To be fair, it doesn't say Indonesia would have accepted our offer to salvage but for the fact that we didn't offer to pay.

Indonesian and Chinese relations are strengthening. Indonesia supports China's claim in the Senkaku island dispute. Supporting China as the regional maritime power may make sense for Indonesia.

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Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Indonesian and Chinese relations are strengthening. Indonesia supports China's claim in the Senkaku island dispute. Supporting China as the regional maritime power may make sense for Indonesia.

True....they are the ones living there and will have to deal with all their neighbors, which includes China.

From our (US) perspective, we see China imposing their will on smaller states using a combination of debt-trap diplomacy while pushing around country's fishing fleets, foisting low-quality medical care (Peruvian vaccine disaster anyone?) and outright taking over territory.

The Australians, who've made some good coin on livestock and mineral sales, along with port operations rights to China, has put their foot down. Remains to be seen if US/UK/Japan helps off-set their economic gamble by pissing off the CCP

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Originally posted by PASig:
Great…now the Chicoms will leave sensors that can tell when our boomers pass through there. Hell, what’s stopping them from planting mines?

How goddamn stupid can we be?

We have Joe and The Ho at the helm. It will only get worse.