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Silly to ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fish and oil that everyone in the region is staking a claim to in the South China Sea.

Absolutely no one cared in the slightest about it up until vast tracts of oil were discovered and fishing rights in the region started to actually be enforced by militaries.

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Or maybe it's the other way? "Oil" is thrown around to get Western "intellectuals" interested..? Maybe China wasn't strong all these years and they were biding their time?

"The threat came from this direction last time. We need to secure this frontier" is convincing enough for me.

https://cimsec.org/chinas-claim-spratly-islands-just-mistake...

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