While I see the value of the Chinese sending a political message, at the end of the day armed men took property from unarmed men.
I see a lot of armed men sailing the South Pacific in the future, with orders to protect their property.
China may have out ran their headlights on this one. You can only bluff so many times.
Then again, it's not like they illegally seized Navy personnel and used them for propaganda tools. I mean, that's crazy right??
