Tsavo Lion Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:43 am
Before the Han & Qin reached the S. Chinese coast, they had to subjugate the natives living south of the Yangtze river.
Great power rivalry was going on since the time of ancient Egyptian, Hittite, Assyro-Babylonian & Persian empires; the current USA-PRC rivalry is just the latest in this series. China propped up her claims by building islands on rocks & reefs- but this fact is being used against her to delegitimize them, regardless of the past history of Western colonisation of many islands elsewhere. Although not captured from natives, these artificial islands do infringe on the SCS littoral natives by virtue of their overlapping EEZs. The PRC also captured the Paracels from Vietnam.
The human affairs r full of injustices, unnecessary strife & suffering; every party to a dispute has its own truth & reasons for acting the way it does. Politics is the art of the possible- there is no room for morality & philosophy in it.
US Commander: Be Ready for Conflict With China
What really drives the South China Sea conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N1fMMsY3sQ
In this forum, on many occasions I sympathized with Asians (who btw also fought among themselves for millenia) while not justifying Western expansionism. However, there's no such thing as a benevolent empire. Any empire & lesser regional power would do what they must to preserve themselves, with all justifications their scholars, politicians, propagandists, lawyers, clergy, & top military commanders can come up with.
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