Right.......When China speaks...everyone listens...Right
Just two of China’s coastal cities has a larger population than all of Australia.
Just eleven of China’s coastal cities has a larger population than all of Australia.
CHina’s total coastal population is greater than the total costal population of all N.American/S.America/Australasia coastal populations combined.
And why shouldn’t the non-Chinese populations on the Pacific group together to defend themselves against the Chinese masses and huge naval/shipping/fishing/maritime fleets?
You chicoms STFU or we will default on your communist arses... hell we may anyway.
Oh no, China is upset that its provocative action in the area MIGHT result in a backlash? The Chicom leaders and PLAN better stop smoking dope and do a reality check.
“...urged them to refrain from inflaming regional tensions.”
LOL! China inflames regional tensions by expanding their military well beyond self defense and by claiming areas that were largely settled, then they warn Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc. to not inflame tensions.
China is on the move. They have a nationalistic, expansionist fervor. Too bad the USA is led by a community organizer and his cabal of left-wing professors. They are completely out of their league, and China (and the world) knows it. This is not likely to end well.
Because Free Trade with Communist China worrrkksss....ask any Free Trade Commie supporting Free Trade with Communist China
China is also attempting to bully it’s smaller neighbors to negotiate - one on one, not multilaterally with it in territorial disputes in the neighboring seas - translation: to let themselves get picked-off, one by one, instead of demanding a common set of standards for settling all such disagreements in their common neighboring seas.
Full translation - China is is the only allowed to “gang up” on any one in the region (if you believe in the “New Middle Kingdom”).
Hitler warns England, France, United States not to gang up in Sudetenland dispute.