IF peace be the intention of regular intrusion into Malaysias territorial waters by China, would it be any more acceptable? When warships and aircraft carriers from the United States, a nation thousands of miles from home with no business in the South China Sea other than muscling in because it can, is not a show of strength by another superpower with every right to make its presence felt, reasonable? More so now that the US has re-established its naval bases in the Philippines. Are non-aligned nations not entitled to deny the US that impunity, which comes in the form of exceptionalism? This is the crux of the problem with the waters of the South China Sea, where a faraway foreign nation ” its superpower status now well and truly challenged ” insists on being the sole global hegemon.
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