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Situation intensifies as Beijing condemns tanker seizures and US security chief calls to remove Nicolas Maduro from power.
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They would know all about breaking international law. They are right in this case but its clear they care nothing for obeying international law themselves.
Nations are always hypocrites.
Without doubt. Look how we let the scum float to the top of the swamp.
Oh, now they suddenly care about international law?
Lol! smh.
Explain which international laws China has broken in the last 5 years.
I will wait.
You know what they’ve been doing to Philippine vessels, right?
And then there’s the laws against compromising another country’s telephone system.
And a whole bunch of other laws. Essentially, if the US has broken an international law in the past 5 years, China has broken it in a less aggressive manner as a response.
And then of course there’s the illegal police stations in other countries and their treatment of Uyghurs at home.
Thing is, China has been very careful to break international law in ways that other countries of power are also doing, mostly the US.
That still doesn’t make it right.
Their entire “claim” to the South China Sea, which completely disregards both international and maritime law. You can’t lay claim to international waters…but try telling China that. They regularly harass and even attack boats from neighboring countries, that are operating within their own coastal economic zones.
Don’t get me wrong…I’m not defending the US in any way…but China is the last country with any credible right to criticize other countries for playing fast and loose with maritime laws.
They learned it from the west
To care for it or not to care? Because the latter is a weird thing to say in reply to someone who thinks they never cared for it in the first place
Everybody’s saying it
I AM THE LAW!
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m no supporter of China … nor the US … nor Russia … nor the UK
But if you change the country names to these headlines, it makes you question why we accept some things and not others
“China seizes oil tanker off Philippines”
The world would go insane and send us to near WWIII if not the start of it … but change it to ‘US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela’, and all of a sudden it is acceptable.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The only reason why it doesn’t is because the West has the biggest stick and America dropped a couple nukes and killed hundreds of thousands for profit so it’s not like we don’t know they’re crazy and amoral enough to threaten us all if we step out of line… Trust me, this is already known by most countries, the global South in particular, but you shouldn’t forget that as long as you live in the West you’re immersed in a Western propaganda bubble. But yes, that Matrix-like awakening/epiphany is on the right track of things. 👍
Drusas@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Considering how China has been treating Filipino vessels, I'm not sure I agree.
frisbird@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Has it been double tapping Filipino fishing boats?