Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
Only if the Chinese care about ILOS, which their "9 dash map" (SCS) from back in Kuomintang days, which CCP has seen fit to now assert as their baseline indicates that they may not.
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The Chinese government says that everything inside the"nine dash line" is Chinese sovereign territory. From their point of view, that's the end of the argument.
Now, they are getting to the stage where they can enforce their position. "Who cares about ILOS? Not us!"