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You're desperately trying to pivot the conversation about current issues to historical context hoping that that a absolves anything. It doesn't.
I never said the US was good, but, again, nice try to derail the conversation. I never absoved the US of past actions either. You guys do this a lot, I notice. These are all debate tactics to derail the discussion. They don't work any more. We can see through the bullshit. It doesn't change the fact that China is violating international waters. So shove it. Every country did bad things a hundred years ago. It's not an excuse to do what China is doing in the present.