The Falklands are legally a British land territory.
So we have a valid lease which Cuba recognised on Cuban land territory.

"The Rio Treaty, which was signed in 1947 and entered into force in 1948, is a collective security pact among 19 of the
35 countries of the Western Hemisphere. The United States ratified the treaty in 1947 after the U.S. Senate provided its
advice and consent. Article 3 of the treaty asserts than "an armed attack by any State against an American State shall be
considered as an attack against all American States," and it calls on each party to the treaty to assist in collective selfdefense. Article 6 of the treaty, which was invoked in this case, empowers states parties to collectively respond to any other "situation that might endanger the peace" of the region".

"Tensions between Beijing and Manila over the South China Sea have risen another notch after the Philippines' Foreign Secretary published an obscene tweet to order Chinese ships to leave the disputed waters.

"China, my friend, how politely can I put it? Let me see.... O.... GET THE bugger OUT," tweeted Teodoro Locsin, who is known for colourful language on social media."What are you doing to our friendship? You. Not us. We're trying. You. You're like an ugly oaf forcing your attentions on a handsome guy who wants to be a friend; not to father a Chinese province ..."

The Foreign Secretary's expletive-riddled language is the latest in an escalating row between the nations over the continued incursion of Chinese coastguard ships and fishing boats into resource-rich waters inside the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). An international tribunal invalidated China's claim to 90 per cent of the South China Sea in 2016, but Beijing has never recognised the ruling and calls it "a sham".

But probably the first to impose one within another country's EEZ. And impose control over a sea far from its border.  And without legal right to territory.

"The Rio Treaty, which was signed in 1947 and entered into force in 1948, is a collective security pact among 19 of the
35 countries of the Western Hemisphere.  Article 3 of the treaty asserts than "an armed attack by any State against an American State shall be considered as an attack against all American States," and it calls on each party to the treaty to assist in collective selfdefense. Article 6 of the treaty, which was invoked in this case, empowers states parties to collectively respond to any other "situation that might endanger the peace" of the region".

Cuba was a member 1948-1962.

1,400 American-trained Cubans attacked Cuba.  They were not a State.
The US exclusion zone was a military limit around its legal lease. The USSR was bringing in weapons from a non-Americas State. That's 2 legal bases for the US zone.

The China zone is in effect a pirate territory, without legal land. The piracy exists in the Himalayas in similarly contested territory. The gathering of varied naval ships in South China sea shows the unity against the piracy.

Well OK if you want to back off from China's policy.
PLO and Hamas are at war with Israel but Philippines just wants to go fishing.

issuevoter wrote on Aug 11^th, 2021 at 3:06pm:


Taiwan is shagged. It has overpopulated the pimple of land it occupies and will probably experience horrendous effects from climate change including shrinkage and collapse of some of the land it occupies as the sea pummels the island.

The people are looking forward to the shrinkage of the population from negative population growth.

I doubt that China really wants to take over Taiwan other than the land itself as a defence outpost.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 10^th, 2021 at 2:49pm:

It only takes one idiot to start a shooting war. Remember the idiot Commander Will Rogers of the USA who shot down an Iranian civil aircraft Iran Air flight 655 killing 290 people.

To add insult to injury the USA even gave this war crime perpetrator, Commander Will Rogers, a medal.

"The July 3, 1988, downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy remains one of the moments the Iranian government points to in its decades-long distrust of America. They rank it alongside the 1953 CIA-backed coup that toppled its elected prime minister and secured Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s absolute power until he abdicated the throne before the 1979 Islamic Revolution."