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> Imagine the outrage if the title were instead "China seizes Philippine oil tanker in South China Sea"

China has been sinking Philippine boats in Philippine territorial waters [1].

There are good reasons to be outraged about this. But it's continuing a precedent China and Russia set, presumably assuming the West wouldn't follow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Reed_Bank_incident





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