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fatslob-:O said: Yes, they do! Ever since 1947 they've claimed the original islands. What international laws were there at the time against annexing technically rogue territories ? They own the original land fair and square as per their methods but unfortunately the UNCLOS agreement does not apply in this case ... In a hypothetical scenario what exactly are you supposed to do when two sovereign island states are within less than 200 nautical miles of each other ? As for the artificial islands, what exactly does China's neighbors have to be afraid of when it is technically under their jurisdiction as to do so ? |
How can you claim a group of islands that no one lives there? And they took areas that's not even part of the contested areas!
So your saying the UN law is meaningless and a claim of China should be enforced that destroys the soveriegnty of other nations?
The hypothesis means nothing in this case because what China took is not within the 200 nuatical miles of their country. Do not change the subject.
And btw China is harassing the fishermen of other countries who's ancestry has fished and lived there far longer than the claim of the 9 dash line. That is the problem. Denying a soveriegn country's right to fish and gather resources from their own waters is a violation of internal law.
There is no going around about that.
If China had every right to claim the entire South China Sea then they would not be afraid to go to the arbitration but they choose not to do so.
This is what I mean by China getting a free pass. They break international law but they are still in the right for a claim that no one but themselves accepts to be true.
Edit: Wait when you made your argument, you mean only the Parcel and Spratlys right? Because what I'm saying is they kinda took more than that and they kinda laying the claim on the entire South China Sea. So I just wanted to be sure, I'm not misunderstanding what your saying. ^^
