What would the smaller neighbors do then? They've been repeatedly... like I wrote above by big nuclear power China. The smaller PH already took them to the international Hague which invalidated their sham 9-dash map lawfully and peacefully, yet China don't want to honor it. Some don't even have the appropriate aircraft to intercept at all, nothing.

So the US doing that is a welcome move. Why in the world would you favor big nuclear China doing their repeated things over the smaller bullied neighbors?

Say If there are no bullied smaller neighbors there or any at all in there, and then the US on the other side of the planet being there, then criticize them as you want.

You immediately criticize the US as playing dick, yet you didn't criticize China's many things at all especially on that particular sky/sea where they have no jurisdiction in the first place? So how are you balanced and unbiased? You've thought first about what big bully nuclear China felt but not the bullied smaller neighbors? The Hague Ruling is the real balanced and unbiased, no big, no small, no powerful, no weak, international and outside of any pressure from big neighbors.

Show it. And what do you propose? What do you want?

The Hague Ruling already proved it all could be done legitimate and peacefully, which nations should abide. That there is a lawful way via international means away from pressure from any bigger claimant, without bloodshed.

Irrelevant to what big China has illegally done and is repeatedly doing, stop you whataboutism. The Hague Ruling proved it all could be done lawfully and peacefully, which nations should abide.

Get real! Do you really think those smaller claimants would really enforce those? Militarize them, enforce their own ADIZ, deploy naval fleets and militias to block, lock targets, threaten, fire lasers, and push away local fishermen and other ships? Only one far, far away has done those repeatedly.

The smaller claimants don't claim waters obviously super close to their neighbors just within eyesight reach, unlike far, far away China which has been threatening, firing lasers, deploying militias, reclaiming and militarizing those small islands like crazy even forcing their ADIZ, among others.

They have no authority there in the first place via their fake 9-dash line. They want conquest plain and simple. The Hague Ruling settled the illegitimacy of their sham map lawfully and peacefully already.

China did nothing wrong?

China has no jurisdiction there at all. Those small islands are super close to the Philippines and far, far away galaxy from China. The Hague ruling doesn't recognize their fake 9-dash line. Older maps predate that sham. Other SEA countries also have claims there. They've been blocking and pushing away their neighbors' local fishermen from their own ancestral waters. They are illegally there in the first place.

Genuine question - what would your opinion be if you knew China has been bullying, threatening, harassing, pushing away their neighbors' fishermen from their own ancestral waters, stealing and illegally reclaiming their small islands from them? Depriving them of their food and livelihood since their ancestors, suddenly no more as China vessels and their militia are there?

Didn't you know their fake 9-dash line is already invalidated by the Hague Ruling? Older maps predate that sham.

Didn't you know those small islands are super close to the Philippines and are far, far away galaxy from China?

Didn't you know they also just recently blocked, pushed away, and fired their lasers on unarmed PH Coastguard, again from their own waters? Some friend, huh?

But of course you purposefully ignore those. Genuine questions.

China has no jurisdiction there at all. Those small islands are super close to the Philippines and far, far away galaxy from China. The Hague ruling doesn't recognize their fake 9-dash line. Older maps predate that sham. Other SEA countries also have claims there. They've been blocking and pushing away their neighbors' local fishermen from their own ancestral waters.

> CNN) — The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. > > A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) airport, crackles over the radio of the US Navy P-8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the US flight, listens in.s > > “American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” it says. > > In a few minutes, a Chinese fighter jet armed with air-to-air missiles intercepts the US plane, nestling in just 500 feet off its port side. > > The Chinese fighter jet was so close, the CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them – and could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with.

Yep, they'll just buy more missiles and weapons, then launch more rockets and missiles.