Well, that's because it's international waters.
There's also an attempt by China to associate the geography "Taiwan" with "China", when it's obviously a separate country.
There's also an attempt by China to associate the geography "Taiwan" with "China", when it's obviously a separate country.
We're back to pretending opinions are facts, are we?
> There's also an attempt by China to associate the geography "Taiwan" with "China", when it's obviously a separate country.
Interestingly here, Taiwan's constitution and official policy does not claim there are two Chinese states. The United States and world consensus also recognizes the People's Republic of China as a government, but not Taiwan.
Do you explicitly disagree with ROC, PRC and the US about the status of Taiwan as a separate country?
Technically Crimea belongs to Ukraine and most of the world acknowledges this.
But in all practical realty--de facto--Crimea is now Russian territory. It's not foolish to acknowledge this.
It was Iraqi opinion that they were winning the war. It was US opinion that the US was winning the war. One of those was a fact and the other wasn't.