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German navy vessels sail through Taiwan Strait (www.dw.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Despite Chinese protests about the use of the waterway — which it claims jurisdiction over — German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has insisted that the ships are in international waters.

A German warship and an accompanying navy vessel entered the Taiwan Strait on Friday, despite protests from China, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan and asserts influence over the body of water.

"International waters are international waters," said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Friday at a press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Laurynas Kasciunas.

"It's the shortest route and, given the weather conditions, the safest, so we're going through."

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The use of the strait angers Beijing, but it is officially an international waterway and major trade route through which around half of global container ships pass.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I'm using the term "allowed" in the sense of "China agreed to this and put it in its own law". Freedom of navigations exercises are a way to tell a country "Do what you promised, we are willing to fight you about it if you don't". Since China has not actually stopped this exercise, it is following the treaty despite all its complaints. Even America follows the treaty, despite having not signed it.

Being signatories to a treaty is not decisive if no one follows the treaty.

Yeah, this is true. The treaty is just the specific set of terms (almost) everyone agreed to and continues to follow. Since everyone almost everyone agreed to it and everyome does follow it, it's an easy point of reference to get international cooperation on. I'm sure the reaction would be quite different if China had fired on this ship vs if it had done so in a world with no agreements on territorial waters and innocent passage. In the latter case, a lot of countries would probably just tell Germany "well why did you sail a gunship where you weren't supposed to?"