June 22, 2016

"The United States likes to think of itself as a force for peace, law and justice, and the deployment of two aircraft carriers on a 'training mission' in East Asia obviously backs up that aspiration. Or does it?

The timing of the operation -- just ahead of a ruling on South China Sea disputes -- is surely a deliberated one. The United States has dressed up the illegal, unilateral arbitration instigated by the Philippines as a noble act of homage to international law, while China's complete ambivalence toward irrelevant proceedings in The Hague is painted as disrespectful and a violation of that same international law."

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