In case you didn’t have a sense of the scale of 🇨🇳 overseas fishing fleets
Strip mining the ocean of life and leaving it bare for those who rely on it
Dozens of ships as far as the eye can see
For months and years at a time
Why is New York the richest city in America?
By rights, New Orleans should be the largest city in America—it's the natural entrepôt for the entire Heartland
The only reason it's not is because shortly after we purchased Louisiana, New York built the Erie Canal
"Clinton's
Regular reminder that New Orleans is the most strategically important city in the United States and the only reason we don't think about it is because the U.S. has controlled it for almost 200 years
The United States is a big island on the far side of the world from everything. Sea power is the sine qua non of American power. Full stop.
The creation of the DOD in 1947 means that for 75 years, the Navy & Marines have been outgunned in bureaucratic battles by the Air-Land
The U.S. is a maritime power. Its security and prosperity is predicated on control of the sea lanes. America's lack of merchant shipping and shipyard capacity is a true national security threat. The fact the Army and Air Force maintain de-facto control over national security
Annihilating the fish stocks of other countries is a feature—not a bug—of China's illegal fishing
Small, maritime states suddenly lose a main food source? I wonder who will be there to swoop in with strings-attached aid
They'll remember China killed fishing, but have no choice
China is depleting the world's oceans of fish. Estimates are between 200,000 - 800,000 fishing vessels, going as far as Argentina.
They account for ~half of the worlds fishing catch and do not respect stewardship protocols to preserve ecosystems.
This is power projection.
Regular reminder that New Orleans is the most strategically important city in the United States and the only reason we don't think about it is because the U.S. has controlled it for almost 200 years
Argentina just did what most countries are too scared to do- they sank a Chinese boat that was stealing their fish.
The Chinese trawler was fishing illegally in Argentina’s waters.
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