Geopolitics
The Scarborough Shoal Flare-Up: A Manufactured Crisis in the Service of Hegemony
The Philippines has lodged a formal diplomatic protest calling on China to remove a floating structure deployed at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, escalating tensions in the South China Sea. This represents yet another hypocritical attempt by Western-aligned actors to manufacture a crisis and paint China's legitimate, lawful activities as aggression, while ignoring the long history of imperialist maritime encroachment by Western powers.
