It has taken a decade and a half but now we are seeing the chickens sold to China by the treasonous Bill and Hillary Clinton for illicit campaign funds, “are coming home to roost!”
For the low information Clinton supporters that would be the missile guidance systems and super computing.
The Progressives making the world safer for communism one sell out at a time.
Speaking of Chickens-—we are now going to accept chicken imports from China.
Like we cannot raise enough American chickens to keep McDonalds supplied.
I'd say you, and others on this tread, are the ones with the low information, or lack of knowledge.
If you read down thru the article, in the 7th paragraph from the bottom, you find this sentence: "China is seeking to control large areas of international waters-claiming they are part of its United Nations-defined economic exclusion zone"(EEZ).
This is the Law of the Sea Treaty.
Each coastal nation is granted a 200 mile EEZ. Obviously, there can be overlapping claims to be disputed and negotiated such as the Faulklands/Argentina or US/Cuba. But the US established her maritime borders as part of the Magnussen Act in the 70s. The Magnussen Act established the first 200 mile EEZ and even though it dealt only with fishing, it was the template for the UN's Law of the Sea Treaty.
Second, if a nation can demonstrate, technically, that their shelf extends out beyond 200 miles, they can also claim that as EEZ. China is saying that their shelf extends out beyond the 200 mile.
This is no different from the Arctic, which has been in the news recently. Canada ratified the treaty in 2003 and have to make their claims this year. Canada, Russia, and Denmark(Greenland) are making claims that the Lomonosov Ridge is part of their shelf. Similarly, Britain, Argentina, and Chile are in dispute.
Clinton signed the treaty. Bush failed to get it ratified and Obama failed to get it ratified. The US, Turkey, Israel, Syria, and Iran have not ratified.
After Bush failed to get the treaty ratified, he established his policy to deal with this and Obama has continued Bush's policy.
That is multilateral negotiations among the nations involved. The Artic is negotiated within the Artic Council. The Antarctic is negotiated within the OAS. The South China Sea is negotiated within ASEAN. China doesn't want multilateral negotiations, they want bilateral.
What happened in the hemming in of the US ships is no different from 5 years ago when those Chinese fishing boats hemmed in the USS McCain, who was dragging the sonar tube off of the Phillipines.
The US has been charting the sea bed beginning with Reagan and we have a lot of tech data to dispute these exaggerated claims around the world. But since the US has not ratified the treaty, we don't have a seat on the LOST technical committee.
The treasonous sale of the machine and die equipment from the closing McDonald-Douglas factory - which, if I recall correctly, involved denying the employees attempting to purchase and re-purpose the factory....even though they had the funds on hand - was the first time I got pissed off at government.
Dems were not the only ones, every US corporation was willing to sell the rope for the Chinese to hang the US with. You know how many ivy league business and legal grads were willing to help China as lobbyists in US Congress for a lucrative six figure salary. We may argue who has a better mindset in free market capitalism - Asians vs Americans. I do know one thing, when US corporations arrive in China, no former Chinese regulator or Chinese ivy league grad flocking to them to help the US compete against China.