China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with the release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount

China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. What is the map, and why is it upsetting people so much?

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It seems significant, then, that Beijing chose to release the map on the heels of a late August meeting of the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – and just before China is to participate in top-level meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Group of 20 rich and developing nations.

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In releasing the map now, Beijing is widely seen as signaling it has no intention of backing down on any of its claims and is making sure that its positions are fresh in the minds of other countries in the region.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      I just see the world as objectively as I can, not how I want it to be.

      You’re truly exceptional and everyone else is dumb and biased.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Do you have a moral compass? A set of values you compare other things against? If so, does it apply to your views on foreign policy?

        • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          So the good of humanity is the top interest right? So things that China does that are bad for humanity are bad, right? It seems to me like self interested territorial expansion, possibly with military force, would be pretty bad for humanity on the whole.

            • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              I agree both western and eastern countries can and have been in the wrong. I think that’s the point your trying to make. And I agree.

              Your original comment sounded like you were saying both are okay, or that China’s aggression was not bad.

                • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  You might want to specify you think both are bad rather than that one excuses the other. Whataboutism (where one deflects to bad things other countries have done) is extremely common in justifying absolutely horrific things. Such as the invasion of Ukraine, the ongoing Ethnocide of Uyghurs, or even the Holocaust.