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Cheezied OP t1_j9x4cm4 wrote

> CNN) — The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. > > A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) airport, crackles over the radio of the US Navy P-8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the US flight, listens in.s > > “American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” it says. > > In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side. > > The Chinese fighter jet was so close, the CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them – and could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with.

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Dry-Peach-6327 t1_j9x7e44 wrote

This is why the aliens won’t let us in the federation smh

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coreywindom t1_j9xkz7n wrote

I don’t understand why the news reports things like this. This is normal, China did nothing wrong.

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ShareYourIdeaWithMe t1_j9xl3n0 wrote

Just start landing on these islands. They don't belong to China. Any use of force is on them.

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RamseyHatesMe t1_j9xnb1l wrote

> ”American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility”

Title is a tad misleading. If a Chinese fighter jet was that close to a contested area of ours(that’s also located near the continental U.S.), at minimum, we’d do the same.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9yizuh wrote

China has no jurisdiction there at all. Those small islands are super close to the Philippines and far, far away galaxy from China. The Hague ruling doesn't recognize their fake 9-dash line. Older maps predate that sham. Other SEA countries also have claims there. They've been blocking and pushing away their neighbors' local fishermen from their own ancestral waters.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9z671a wrote

Genuine question - what would your opinion be if you knew China has been bullying, threatening, harassing, pushing away their neighbors' fishermen from their own ancestral waters, stealing and illegally reclaiming their small islands from them? Depriving them of their food and livelihood since their ancestors, suddenly no more as China vessels and their militia are there?

Didn't you know their fake 9-dash line is already invalidated by the Hague Ruling? Older maps predate that sham.

Didn't you know those small islands are super close to the Philippines and are far, far away galaxy from China?

Didn't you know they also just recently blocked, pushed away, and fired their lasers on unarmed PH Coastguard, again from their own waters? Some friend, huh?

But of course you purposefully ignore those. Genuine questions.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9z6ml9 wrote

China did nothing wrong?

China has no jurisdiction there at all. Those small islands are super close to the Philippines and far, far away galaxy from China. The Hague ruling doesn't recognize their fake 9-dash line. Older maps predate that sham. Other SEA countries also have claims there. They've been blocking and pushing away their neighbors' local fishermen from their own ancestral waters. They are illegally there in the first place.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9zg8l8 wrote

The smaller claimants don't claim waters obviously super close to their neighbors just within eyesight reach, unlike far, far away China which has been threatening, firing lasers, deploying militias, reclaiming and militarizing those small islands like crazy even forcing their ADIZ, among others.

They have no authority there in the first place via their fake 9-dash line. They want conquest plain and simple. The Hague Ruling settled the illegitimacy of their sham map lawfully and peacefully already.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9zh3x5 wrote

Get real! Do you really think those smaller claimants would really enforce those? Militarize them, enforce their own ADIZ, deploy naval fleets and militias to block, lock targets, threaten, fire lasers, and push away local fishermen and other ships? Only one far, far away has done those repeatedly.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9ziow8 wrote

Irrelevant to what big China has illegally done and is repeatedly doing, stop you whataboutism. The Hague Ruling proved it all could be done lawfully and peacefully, which nations should abide.

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Cheezied OP t1_j9zj1uq wrote

The Hague Ruling already proved it all could be done legitimate and peacefully, which nations should abide. That there is a lawful way via international means away from pressure from any bigger claimant, without bloodshed.

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DeMalgamnated t1_j9zpewl wrote

you know i do think that the reason why we have 24/7 news is because only a small % of the "news" is actual news. the rest is just repeated stuff and bullshit like this.

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if they just stuck to reporting real news only, there would be not much news.

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same goes for reddit news subs, it's mostly reposts, repeated article posts.

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wishtherunwaslonger t1_ja0iw5a wrote

I thought you were referencing a South Park episode. Basically we achieved some technological advancement that allowed us to be in some intergalactic space federation. To test us they had some criminal land on our planet with loads of space cash. When the space cops came we lied including the rest of the world about taking the space cash. So we didn’t get to join the intergalactic space federation. Season 13 ep 6 pinewood derby if you wanted to check it out

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Shigsy89 t1_ja16y8k wrote

I like how you assumed I was Chinese 😄 Chinas claims of some territories in the region are laughable and I'm often one of their harshest critics. I am also balanced and unbiased. My point being, we are talking about a US aircraft on the other side of the planet playing dick measuring games. The nations who dispute these particular islands do not include the US.

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Cheezied OP t1_ja1nzd4 wrote

What would the smaller neighbors do then? They've been repeatedly... like I wrote above by big nuclear power China. The smaller PH already took them to the international Hague which invalidated their sham 9-dash map lawfully and peacefully, yet China don't want to honor it. Some don't even have the appropriate aircraft to intercept at all, nothing.

So the US doing that is a welcome move. Why in the world would you favor big nuclear China doing their repeated things over the smaller bullied neighbors?

Say If there are no bullied smaller neighbors there or any at all in there, and then the US on the other side of the planet being there, then criticize them as you want.

You immediately criticize the US as playing dick, yet you didn't criticize China's many things at all especially on that particular sky/sea where they have no jurisdiction in the first place? So how are you balanced and unbiased? You've thought first about what big bully nuclear China felt but not the bullied smaller neighbors? The Hague Ruling is the real balanced and unbiased, no big, no small, no powerful, no weak, international and outside of any pressure from big neighbors.

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