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
  • lnxtx@feddit.nlEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Could we stop making the international tensions? Provoking each other?

    • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      The alternative is to let certain countries de facto claim a region because others are too afraid to call them on their BS

      • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 days 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/