The PRC as well as everybody else, except Banky Moon, most likely will sit quietly on their butts, faces, hands, take your pick, because the story seems to have lost something in translation. The problem at the moment is not fishing but immigrant smuggling and the Indonesian gummint has stated they ain’t putting up with it. Wetbacks coming from Burma ( yeah I know Myanmar) are bailing out of the upper country and heading for Indonesia. In the meantime Indonesians who ain’t happy are trying to escape to Australia. Whole lotta migratin’going on. There hasn’t been a word in the Asian press about illegal fishing-—that’s just SOP in Asian waters. As with the Euros and North Africa the fix at the moment is to sink the smuggle boats. It seems people need to stay home and fix their own half assed gummints.
I’d like to see the Indonesians kick some PRC butt over this Chinese encroachment into Indonesian territorial space.
The Chinese are actively increasing their strategic control over regional ocean waters and sea lines of communication and commercial shipping. They are building islands and seizing islands and turning both types into military bases. They sure need SOMEBODY to take them down a notch. It is unlikely to be the United States as the U.S. Navy believes that Global Warming is the biggest strategic threat in the Pacific. (The Obamessiah isn’t the only government official backing this lunacy/political ruse.)