The idea that China should have sovereignty over those islands, which are WAY TOO FAR FROM THEIR COAST, is stupid and makes no sense.

Listening with interest to this and then I heard him say, “sitting on what is essentially dead coral”. Now I am distracted and concerned wondering what is becoming of our oceans and its inhabitants?

4:56 The bottom left corner reads "TEU count circa 2022". However, the numbers on screen are measured in thousands of TEUs, not TEUs.

I love this documentaries. I always thought China was the unreasonable aggressor based on what I saw in mainstream media, but I never realized how complex this dispute is.

Kumain na ba lahat?

Here's one cool detail, the name of the historical document China referenced for its claim - Yiwu Zhi 異物誌 literally means "archive of the strange and foreign things" as in things that are strange and foreign to China. So that means the reefs are .... get this... not Chinese.😂

Hoang Sa, Truong Sa belong to Vietnam

"Its ours because we crashed a boat on it and make people stay on it" is a wild claim

Typical china bad nonsense from the west.

And yet out of these 6 countries, only the Philippines went to UNCLOS to secure its sovereign rights of these islands and won it easily really makes you think

Last week was boeing and Now the hottest geopolitical drama...Protect this man at all costs. Can't believe all this drama is essentially over Fish.

Ah yes, the US using its tentacles via the NED to cause these countries to pick fights over UNCLOS while simultaneously not signing onto UNCLOS.

Why is the South China Sea illustrated with the nine dash line every time in this video? Almost like you're agreeing with the claim

No despute here it belongs to the Philippines. Simple as that no questions asked. Everyone else are just delusional thinking that the islands belong to them

11:47 ✋🏻🤚🏻 Wait. "After Japan RELINQUISHED CONTROL of the Philippines after WW2." I think you meant to narrate it as: "After the Americans and Filipinos LIBERATED the Philippines from Japanese control ... ." 🇺🇸🤝🇵🇭

They celebrated the end of apartheid, then they realized they were still an African country.

6:32 there is no year zero. December 31st, 1 BC was followed by January 1st, 1 AD

Just here to see the Filipinos fill the comments

Indonesia also have a claim in "Natuna Island" which is also claimed by China, so technically there are 7 countries involved in this dispute

"six country fight" is a little disingenuous when China is the only one causing issues

well, starting off with a boeing flight is already .... super dangerous

15:00 It's really interesting how the subsequent US+Phillippines vs China Naval Standoff was left out. Western media and English language cyberspace in general had and still has been conveniently silent. However, it is rather convenient that after the arbitration, the US Navy USPACOM Adm Harry Harris Jr was retired and made Ambassador to S Korea.

Cultural context: The concept of a "nation" with "borders" was generally not present historically in China, or more precisely, among the Hans and their predecessors. This is why a lot of the Chinese government's arguments and doings seems so alien and forced in the West! Whereas Western history often has events of a country *claiming*, *colonising*, or otherwise determining ownership / governance over a specific piece of land, this was not the case historically in China, and so translating related concepts presents a massive cultural challenge, even though modern China has obviously (needed to) adapt to the same Western mindset on territories.

Next video about Chagos Archipelago and Diego Garcia, k?

Fascinating content, but PLEASE lose the background music next time: it adds nothing other than difficulty for those of us with imperfect hearing

just from the fact that china needed to do reclaimation on these places and artificially put a fuckton of shit on it literally invalidates all their claim that they've always been there, they aren't. its not really a dispute with 6 other countries, since each of the claimants potision is a bit more nuanced and then there's the chinese that wanted to hog all the sea. and all the hauge's ruling did was disillusion people here to what extent does its ruling can be enforced when larger nations can just use a might makes right logic and disregard "law". so law only applies on smaller nations? bullshit.

China claims James Shoal to be the southern most point of their territory, which it’s not even above the sea level. I am not sure how they manage to push this down to every Chinese national’s throat. Gonna be some next level mental gymnastics.

Your wrong about homelessness. You are cherry picking your "facts". This is what known as gaslighting. This is am attack on CA, this is how capitalism works, it just creeps people our this is how thier god works. The "god" being capitalism.

Somewhat lacking. No mention of the efforts at multilateral resolution of disputes via the efforts are forging a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea, and the power dynamics that have hampered those efforts. Also it doesn't explain how the ASEAN claimants have been cordial with one another on the matter for years.

China: .. “Oil you say? 👀”

while complicated, i vot Brunei gets their claim confirmed. theirs seems pretty straighforward, they don't parade military power around on it and they only claim one. :D

春秋无义战，成者王侯败者寇，历史是胜利者写的

We have a gigantic military because rich people stay rich by keeping you scared.....

The End is Near 🙏🙏🙏

US has been easily bullied and scared by mere ruzzia. If anything will happen in the Pacific, it will be the deepest ever concern, the deeper one for Marianna trench.

Biden Loves! CCP CHINA 🇨🇳

For. Once not a China bad video from. Sam

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The modern day Taiwanese government does not claim the entirety of the South China Sea, and comparing them to China is disingenuous at best. They are legally forced to hold the exact same land claims as the CCP, due to the international one country, two systems framework. Taiwan does not send military vessels there, they don't attempt to colonize or patrol them, and they don't argue internationally that they have a rightful claim to them.

China won't win this era of expansionism. Too many crises inside their (real) borders. They're trying to build a proverbial bridge that's collapsing behind them, while they try to push forward.

Somewhat lacking. No mention of the efforts at multilateral resolution of disputes via the efforts are forging a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea, and the power dynamics that have hampered those efforts. Also it doesn't explain how the ASEAN claimants have been cordial with one another on the matter for years.

The tiniest island still comes with 125k square miles of EEU

You think rising sea could mean the islands that appear and disappear in the tide

What is the point of that annoying background music? Remove that and just talk...

Anybody else think the island was going to be Taiwan for a second

One would think, on the simplest and irrefutable logic, that proximity of the islands seems to close the case on who owns what. Yet, these countries except the Philippines expand their control far beyond reasonable logic and use the rule of dibs to justify their bullish behavior.

The ANC is as corrupt as FIFA 😌

China are merely responding to US military hostile forces in the area.

18:00 how exactly has the Philippines been aggressive??????????????

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