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> Gaza has a sizable coastline, and China has a large number of amphibious assault ships available. They can defend themselves against Israel air attacks. Chin
by mschuster91 3y ago
> Gaza has a sizable coastline, and China has a large number of amphibious assault ships available. They can defend themselves against Israel air attacks.
Chinese warships will never be allowed anywhere near the Mediterranean in the first place - if there is one thing that even the split US Congress will agree on, it is that China already has too much influence and that they need to be stopped.
Additionally, China's army hasn't seen actual combat in a loooong time. It's likely that their army is in just as bad of a shape as Russia's is, and getting that demonstrated on the world stage before they have a chance to snack a piece or the whole of Taiwan would be pretty foolish.
- muchosandwich 3y agoChina has been skirmishing with India pretty recently
- rightbyte 3y ago> Chinese warships will never be allowed anywhere near the Mediterranean in the first place There have been Chinese navy visits to the Mediterranean. You can sail in on international water. (Edit: Nope, it's to narrow) "Chinese naval ships visit Morocco" http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_209163/Exchanges/News_209188/7922876.html?&tsrahlayfdf http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_209163/Exchanges/News_20918...
- dang 3y agoPlease make your substantive points without snark or swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rightbyte 3y agoYe sorry, edited.
- tomp 3y agoCasablanca is Atlantic, not Mediterranean. You cannot get into the Mediterranean without passing through territorial waters.
- rightbyte 3y agoOk the Strait of Gibraltar was way narrower than I thought it would be and I mixed up the location of Marocco and Tunisia ... Grabbing for straws: "Chinese naval escort taskforce visits Tunisia" http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_209163/TopStories_209189/7913541.html http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_209163/TopStories_209189/79...
- DDSDev 3y agoWhile what you are saying is technically true, Chinese ships would be allowed to exercise their right of Transit Passage under UNCLOS through the Strait of Gibraltar.
- InTheArena 3y agoChina is not a signatory of the UNCLOS. See the south china see debacle for an easy answer as to why.
- maxglute 3y ago[flagged]
- DDSDev 3y agoTo my knowledge, China is a signatory to UNCLOS, but has disputes around it's "islands" in the South China Sea and their relation to the EEZ. I acknowledge that China's relationship to UNCLOS, as a minimum, is complicated and rapidly evolving, but I dispute that they do not have a right to transit passage. Or to be more specific, I would put forward that they would have a plausible argument to claim transit passage. The United States has not ratified UNCLOS, and regularly claims the right of Transit Passage. In fact, this fact is one of the reasons why Iran claims that the United States cannot enter into Iranian TTW while making a Strait of Hormuz transit - because the US has not ratified UNCLOS, their claim is that the US cannot claim transit passage. For the United States (or any Western Nation) to make the claim that China cannot claim Transit Passage would lend weight to Iran's argument, which you can imagine, they would not want to do. I do not want to make any assumptions around your specific views on this matter - you may hold the opinion that China could not claim transit passage, however I wanted to interject some perspective that: 1. That may not be universally agreed upon 2. Specifically, the United States and it's allies may not make that argument because it would put them in a negative position for other international disputes.