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Originally Posted by Team Brian GB
I doubt China or India would warn us off, China especially as her navy as too far away around lower Indochina and is of a very limited capacity, though it is very problematic but there is precident.
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You think China's navy is only in the South China Sea and has a limited capacity? I'd be glad if you had some official sources.
I do have some anecdotal evidence - I've got some mates who've been diving the Burmah Banks other dive sites north of that for some years, and they say that almost every trip they make now they see a Chinese naval vessel. So they could have a minimal presence only, but I doubt it.
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Originally Posted by Team Brian GB
Whether it is illegal or not seems not to be as simple, there are some interpretations out there that humanitarian intervention is within international law.
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Yes, but what do you do after that? You're unlikely to be able to deliver enough food in a few days to keep hundreds of thousands of people going for at least a few months. In the meantime everyone turns nasty and refuses to cooperate because they claim (with some justification) that the West has broken international law. In the end, the same number of people die, possibly slightly later than otherwise, and the West loses the moral high ground everywhere but in their own eyes.