Chinese Agression in the South China Sea (And More, in this weeks Situation Room)
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This channel really does drive home how selective the mainstream media is about which conflicts they cover and which ones they don't.
Well yes as many or most media sources are owned by the same few conglomerates at least in the U.S. similar paradigm in a fair few other countries too.
Are you crazy? Everything everyone does is selective. If not, you will never accomplish your goals, big or small. Imagine going through the day not being selective on what you do. Crazy. Yes, businesses and corporations are selective on what they do, and that's the reality.
@@talkinghand4839 They are selective because of interest which may not align with the broader publics. This state should not be mistaken for a natural objective metric.
I don't know what you're talking about. Everything Simon covered in this video has been on my Google news feed all week
@@talkinghand4839 "Everything everyone does is selective. If not, you will never accomplish your goals"
That's exactly my point - they have goals. Which do not include keeping us accurately informed.
International laws require international enforcement to mean anything.
I mean its like war crimes - theres no war police
No..?? Attacking someone in international waters is a VERY big act of hostility. If anything, get onto China for being dickwads if you wanna say "War crimes."
Don't use that term lightly, mate.
I 100% agree. What is the point of two disputing countries going to an international court to resolve a problem, typically land and territorial disputes, if one of the two countries rejects the court’s decision and authority when the court falls in favor to the other country. And the issue continues to be unresolved.
The Venezuela vs Guyana is the most recent example.
“Force is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.”
The problem with that is making countries surrender their sovereignty over to an international group that could be completely counter to their interests.
Would this international program follow western democracies’ beliefs or would it be more authoritarian like China or North Korea. How would you force countries that refuse to help the international effort to work with it; like hypothetically making the us provide aid if the UN decides that Israel needs to be removed from the Middle East
I feel like a President getting my weekly briefing on military conflicts around the globe. Love this video idea !!
🎯🎯💯 👍
I swear. I just subscribed after watching this video.
@@amaterasuoderaI’ve been subscribed for around 6 months, and it’s one of my main news sources. I quite enjoy it.
lmao
@@xAntoIRL relax I know I’m not president…. Yet
Not sure if it was mentioned, but an Australian warship had a Chinese fishing net caught in its propellers.
While Australian divers had been working to remove the netting, a PLAN vessel approached the Aussie ship. Aussies communicated they had divers in the water, recieved PLAN confirmation, then the Chinese vessel continued to "ping" near the divers. From such close range this ping severely wounded the divers, resulting in career ending injuries
Probably shouldn't have attacked the Chinese vessel then. It's called the South China sea for a reason, why is Australia even there
@@mingyuhuang8944 typical 50¢ army low hanging fruit
@mingyuhuang8944 There is also the Sea of Japan. Doesn't mean Japan has economic/resource rights over the entirety of it. There is also the Gulf of Mexico. Should Mexico claim the entire gulf as their economic zone discarding the island nations up to relative distant to their coast? So ignorant. 😂
@mingyuhuang8944 international waters in the Pacific, yo. Aussie ship didn't attack the PLAN ship? Australian ship did inform other ships in the region what was going on, and make it clear they had divers in the water. Chinese vessel traveled to the Australian vessel to what the Aussies thought was to render aid. But nope! They let loose a ping to injure Australian divers. They're lucky it didn't kill them.
PLAN had a chance to help the Australians and get a massive PR win, and look good...instead they were hostile
@@andrewhall2235 china hated spotted lmao troll
The writers and researchers on this video nailed it....to condense the amount of all the details usually ignored by the media into a 40 min video can't be appreciated enough.
Absolutely loving these Situation Room episodes!
Needs better background music.
Ozzy ?
1:10 - Chapter 1 - South china sea
10:55 - Chapter 2 - Collapse of the G5 sahel alliance
22:25 - Chapter 3 - Burkina faso
31:20 - Chapter 4 - War in the cities of myanmar
If your not on Warographics payroll *THIS IS WEIRD*
@@Abandon_All_HopeI'm also timestamping, Biographics/Geographics/Megaprojects/Sideprojects/Casual Criminalist/Decoding the Unknown & Into the Shadows
A few weeks ago, China blasted an Aussie Naval ship with active sonar. They new the Aussie ship had divers in the water clearing a fouled propeller and still approached and blasted the divers. Luckily, the divers got away only with busted ear drums. And this happened in Japan's economic zone. China is a danger.
When it comes to professionalism, don't look to the PLA. They have the record to prove it.
@@talkinghand4839 wankinghand what pla mean
People’s Liberation Army - Chinese Military
They’re known for being exceptionally gung-ho, like all militaries. However they have a long and proven track-record of having absolutely no concept of professionalism. They’re jerks with guns.
@@ddizon666people’s liberation army
How about the Aussie navy stays in Aussie territorial waters? 🙃 Just a thought
Do you ever wonder if this is what it felt like for those in the know in 1914? Watching all the threads get pulled from different ends helpless to stop it from unraveling.
Simon is a reborn Walter Cronkite who was the real news reporter telling it like it is
Simon and the Warographoics team, I truly appreciate this particular show, and I look forward to it in order to have the most neutral yet compassionte news and information on the turmoil all over the Planet. I really hope The Situation Room will continue to be produced, tho I worry that TH-cam will find some excuse to de-monetize the videos. If so, tell us viewers, I am fine offering a SuperThanks in exchange for this information, so it can continue to be updated and brought out.
@@PatrickBateman13r31what's it to you?🤨
As much as we all appreciate your channel and its content, we hope you are getting rest. The world continues to flame and it we wouldn’t want to see you overworked. That being said, amazing video, I add these to my geopolitics playlist.
For your reference, those “collisions” are almost intentional. Those patrol boats are ridiculous large and were designed to ram other ship. You can always ram a smaller ship and brush it off as an unfortunate accident.
The trend perhaps started with the 5000 ton Japanese Mizuho class patrol boats “accidentally collided” with some Chinese “fishing boats”. Obviously Chinese navy/coast guards found it to be a good idea and started building larger patrol boats and converting old navy ships.
The larger Chinese patrol boats have displacement of 5000 tons, which is about size of a ww2 light cruiser. The largest patrol boat, if you can still call it a patrol boat, is like 12000 tons, which is larger than the Arleigh Burke class destroyer, or the Moskva which viewers of this channel are definitely familiar with.
China being China again
And getting away with it again.
Yep. Fascist imperialists.
China? You mean West Taiwan?
@AriDanielsMusic yeah the traitorist state acting without approval from taiwan leadership
@@AriDanielsMusicTaiwan is a fake country just another American puppet
I believe Simon is the biggest TH-camr with the most channels and videos being produced. Good on ya Simon, thx for all the information over many different topics 👏
Simontube!
He is very good but he just reads stuff written by several other people.
@JimboJamboJames not anyone can do that and also be captivating in their videos. I know for certain if Danny or Kevin gave me a script I'd get one or two views, probably my own checking the video actually went up.
@@JimboJamboJameshe isn’t just the narrator. He oversees the production and direction of all his channels. Yes, he has writers, editors and other staff, but he is the one that oversees it all and owns a stake in all of them.
He used to narrate for other people on other channels, but it is known he owns at least a minority stake in all the channels he hosts and oversees production in of all them.
DikRiderz😂
China hasn’t protected it’s own cargo ships in Red Sea 😂
Because they are a paper dragon 😂. They cannot show the failure of their technology in actual combat. Made in china 🤣
Thank you again for covering the lesser-known conflicts like Myanmar and Burkina Faso.
Could you guys please talk about when China hit Australian Navy Divers with Sonar when they were freeing an Australian Frigate from fishing nets on islands on the east-coast of Japan?
Just be glad he's at least somewhat getting into China's shenanigans. Mentioned China's extensive propaganda under another video, and he pulled the "I've been [on a highly controlled tour likely with a "handler" present] to Beijing, have you?" card, as if there's no videos showing the truth so clearly by this point. He's been tricked by them like so many, and so it will take some time before his vision fully clears.
No, because Australia is an ant. A tiny, irrelevant ant. A puppet controlled by US interests. And I say this as an Australian.
@@Vaeldargwhich video? I'm curious to go see it.
@@kingnekogon Which kind? Where Simon is going by propaganda (other comments under this one have brought up him mentioning China's "aircraft carrier" knock-offs as if they were fully functional), or one of the many showing the real China?
I love the "signing off" at the end, makes it feel like a "fireside chat"
think warographics is my favourite of simons channels but
have noticed that the eerie backing track on the vidoes on
here and especially decoding the unknown seem to be
getting louder and more distracting , i find it really grating ;/
Nothing beats the brain blaze channel of factboi !
Simon, I have learned so much from you and your team on a host of topics. You are one of my favourite channels and I frequently refer friends to your page.
Your content would be wildly improved if you took the time to learn how locals pronounce various cities/regions around the world. Denying the importance of this comes across as a certain level of stubborn ignorance, as opposed to the very well informed personality we know you to be.
Keep making great stuff. God knows we need it more than ever.
Great content and I appreciate the quality delivery as always - can’t miss these weekly updates! Thank you
Thx for covering these Simon. You are doing great work!
These episodes are great! Whoever came up with the situationroom is a genius.
Then China cries about US warships being in the West Philippine Sea
The name “south China sea” should be changed, maybe to “west Philipine sea” or “south east Asian sea”
Call it the SEASea or Cici if you will
maybe South Japan sea?
West Taiwan sea
Any name that is not the China’s Southern Lake or whatever they call it beats China’s claim to sea
@@user-ho2hg1pf3kthat's far from Japan's territory 💀
Great episode! Thanks Simon
I would like to say thank-you to you, Simon, for presenting these "Situation Room" videos, This is something I strongly believe we need; purposeful, unbiased reporting of the facts on the ground. An educated and informed populace can do more than an angry, reactive one. So this is much appreciated, and I encourage you to continue bringing us topics of importance in these hectic, and quite harrowing times. Thank you again.
I love these Situation Rooms because I learn a lot; I feel much more informed than before I started watching them.
i would recommend you follow up the vids without your own searching on the covered topics. His script writers can't catch all nuance and are prone to "pick sides" in presentation which can color perception. But yeah....I won't deny he covers thing most others won't or don't
Thank you for this really fascinating video! I thought I was well informed, but you consistently cover stories I've never heard of before. The news is sobering, but your coverage of it is wonderful.
The best part of this is how I can take a week off on reading up on what’s going on and knowing Simon got me is awesome keep it up brotha
Thanks for keeping us informed buddy
Thank you simon for showing the world what we filipinos are dealing with 😢
Great production! Thanks
Oh boy 2 am Simon video is here!
It amazing to see how better in informing these youtube channels are compaired to mainstrain media which seems to repeat their on propaganda only creating confusion on the subject making them less and less relevant
too much money in it
Surprised there wasn't an update on the Red Sea Crisis. Last I heard a Norwegian MV had been attacked by the Houthi. At the very least that's 2 British, 1 Norwegian Merchant Vessels and 1 American Destroyer being attacked.
All I can say is 😲 WOW. Simon I've been watching you for years and your content has improved immensely.
Alliance of Sahel States. A.S.S.? That’s an interesting acronym.
Would you do an updated report on the conflict in Ukraine? It may be painful, yet necessary.
Stay safe Simon!
Very important lesson from history... Don't touch America's Boats. Most of the wars America has fought in started with another country touching their boats.
Really informative
Simon, thanks to your team of writers, you have evolved into a very capable presenter.
Thanks!
Thanks for all the content ❤
Winnie Pooh Pirate Militia: Pffft, you are just too slow to dodge, it is your fault our ship hit your boat.
I was in Burkina Faso in 2011, i came in through Mali, and i really enjoyed both countries such a shame what is happening there.
The South Asian Sea you mean 😊😊
West Taiwan sea
South Of China Sea
That McBeth quote got me 😂
I just realized you’re the same dude from mega projects and I’ve watched both channels for a while😂
You’re a busy man!
Can’t wait for the new DLC 😂 ❤
2am? C'mon, I was just about to go to bed man! xD
Honestly love these situation rooms, there’s so many issues around the world we never here about
Thank you to the team!
An amazing episode, but it would really help to include some maps (the channel has the word "graphics") in it. I mean I live in Niger and wrote my master thesis on the rebels in Mynanmar but I am still quite lost where what happened in this episode.
However, keep up the good work.
Offering a comprehensive viewpoint and an accurate assessment of the situation. It is crucial to understand that No Country nor Nation on Earth possesses exclusive ownership of an entire sea or ocean except for the Exclusive Economic Zones or EEZ’s of each country, This fact is delineated by the UNCLOS law, to which China willingly committed itself to obey by signing the law on December 10, 1982. The designation "South China Sea" does not imply China owns it. Just as the Gulf of Mexico is not owned by Mexico, the Sea of Japan is not owned by Japan, and the Indian Ocean is not owned by India. This are directional pathways in maps for navigational and travel purposes.
Any attempt to justify or assert historical claims over entire seas or oceans lacks logical or legal grounding in the current international relations landscape. Allowing China, or any nation, to lay claim to nearly an entire sea goes against established laws, particularly those safeguarding freedom of navigation as outlined in the UNCLOS. This not only poses a threat to the freedom of passage for countries trading with Southeast Asian nations or to international vessels traversing said body of water for official or leisure purposes, but this also raises concerns about the imposition of China's trade and maritime laws to others when the South China Sea will be under China’s control and possession.
The ongoing patriotic defense by the Philippines to protect its EEZ in the West Philippine Sea should actually and honestly be a global concern. Allowing such expansive claims of China could not only disrupt free trade but also set a precedent for other nations to follow suit, jeopardizing established maritime practices, decrees and protocols worldwide.
More visuals and maps plz
Suberb video, very informative - also without the horrendous tv voice edit - marvelous stuff \o/
Omg that TV voice edit kills me every time
that background tune, is that from the game cold waters??
As an Australian I am really concerned about the Chinese threat, a lot of people say that Australia's strategy's is to rely and assist the US but it isn't enough, we have less then a hundred thousand people in the entire armed forces. We face a defensive dilemma that Nazi Germany faced in the 40s, there is too much coastline to defend and not enough men to do it. I mean fuck it we need proper aircraft carriers, not helicopter carriers, ones that can carry planes. We have less then 50 ships in our Navy, it is nowhere near enough but its the same issue Japan faces, can we convince our people that military expansion is needed? Australia needs a larger Navy, Army and to a lesser extent Air Force if we are to be able to at least hold our own against the Chinese PLA. The irony is that we probably assisted China reach this point inadvertently. When we retired our Majestic class carriers we sent them to China to be sold for scrap because no one thought China would be making Aircraft Carriers soon. We left a hell of a lot of tech onboard which would of helped with reverse engineering.
YEAH I JUST LOOKED IT UP, WE HAVE LESS SHIPA AND PERSONNELL THAN THE PHILLIPINES
中国大陆人。完全不理解这种莫名其妙的威胁论宣传，你只用查一下中澳每年的贸易额还有多少人移民/留学澳大利亚就知道两国间完全没有战争风险，澳大利亚离中国、美国足够远，足够安全。
Please help incite a lot of people on social media to join in boycotting Chinese products Usa and Japan move all factories to India. from Thailand.
Less than 100k? It's less than 50k my guy we have an armed force of around 30k haha although every single member of said armed force is trained and maintained to a standard even Chinese special forces could only dream of, we need to grow our navy and air force more than anything, the army can't do much in an ocean locked nation, we need power projection, we have all the capability our population has just been brainwashed into thinking we're safe by location or that the US would help, they did fk all in New Guinea, they were busy elsewhere, who's to say they won't be busy next time as well? We are in a horrible situation strategically, as usual the only reason we feel so safe is distance from the threat and the difficulty of taking us on, we truly do have one of the most elite militaries on the planet, but we lose at the numbers game, 1 f35 may comfortably take out a dozen Chinese aircraft without much issue, but what about when there's 2 dozen? 3 dozen? Our pilots need the tools to defend us they just never get the funding needed to grow, because our politicians are a disgrace and think we don't need national defence, and they don't want America to get sad that we don't pay them to defend us
The Chinese are not like us. They are not bloodthirsty like us. When they first visited Australia, they came and left. When UK first visited Australia, it colonized australia after killing most of the abos. That's the difference in culture and mentality.
Wait, is that background music the title screen music for Dying Light???
For the first ten minutes, the music changes after that - but the entire time I could not stop thinking how much it sounds like the opening music for Dying Light.
I truly appreciate your channels and fantastically clear oration. Keep it up, please. and yes every person is entitled to their own opinion, one of the most scary things is that your reporting of a lot of things is actually very true and informative. There just are no real people left that have the balls and guts to do anything about the shit that seems to surround the world anymore. And that ugain unfortunately is the spinless world we seem to live in. I realise that you, yourself have children and I wish them a great future and prosperity forever. This shit we seem to live in now would never have become so; quite simply because diplomacy bullshit seems to take the place of guts and honor,
Guess it's time for me to buy that new computer
Really insightful series that brings light to flashpoints that we need to keep an eye on. Thank you for this and keep up the great work.
Minor pronunciation points:
- Ouagadougou is pronounced "Wagaduuuguuu".
- The people of Burkina Faso are "Burkeeena bey"
often turns out that sometimes super powers need to chill the fk out
China isn't a superpower, and that's part of the reason they seethe eternally on social media
You guys should turn these videos into podcasts
What's that background music at the start of the video? I really like it?
Perhaps the Phillipines should take a leaf out of Iceland's book during the ahem 'Cod wars'.
well Iceland uses the "leaving the NATO card", while the Philippines can't really do that. Especially because of the fact that China doesn't even want to follow the 2016 international ruling regarding the matter... not even the international laws that resulted from the Cod wars which was the 200 Nautical Miles EEZones.... Unfortunately
I'm familiar with the Cod Wars but there's nothing that I'm aware of that Iceland did that could work for the Philippines, at least as far as I can remember. What specifically could the Philippines do that Iceland did?
time to renamed the north/south china sea to random names
Bullies will continue to bully you, until/unless you hit back.
That uncle vs telephone pole reference sounds too specific to not be completely true.
Recently flew from japan to bangkok. We were over the south china sea.
Our plane had tonmove more south because we were too close.
Every single city that was on thenmap was blacked out. Along the coast.
I saw this with my own eyes
What's with the loud soundtrack that comes in every so often throughout the video ??
Aggression * still love you papa simon 😆
The strait of malacca is vitally important to China. The vast majority of all their trade goes through it. Particularly inbound oil from the Middle East. Because of this, they will do anything to maintain control of that area.
Unless there’s a peaceful, pro-China Myanmar. In that case, they will build roads from southern China to port cities in Myanmar. That’s their ultimate dream. That way they could bypass the Malacca strait. That’s part of the reason they may be turning toward the rebels. The junta has always been isolationist and wary of China, while the civilian government warmed up to them. They also realize that the military will never pacify the northern areas they want to build their road across.
And that justifies aggressive actions? That fact is true for all countries in the area, except China is the only one who interferes with freedom of navigation.
@@BubbaistEven with a pro-China Myanmar, they can't build a pipeline or other infrastructure through those mountains sufficient to reroute their Malacca imports. If China continues to escalate, expect to see a blockade at Singapore.
My god, man! I can't keep up with the channels. New Channel idea. Whistler Watch. Keep track of what's going in with ol Whistle boy.
It's really nice to get unbiased reports as to what's going on in the world. You never hear about a lot of this on the mainstream media.
Thank you Simon for reporting on these things.
Battlefield 4 and black ops 2 are looking very accurate rn
have you changed your mic setup recently? something sounds off with the audio. and it keeps picking up every little tsss noise you make.
wow that expert at 7:30 thinking really hard about that in his think tank i guess. it can stay this way or it gets better or worse. brilliant
what time is it for you guys? it's around 3:30 am for me
I know Simon is in Prague, but I don't know if his editor/producer (Jennifer) is also in Europe; if so, she would have uploaded the video around 8 pm. If she’s in the US, then it would have been between 1 am (if she’s East Coast) & 5 am (if she's West Coast).
Oh neat!@@augiegirl1
I like how he says "Chiner" lol
It's crazy of how polarized our country is, the narratives are different from side to side.
Wine da pooh is tweaking
*You left out the most important context- SOUTH THOMAS SHOWL IS INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AS 🇵🇭 EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE EEZ*
It was at julian Felipe Reef inside Philippine EEZ
Simon you misspelled aggression
please do a video on these
(this is a copy and paste list for a few channels)
units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches)
like the 82 snd 101 airborne units
or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently)
the tank doctrine of countries
evaluation of tank veiw ports
evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries
evaluation of aircraft types of different countries,
different between navil and army/air force fighters
logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2
ww1 estern front tactics
Russian Civil war tactics and strategies
navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works)
evaluation of types of ships
or evaluation of navil warfare
air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries)
ancient persan ships,
ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser)
ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic
the vernesain republic government
all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out)
2b9 vasilyok morter
tactics used so far in the Ukraine war,
better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3,
and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal
how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks,
ancient urban warfare
ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war)
tactics in the ruso jap war
cold war navil tactics,
Korean war tactics,
strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil war
how were 17th centry sailing ships build
types of bombs lunched by drones
comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say)
why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations)
why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot
alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this
From a channel called the Roman Order, I'd at least expect one paragraph about Rome
@@RedmondBarryII i do love rome, but i know what im concerd of,
Yes its nice to know more..
But its anoying how i can't find anything that's on this list so must ssk around
Sometimes other great commenters answer for me
@@theromanorder certainly some interesting topics. I can see Drachinifel or Perun cover a couple of them, if they havent already
What's the background music playing called? Especially at 9:40
Shirtless Drunk uncle fighting a telephone pole?? Wtf haha 2:16
The 'S' sounds are way too sharp in this video. Its an easy fix in editing or post-processing.
The hype around China and Taiwan war is insane feel like some YA in the 1930s just waiting for it to kick off. Stay safe people
The path to WWII started escalating about a decade prior. The signs were clear with the wars going on, but everyone ignored them until it got too big
Why did you post so late
What happened to the sound since a few videos? Looks like you are talking in a box.
2:15 how often does that happen in the UK?
Do u think that The huti will mine The strait?
If oil ever becomes scarce the world is going to be a dangerous place
Most of my news comes from your and Peter Zeihan. Thank you for keeping us Americans in the loop. Our legacy news groups are too busy with political divisions to actually report real news.
You never hear any of this on main media
OOOHHHH! So you've been saying "Junta" not "Hunter"/"Hoonter". Man, that was really messing with me for a while.