U.S. strike group enters South China Sea as China deploys aircraft carrier - UPI.com
UPI reports: "China's deployment of its aircraft carrier to waters near Hainan Island is taking place as the U.S. Navy's Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group enters the South China Sea, according to a Hong Kong press report. [...] China has claimed as much as 90 percent of international waters as its own within what it calls the 'nine-dash line' that extends more than 1,200 miles from the Chinese mainland."
Comment: Let that last sentence sink in, "China has claimed as much as 90 percent of international waters as its own," and you see the crux of the problem. The laws, traditions and customs that govern the seas have been well established by sea-going nations and they are, in short, nothing new. China knows full well that they are claiming more than they are entitled to under international law. They have adopted the simple and arrogant attitude of a thug: yeah, who's gonna stop me?
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