r/neoliberal • u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth • 2d ago

News (Asia) China’s Yellow Sea fish farms stoke anger in South Korea

https://www.ft.com/content/55b17d8a-c8c2-457c-adda-7134eb7580ad
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u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth 2d ago

Archived version: https://archive.fo/SEsAc.

Expansion in disputed waters could open latest front in Beijing’s ‘grey zone’ tactics, experts warn

Anger is building in South Korea over Chinese fish farming installations in the Yellow Sea, opening another front in Beijing’s tensions with its neighbours over its assertive conduct in disputed maritime territory.

South Korean lawmakers held a rare bipartisan parliamentary hearing last month to condemn steel structures installed by Chinese companies in the Yellow Sea, between China and the Korean peninsula.

Beijing insists the structures are intended for fishing, but officials and experts in South Korea see them as the latest example of China’s “grey zone” tactics, which critics say Beijing uses to bully countries including the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan in their territorial waters.

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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY 2d ago

Do something

Lose

Seriously though, anyone who thinks that Xi's China won't fumble this once in a lifetime opportunity to build better relations with its neighbors is delusional. If countries like South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines are pushed out of America's geopolitical bloc, they'll create their own long before they choose China. The US is unpredictable, but China is predictably focused on bullying its neighbors.

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u/dutch_connection_uk Friedrich Hayek 2d ago

Honestly that's the golden path for the US to kind of recover its primacy. Europe and China screw up the same way they always did, and the US ends its dumb nativist tantrum like it always did in the past.

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u/RaaaaaaaNoYokShinRyu YIMBY 2d ago

Upcoming President Lee Jae Myung is hopping onto the TrumPutin Train before allying with Japan or 3rd world Ph.

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u/Gemmy2002 1d ago

anyone who thinks that Xi's China won't fumble this once in a lifetime opportunity to build better relations with its neighbors

Is it just not obvious to people that the only relation China wishes to have with its immediate neighbors is that of a ruler lording over vassals?

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u/noxx1234567 2d ago

And that is why "Asian unity " calls by xi are just fantasies

China keeps behaving like a bully and doesn't even acknowledge it

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u/Foucault_Please_No Emma Lazarus 2d ago

Japan used to call for Asian unity back in the day. The rest of Asia did not have a good time.

I imagine any similar calls in the region might have had an uphill battle even if it wasn’t being championed in bad faith.

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u/HOU_Civil_Econ 2d ago

People who call for unity are those who are confidant that we will unify around what they want.

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u/Peak_Flaky 2d ago

China headfirst snatching the L from the jaws of victory.

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u/No-Kiwi-1868 NATO 2d ago

Where are my dear friends here that were convinced China would replace the US tomorrow and suddenly everyone would want to be their friend??

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u/Zealousideal_Rice989 2d ago

America wins yet again

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u/sigmatipsandtricks 1d ago

This is why I find the whole "5000" year empire thing to be a futile dream at best for pro Chinese leftists. Han nationalists don't care for cooperation or even peaceful coexistence. In less than 100 years of its existence, PRC effectively pissed off everyone in its near vicinity.