Well it's the International law that the World adhere and respect that will brand your 9 dash lies ILLEGAL and just pure nonsense.
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You should thank us for bringing the issue to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The issue will now be settled once and for all.
lol, they have no power to dictate sovereignty. That isn't even what the Philippines is suing for anyways. What's on the table is what is and isn't an island. The Philippines also don't want anyone telling them what's theirs and what isn't apparently.
Worse case scenario, we'll lose island status for some of the rocks, and Philippines itself will have to redraw the maps as it's claims to large areas are also based on those same islands.
In the worst case scenario for China. Philippines gets a smaller EEZ, but including the rocks, and we'll have bases inside your EEZ. There isn't any international protocol for handing over bases, and certainly no one strong enough to force us.
Even more, even if we do get forced into handing over the islands, it's very simple to delay proceedings. A few hurdles there, a few dollars here, and this can get delayed into the day after hell freezes over.
Then instead of our 9 dash line, we get a huge international water, that belongs to no one, but we will have defacto control, as our navy continue to expand.
So in essence, even if we do follow the decision and you win, in everything but name, nothing will change.
it is , China's ridiculous claim actually intersects our trade routs to Japan ,s.Korea ,Vietnam etc . International waters is not China's personal picnic spot .
It is as much of our fight as USA's fight .
Funny enough that people always forget China is actually there in the area. Your biggest trade partner, China transport three times more goods to you than the countries you listed. Unless we want to sink our own ships, you'll be fine.
If you want to challenge China because you think you are a global power, well, build a navy that's bigger than our South China Sea Fleet and we'll talk. (P.S. I checked, right before this post, you can too if you like)