• cayde6ml
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    8 months ago

    This just in: China cooperating with other asian countries to set up defensive positions and listening outposts in the South CHINA Sea is somehow a bad thing.

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      8 months ago

      They’re not cooperating with the other Asian countries, those countries are angry with China for claiming their territory. China is cooperating with mainland countries to build road and rail networks through to the Middle East, but treats all the island countries with disdain, while building artificial islands close to their shores.

      Also, the sea is merely named after the large country in the area, many other countries are in the South China Sea - but that doesn’t mean they’re a part of China’s territory. The Indian Ocean is quite a long way from India, New Zealand is in the Tasman Sea, several states are on the Gulf of Mexico, etc.

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        8 months ago

        China isn’t claiming territory that’s not theirs, it multiple times offered to jointly build defensive fortifications with other neighboring countries to safeguard against invasion. Yet when they said no, they had the gall to throw a fit that China built some to protect itself.

        treats all the island countries with disdain, while building artificial islands close to their shores.>>

        Citation needed

        Good thing that all the fortifications that China builds are within it’s internal waters or act as safeguards and watch posts for nearby countries.

        Keep up the slander.

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          8 months ago

          We’re discussing via writing, so if it’s anything it’s libel. But it isn’t that either - for a start nothing I’ve said is false, and neither does it damage their reputation.

          China is claiming territory that a few years ago they did not claim. They’re doing this, in part, by building artificial islands very close to the lands of other countries. The idea being they want to expand their borders 200 miles around their new islands, regardless of whose territory this encroaches.

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            8 months ago

            I never disputed your second paragraph, I said the reasons for doing it are fundamentally different.