChina has been the subject of multiple high-profile news stories (and popular HN threads) about overfishing. They’re also the standard xenophobic bugbear on HN.