This is not about China's building those fake islands. This is about China's claim to the entirety of the South China Sea as territorial waters. Completely different issue. The fake islands as legal and physical bases from which China can point to as justifications for such claim can be a parallel companion, but if those fake islands are necessary to support the claim to entirety of the SCS, that mean the entire SCS can be and should be discussed as a standalone issue.
So for the 3rd effing time --
-- will you just give straight answers to the questions:
- How many Asian countries support China's claim to the entirety of the South China Sea as Chinese territorial waters ?
- Where are the supporting documents for that support ?
No objections to building the fake islands does not equal to even tacit and silent consent to China's claim to the entirety of the SCS as territorial waters. If silence equals to
LEGAL consent, we would have a lot of problems in society, natch ?
If the Asian countries are relatively middle-of-the-fence right now, it is because they want a leader, preferably one that can challenge China militarily -- US. And we
WILL be that challenge. Regardless of who will be the next US President, it is a given that the US will go to the utmost diplomatically. The Asian countries knows that. But if China want to make this a shooting fight, China will be alone, and she will lose -- badly.