Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf...West Philippine Sea or South China Sea?
Since the first man walked on these archipelagos, those clusters of rocks and sand sticking out of the sea were there. Because we have more than 7,100 Islands - those useless rocks and sands so far, far away were not even registered in our consciousness, and for eons of time...it mattered not to us.
...then came China. They started building beautiful structures. They expanded the Islands by reclamation. They bought lands from the Philippines, where they flattened the hills and mountains, bringing the earth to reclaim the Islands.
When we learned what was going on, it was too late to shout foul. It was too late to say, "Stop! These Islands are ours, but who gave us the right to claim them?" Not a single Filipino living there was arrested or deported by China, meaning those tiny Islands were there for the taking.
What proof do we have that those Islands are ours - nothing. Is it because it is closer to us than China? Why does England claim the Falkland Islands when it is laughably closer to Argentina than England - that might makes right.
Why did Spain claim the Philippines as theirs in the not-so-distant past, and every Filipino an Indio (slave) - might make right.
When the United Nations partitioned Palestine and gave half of it to the Jews (the Philippines voted for it), was it right or was it wrong. When the U.N. arbitration in the Hague declared the West Philippine Sea part of the Philippines' exclusive economic zone, was it right or was it wrong. China says...wrong! Is there anything we can do about it, it might make sense. When Trump said I could not punish the King of Saudi Arabia for the murder of Khashoggi because the king was buying from us billions worth of armaments, the world fell silent - again, might make right.
DU30 is probably the world's smartest foul-mouthed leader of our time. He knows how to play the game. It is better to be a friend of China than a war dog of the USA.
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