South China Sea
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South China Sea is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 04, 2021 and April 06, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Operating in the South China Sea directly from Hawaii”; “China’s obsession with small islands in the South China Sea”. It most often appears alongside China, facebook, Trump.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 04, 2021
- Last seen: April 06, 2022
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- Trump (2 shared issues)
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- 1856 Paris declaration (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Passos (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American consulate (1 shared issues)
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- Attorney General (1 shared issues)
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- authoritarianism (1 shared issues)
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- BBC (1 shared issues)
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- Bean (1 shared issues)
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- Beijing (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
- The rest of the world regards privateering as flat-out illegal, so virtually all of the ports of the world will be closed to the privateers *and their prizes*. Operating in the South China Sea directly from Hawaii, without any intermediate bases (what's left of Guam will have its hands full), is going to be logistically challenging to say the least. And the value of that prize ship you just took is greatly diminished if it can only be used in the US coastal trade, its cargo sold only on the US domestic market never to be reexported.
China’s foreign affairs are equally troubled. Jiang and Hu were careful leaders, aware that China was still new on the global stage and couldn’t afford to make waves. Xi was more confident in China’s Great Power status. But his practical goals were combined with an obsession with showing China was just as good as everywhere else, and avoiding the appearance of humiliation, which made him overly belligerent and started alienating everywhere else. China’s obsession with small islands in the South China Sea alienated the region enough to drive Vietnam into the arms of the US (partly, haltingly). Even beyond these kinds of big things, the general outlook (called “wolf warrior diplomacy” after a Chinese action movie) seems more focused on playing well at home than keeping foreign countries friendly.
Inline links: drive Vietnam into the arms of the US, wolf warrior diplomacy