Hopefully China is realising based on *gestures at everything else* that they can in fact stand on business with the south china sea and the rest of the world will not implicitly support American primacy in these matters.
Not to say its necessarily an American boat they drove away, the west is always pulling these naval fake-outs for the sake of testing China’s response and to generally undermine their legitimacy. It’s so provocative.
I’m sure some policy wonk would know better to me its childish and petulant.
It does look like China is sending a message here, and they know they have a very strong hand now with the debacle in Iran. Everyone can see that American security umbrella is worthless now. On top of that, China showed how fragile US economy is during the tariff war. Being assertive now is the right move because the myths about American economy and military might have been dispelled, and that’s still fresh in everyone’s minds.
Hopefully China is realising based on *gestures at everything else* that they can in fact stand on business with the south china sea and the rest of the world will not implicitly support American primacy in these matters.
Not to say its necessarily an American boat they drove away, the west is always pulling these naval fake-outs for the sake of testing China’s response and to generally undermine their legitimacy. It’s so provocative.
I’m sure some policy wonk would know better to me its childish and petulant.
It does look like China is sending a message here, and they know they have a very strong hand now with the debacle in Iran. Everyone can see that American security umbrella is worthless now. On top of that, China showed how fragile US economy is during the tariff war. Being assertive now is the right move because the myths about American economy and military might have been dispelled, and that’s still fresh in everyone’s minds.