China is now demanding that vessels sailing through the South China Sea, and East China Sea (Senkaku Islands) report to them in advance, before transiting through "their waters". LOL
I suspect US warships will ignore these demands, as will the Japanese, and hopefully many, many others too.
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The Chinese grow ever more brazen, which reminds me a lot of the leadup to WWII, when no one stopped Hitler either.
What really makes this interesting is that the Chinese recently gave their Coast Guard the ability to use lethal force against anyone in "their waters".
Before anyone chimes in and says they'd never use force aggressively, perhaps you should see the following footage, where the Chinese massacred 64 Vietnamese people at a contested reef in the region, in 1988:
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