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International relations.

QUORA: WHY DOES RUSSIA SUPPORT CHINA IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE?

7/18/2020

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Vince Dhimos answered a question at Quora.
 
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Russia-supports-China-in-South-China-sea-issue/answer/Vince-Dhimos
 
Why does Russia support China, in South China Sea issue ?

Vince Dhimos Master's in Russian from Kutztown State University
 
Your question has a sound basis in fact. Russia does support China in this issue but not very strongly. In fact, Russia declares it wants to stay out of the issue, as reported here:
 
Putin: Russia is staying out of South China Sea dispute
 
The US is now starting to feel the effects of its irrational position toward Russia. If the US and its puppets in Europe etc had taken a more reasonable stance toward Russia, that country might be more amenable to nudging China away from what the US is calling an expansionist policy. But after all, US-controlled NATO and the US Pentagon have officially declared Russia as an “adversary” of the US. That’s unfair on so many levels. I have shown, for example, that Russia is not the aggressor it is alleged to be in world affairs: https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-country-like-Russia-which-GDP-based-on-totally-natural-reserves-low-technology-screw-up-population-meddle-in-the-affair-of-other-countries-Moldova-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Syria-or-say-other-Shouldnt-Western/answer/Vince-Dhimos
 
Further, Russia is supplying cheap gas to Europe, and since Europe is supposedly an ally of the US, then the US ought to view that positively. But no, Congress has decided to slap unfair sanctions on the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 in a bid to prevent completion of the line, thereby causing great economic harm to both Russia and Europe. These stupid policies have greatly damaged Russia-US relations, perhaps irreparably, precluding any possibility of persuading Russia to pressure China to soften its expansionist policies in the South China Sea.
 
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John M Stassi
7/18/2020 02:18:41 pm

In May-October of 1988, I travelled extensively in the PRC. Upon arrival in Beijing (by train from Europe) I visited a bookstore and bought a large map of the country with even the smallest locations identified in Chinese characters.

Although I studied conversational Chinese in Taipei in 1980 for about 6 months, I never did study the reading and writing system. Therefore I needed this map to be able to determine the destination of buses and trains that would eventually take me into some of the most remote parts of that country, especially in the west and southwest parts of the beautiful country.

On that map, for the first time, I saw the "Nine-Dash Line" that delineated the PRC claim to the entire South China Sea. I couldn't believe it. It seemed to me to be identical to the USA claiming jurisdiction over the entire Caribbean Sea! That is, a gross violation of the laws of the sea as I understood them.

I also could not believe that in the years that followed, the PRC was allowed to join the WTO and obtained Permanent Most Favored Nation Trading status from the USA without ever requiring it to repudiate its claim on the international waters that were within that line.

And now we are stuck with this superpower that is militarizing this area with the idea to restrict the free movement of vessels within it.

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