As someone from there, I can say quite confidently that it's not really about 'South China Sea Imperialism' and just the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, over which the PRC has a perfectly reasonable claim.
Well, yes, as far as those particular islands are concerned. But the dispute has to do with fishing and resource exploitation more broadly to my understanding, right? The claimed waters in that area are a general fucking mess to look at with all the contradictory claims.
As someone from there, I can say quite confidently that it's not really about 'South China Sea Imperialism' and just the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, over which the PRC has a perfectly reasonable claim.
Well, yes, as far as those particular islands are concerned. But the dispute has to do with fishing and resource exploitation more broadly to my understanding, right? The claimed waters in that area are a general fucking mess to look at with all the contradictory claims.