Erik Bethel
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So it's us.
It's basically us.
And the Filipinos.
The Filipinos are awesome.
So if you look at the map, have you seen this map here?
Here's China.
Here's this line where they basically claimed pretty much all of this territory.
It's very far away from China.
This is Palawan.
And over here, there are a bunch of
This is China.
And they blew up like a millennia's worth of coral reef to build islands.
And you see these islands, you can Google them.
They are incredible.
Like with runways you can land a 747 on, missile defenses.
Naval bases.
Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, all these guys.
And so here you have little Filipino fishing vessels trying to do their thing.
And then the Chinese Coast Guard comes in and literally shoots lasers at their eyes or waterboards them or rams them in Philippine territorial water.
And I say it's Philippine territorial water because in 2016, the United Nations proclaimed an edict saying that, yeah, this is a law.