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The number of USA bases in that area maybe has something to do with that. Maybe they want to monitor the area for safety reasons but what do I know.
The American bases are there out of the hosting countries' permission. Weird that tankies never mention what Vietnam and Philippines think of the Chinese navy bullying their fishermen, or China not leaving the shoals that is within the 200 nautical mile from Philippines, despite the International Court of Justice ruling that China's presence in that shoal is illegal. But you know, got to keep flipping the script as an NPC....
"The countries the US occupies militarily agreed to it voluntarily" lol right, definitely didn't have anything to do with the extremely obvious threat of being invaded and overthrown if they don't comply
Are you from that part of the world? Are your fishermen being driven away by Chinese navy despite having centuries long friendly relations with Chinese fishermen? Did Philippines allow China to set up base within their maritime shores? Did you guys actually ask Vietnamese and Filipinos apart reading pre-prepared script?
Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo
Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo
The US has literally militarily occupied the Philippines, Japan and South Korea. As for Vietnam, the reason they had historical beef with China was due to the sino-soviet split, but that beef has been largely resolved and the Vietnamese are not as anti-china as you think they are.
"Nazi Germany is in France with the Vichy governments permission!"
Chinese base is in Philippines with Philippine governments permission!
What is that link meant to be to?
Reality
???