The US is going on record as opposing the use of military force in the South China Sea. There are many nations there who contest the use of much of the territory. Since China claims the entire region for itself you can see that herein is the problem. None of the other countries have the cahunas to challenge the Chinese so what the US is really saying is China play fair. You can’t just go in and take what you want.
The Chinese understand force. They don’t give a flip about diplomacy. You would get better results if you accidentally blew several of their warships out of the water and then blamed it on a computer error. They are aggressive in their actions now so I really hate to see what they become when they really get their military up to snuff.
They want to get to the point where they can easily neutralize our navy ring customers who may have to operate in that area in case of a conflict.
The US kept their allegations vanilla by not taking sides in the situation (officially) I say that we will get nowhere by cow towing to the Chinese. Forget them. Who died and made them king?
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