South China Sea Propaganda

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Please give this article a quick read from the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the Global Times. Should only take a few minutes and is worth to see how Beijing is pushing along its agenda of claiming the entire South China Sea (SCS). This article is in response to an ongoing operation where a US aircraft carrier strike group is sailing right thru the SCS, to Beijing's dismay.

Recently, Beijing has even gone so far as to include their claim to the South China Sea on their passports in the form of the Nine-Dash Line.  The purpose behind this move is simple.  Nations that accept the Chinese passport are by default agreeing to Chinese sovereignty claims over most of the SCS.

Every attempt at claiming the South China Sea, a claim which an international tribunal threw out as baseless in 2016, is an effort to rewrite the narrative and reset the international norm. Eventually, if China is allowed to persist unchallenged it will become reality. China is playing the long game in the SCS to redraw borders without a fight, just sheer patience.