Fish Quietly And Send A Big Gunboat

Chinese militarists direct a fleet of 10 fishing trawlers to intentionally violate Indonesia's Exclusive Economic Zone, then train gunboat weapons on the Indonesian Coast Guard ship that attempts to detain one of them.

The Klingons don't take prisoners, Mr. Saavik.

Chinese dictator Hu Jintao holding a dead cartoon fish. Caption: Your Natural Resources Are All Belong To Us.


UPDATE:  Related analysis by Gordon Chang here.

UPDATE #2:  Heh.  Daniel Drezner describes events such as these as part of China's shrewd "Pissing Off As Many Countries As Possible" grand strategy.


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I Can’t Look at Hobbles and I Can’t Stand Fences

Don't fence me in:

China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.

Used to think it was hyperbole to describe the PRC as "neo-fascist".  Maybe I was mistaken on that score.