The South China Seasickness -- Trefor Moss, The Diplomat
As China, the Philippines and Vietnam argue over the South China Sea the waters are being over fished and polluted. And conflict could be around the corner.
Many citizens of China, the Philippines and Vietnam won’t have heard of the tiny scraps of land in the South China Sea that their governments compete with one another to claim. Certainly, almost none will ever set eyes on them.
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My Comment: Nations that border the South China Seas have a long history of not trusting each other .... that is why it is hard to believe that they will start accommodating each other right now. My prediction .... and I concur with the last paragraph of this article ....
.... If ASEAN fails in its duty to draft a meaningful code, then it’s naïve to think that Chinese and Vietnamese and Philippine ships will continue to face off peaceably in the South China Sea’s anarchic waters. “They aren’t just going to keep meeting each other eye to eye and then walk away,” concludes Thayer. “At some point there has to be friction or violence.”
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