By ramming fishing boats with military vessels.
And are you saying that China can just pick and choose which international laws it follows and which ones it doesn’t? “Oh, we didn’t agree to that one…so it doesn’t apply to us.”
Comment on China says US broke international law by seizing oil tankers off Venezuela
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 day agoAttack how? With munitions? Like they attack them with lethal force? That kind of attack?
Were maritime laws created with China involved or were they created by the Western Europeans who invaded China by sea and occupied their port cities for a century?
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
IronBird@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
well…yes, that is literally how it’s always worked. the UN is a joke, none of the rules apply to it’s biggest nations unless it’s citizens have the agency/willingness to hold their own accountable
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, I am saying the West has been weaponizing international law for centuries. The Doctrine of Discovery was international law in that it was a decree that courts in multiple nation relied on to justify genocide, slavery, and land dispossession. The US has established that it will subvert all social institutions up to and including training, arming, and transporting terrorists. It has also demonstrated that it has every intention of establishing a dominant presence encircling both China and Russia in the USA’s insane quest to undermine MAD and win a nuclear war with a first strike decapitation. China is asserting its control over a specific region of the seas that are a national security priority given the US’s constant beligerence. To say that China may not have such a presence and may not declare the region militarized due to internation law is the same thing as saying Biden can’t do anything about Trump because he lacked the necessary legal procedures to do so. China is establishing it’s national security boundary as its military assessment sees fit given the threat of the US surrounding it. I am not going lose sleep over China breaking international law about freedom of navigation in the waters nearest it’s territory when the US is destroying a dozen countries at any given time.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
That was a whole lot of words to say “USA bad for ignoring international law…but China good for ignoring it”.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
China’s not good for ignoring it. China is violating international law in its attempt to establish its national security against the constant threats by the US and its allies.
The US violates international law to steal oil, traffick human slave, drugs, and weapons, train and arm terrorists, dump toxic waste in poor countries that can’t defend themselves, and bomb whoever the fuck even thinks about running their own country.
These are not the same violations of international law.
It’s like saying that guy violated the law when he pulled an illegal uturn while you’re standing there with a rifle and 12 bodies at your feet.
Saapas@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
“Explain what international law they broke!”
“Well these”
“Those don’t count”
Lol