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- If the U.S. intended to control that part of the ocean on the other side of the globe maybe they shouldn't have started calling it "the South China Sea"yuekit
- It's not the US wanting to control that sea or naming it. It's international waters actually, not the property of just one government.monospaced
- Trump was totally right, it's unprecedented to snag up a science drone right under the noses of the guys picking it up, with no reason nor authority to do so.monospaced
- Tweeting about it is just bad form though. It wasn't insightful or really that meaningful of an opinion. It was like a bad news report. So odd.monospaced
- The authority is a bit hazy because China claims control over a larger area of those waters than the U.S. acknowledges.yuekit
- I was just pointing out the PR difficulty created by trying to claim something named after China does not belong to China :)yuekit
- Now imagine if China was contesting an area called the South U.S. Sea...and floating thousands of surveillance drones there.yuekit
- You're totally right. Is the US actually contesting control of that sea though? And isn't the name mostly to do with geography, like the Indian Ocean?monospaced
- It's not Indias ocean. I believe many nations trade through the South China Sea, agreeing and requiring it to be treated as international watersmonospaced
- I wasn't aware there were thousands of drones though. That is weird.monospaced
- Imagine if Mexico claimed ownership of the Gulf of Mexico.monospaced
- Yeah fair point :)... I wasn't being entirely serious about that part.yuekit
- I do think the U.S. press continually leaves out our own military presence in these regions. They make it look like something like this comes out of nowhere.yuekit