JohnnyB, I know it's in your interest to defend China at all costs(and I'm baffled as to why, you seem like an intelligent person), but I say it again, to ignore the threat of China on the geopolitical stage is true folly. You could, for instance, look at the Arctic, where they are trying desperately to leverage some control over it, despite not being an arctic bordering nation, having no land ownership, and there being no neutral unoccupied unclaimed area of the arctic to plant a flag on.
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A head of the Polar Research Institute for China, for example, called these kinds of public spaces the “most competitive resource treasures,” China’s National Security Law creates the legal capability to protect China’s rights across them, and top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have suggested China’s share of these resources should be equal to its share of the global population.
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They note that, “the game of great powers” will “increasingly focus on the struggle over and control of global public spaces” like the Arctic and Antarctic and argue that China “cannot rule out the possibility of using force” in this coming “scramble for new strategic spaces.”
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https://www.brookings.edu/research/n...and-ambitions/
So what, nothing to worry about? They feel entitled to take a share. We need to be prepared to defend ourselves from this.
Read the whole thing, it's worth it for the insight(and not that long).