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They didn’t upheld navigable seas for everyone. Sanctions are a thing. They upheld the seas for anyone that wanted to join and play by its rules.

• nixon_why69 5mo ago
  Slightly separate issues. We didn't interdict Iranian tankers at sea until very recently, despite the sanctions. But we are doing it now, of course. That said, China has a long record of doing business with anyone and avoiding ideological conflict on all issues except for specifically Taiwan. They did business with Pinochet's Argentina in the 80s, while Argentina was throwing socialists out of helicopters and China was still fully communist. Unless you're a pure American forpol shill, there's no reason to suspect they'd restrict free passage in their area.
  • actionfromafar 5mo ago
    I expect China to do sanctions on anyone doing business with Taiwan.
    • nixon_why69 5mo ago
      They've had 75 years to prove you right, and so far they haven't.
      • big_youth 5mo ago
        They didn't really become a global power until recently. Even during my youth in the 2000's it was 'China is rising', 75 years ago they were extremely poor, mostly agrarian and recovering from decades of war and revolution. 2026 China is a completely different beast.
  • zbentley 5mo ago
    > China has a long record of doing business with anyone and avoiding ideological conflict on all issues except for specifically Taiwan ...and Tibet, North Korea, Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, Aksai Chin/Arunachal Pradesh, and others.