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posted by martyb on Friday January 10 2020, @01:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ownership-is-nine-tenths-of-the-law dept.

China has sent armed vessels and fishing boats into Indonesian waters fueling tensions between the nations in another move by China to try to claim ownership of the region. With China now deliberately sending vessels into the waters of other countries, their actions may be seen as the start of armed hostilities. For years China has made political and financial maneuvers to claim control over other nations through debt and intimidation. Indonesia has refused to negotiate with China on the matter as they see the actions as China invading their territory. With both sides bringing both sky and sea vehicles into the region the outcome of this issue may be a deciding point to determine whether or not China will be pushed out of the region. While the ruling by the UN is very clear about the region, China refuses to accept it.

China appears to have forgotten why the UN was formed in the first place. Japan learned a hard lesson in 1945.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 11 2020, @06:10AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 11 2020, @06:10AM (#942173) Journal
    Even if you're full on the mark, it still means that the Chinese, masters of the long game lost to some European barbarians for centuries.
  • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday January 11 2020, @06:32AM (1 child)

    by dry (223) on Saturday January 11 2020, @06:32AM (#942175) Journal

    Yes, a small united force can beat a large not united force.
    Actually, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-French_War [wikipedia.org], it was basically a draw militarily but the French may have won diplomatically, though that is unclear as the French government fell due to the peace treaty. Both sides claimed victory.
    The only other war that I can find that involved the French and Chinese was the second opium war which was an alliance between the UK, the USA and the French and considering what was going on in China at the time, namely the Taiping Revolution, one of the bloodiest wars ever, it is not surprising the Chinese lost.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 11 2020, @01:02PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 11 2020, @01:02PM (#942210) Journal
      Indeed. The point though is that to claim someone is seeing centuries ahead in such a case is ridiculous.