Is the Chinese government’s uneasy friendship with North Korea costing it the public’s confidence? A curious confluence of recent events involving two fishing vessels suggests that might be the case.
The crisis began in the waters of Scarborough Shoal, a set of fish-laden reefs and small rocky islands west of the Philippines and the source of territorial disputes among the Philippines, China and Taiwan…
Two Fishing boats, an interesting picture of what China isn't doing and how it isn't really concerned about what my western mind would have thought to be more politically important. It will be interesting to hear if we start seeing armed conflicts between the NKA (I mean North Korean fishermen) and Chinese peasant fishermen.
