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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

America will hang out in the hopes an opportunity will come of it, as well as a show of force to China.

What kind of opportunity? The only reason there's any drama happening in the first place is because China is attempting to unilaterally reshape the very idea of the laws of the sea.

There wouldn't be a perceived need to provide a show of force unless there was provocation to begin with.

You don't have to be patriotic or even American to understand that willfully ignoring international laws in which you are a signatory, is problematic for international relations.

If it's right and just to criticize America flaunting international law, then we should be non biased enough to be critical of other nations when they do the same.