For the first time in 22 years, two German warships will sail through the Taiwan Strait, a move likely to provoke Beijing. Germany joins other Western nations in asserting freedom of navigation in the region amid China’s territorial claims over Taiwan
  • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    You do realise that Taipei’s territorial claims are exactly the same as those of Beijing. I know the western media never bother to mention it because it doesn’t align with the approved narrative but Taiwan claims the very same nine dash line as China.

    To this day, Taiwan remains firm in its claims to the South China Sea. They have been historically justified on the basis that, as there was no United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in existence in 1947, it was legitimate for the ROC to claim the South China Sea territories and waters based on the historical connections of these with China. According to the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR), a Taiwanese think tank, there was no legal impediment to the claim in 1947 and, for a long period, there were no challenges to the ROC’s claims from other countries.[4] They were largely ignored – except by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which concurred with them.

    https://www.thechinastory.org/taiwans-south-china-sea/

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      I know the western media never bother to mention it because it doesn’t align with the approved narrative

      How to say “I’m not worth listening to” without saying it.

        • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          There’s a bit more to it than that.

          NATO is a strategic alliance lead by the US. NATO doesn’t have any feelings and isn’t pleased or displeased about anything. Instead it generally does whatever is the US believes is most strategically advantageous.

          Those strategist are typically smart people who listen to all kinds of things. They’re definitely careful about what they say though and won’t go around promoting information they don’t want suppressed.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            NATO doesn’t have any feelings and isn’t pleased or displeased about anything.

            Organizations are composed of people, my friend. And people have feelings.

            Those strategist are typically smart people who listen to all kinds of things.

            I’ve heard the same said of Joe Rogan.

            • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              Yes and emergent behavior goes both ways. Organizations have many properties that the individuals they’re made up of don’t have and they lack many properties that individuals have. Organizations don’t have feelings. Even in the rare cases when the feelings of the people in those organizations are homogeneous, the organizations almost never manifest those feelings without significant alterations.

              Are you seriously comparing Joe Rogan with NATO strategists?

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Dude, I love China and its people and have been there several times. I obviously don’t approve of everything but some of the funniest, most kindhearted people on Earth are in China. I’m not sure there’s a place on Earth I’d rather have a meal with some regular citizens.

      But just follow The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Taipei can be wrong too. But those laws took like centuries of stupid wars and, ultimately, diplomacy, to establish. Even if you want to change them, it’ll require diplomacy and cooperation, not hosing down some Filipino fishermen.