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I was unfamiliar with the geography so I looked it up on a map. It's crazy that China is making claims to the water. It's over 700 miles from China but only 120 miles from the Philippines.
It would be like Canada making territorial claims to the water around Bermuda.
Welcome to the imperialist affront to international law that is the ten-dash-line (previously known as the nine-dash-line).
The Wikipedia Article explains the grounds that each of the 6 countries involved base their claim.
Some are based on historical ownership from WW2, others it’s either apart of its continental shelf or within 200 miles of its coast.
China is deseparately trying to flip off every neighboring country, aren't they?
Given their global network of secret police stations, global hacking, espionage, intellectual property theft and other shenanigans, the debt trap scheme that is the belt and road initiative, etc. pp. they are doing far more than just being a dangerous nuisance to neighboring countries. What's worse is that any time they are being called out, they and their sycophants are pulling the sinophobia card or using the age-old defense of what's indefensible, whataboutism.
Pride comes before the fall. And I think here especially, China is getting way too cocky.
I mean................................. The entire first sentence can be copied for the USA lmao. Just replace belt and road initiative with IMF.
Not saying this discounts any of what China is doing, but I thought it was funny because you mentioned whataboutism.
Because the parent mentioned that the typical defence of Chinese actions is whataboutism you thought it would be funny to do some whataboutism about the actions of China?
In case you were innocently using whataboutism without meaning to, here's a tip to avoid it.
If you're going to compare to the US or wherever, first ask yourself if that place was mentioned in the comment you're replying to. If not, it's whataboutism.