This whole area is the subject of territorial disputes between china and vietnam and the philippines. And others. China claims all the Maritime Territory inside this dotted red line, but its neighbours dispute this. A us warship has sailed close to triton island, which is claimed by china, taiwan and vietnam. In response, china sent military vessels and Fighter Planes to the area in response. Last night the Chinese Foreign ministry put out this statement they called it a serious political and military provocation. This was hours before a phone call between the leaders of us and china in which apparently none of this came up. I asked vincent ni from the bbcs Chinese Service to explain. They did discuss that in a very discreet way in a sense that both sides do notjuantorena relationship, they dont want a confrontational approach. It is also partly for mass consumption because this isnt the first time that it has sailed through the South China Sea and china have objected. It shows that bo
This whole area is the subject of territorial disputes between china and vietnam and the philippines. And others. China claims all the Maritime Territory inside this dotted red line, but its neighbours dispute this. A us warship has sailed close to triton island, which is claimed by china, taiwan and vietnam. In response, china sent military vessels and Fighter Planes to the area in response. Last night the Chinese Foreign ministry put out this statement they called it a serious political and military provocation. This was hours before a phone call between the leaders of us and china in which apparently none of this came up. I asked vincent ni from the bbcs Chinese Service to explain. They did discuss that in a very discreet way in a sense that both sides do notjuantorena relationship, they dont want a confrontational approach. It is also partly for mass consumption because this isnt the first time that it has sailed through the South China Sea and china have objected. It shows that bo
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is not rational. but without that military presence in afghanistan, does america have any potential leverage over the regime that will be left there? probably not. but american policy on this has been incoherent for a long time. when obama was first elected, he said iraq was the wrong war and afghanistan was the right war, so we will persevere with the war in afghanistan and pull out of iraq. janet has frozen. i will come back to you. vincent, let me ask you, does this play into china s hands at all? because china is just about a neighbour of afghanistan s. a little bit. it shares a very small border with afghanistan. i think if we come into this question with this mindset of a great power competition america s loss is china s gain, then probably, yes, but i m afraid the reality is much more complex.