{"id":10532,"date":"2016-07-13T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=10532"},"modified":"2019-04-06T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T08:31:44","slug":"south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Perspective on South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Hague released its ruling on China’s questionable claim\u00a0to the South China Sea, and as expected, it was not in China’s favor. Also as expected this has resulted in\u00a0shrill\u00a0cries of victimization from China, depicting itself as the target of bullying by the United States and Japan.<\/p>\n

Below\u00a0an example – a comic which I came across today. The original version in Chinese is on the right and a version which I translated is on the left:<\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/p>\n

The South China Sea debate is leading to a lot of expat discomfort, as China predictably pulls nationalist strings to promote\u00a0the “East versus West” narrative. It is not good for anyone but on this particular issue, neither side can step down.<\/p>\n

This is a good overview of the current situation:\u00a0No Stepping Back by Wu’er Kaiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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