#MANILA, #Philippines – Every 12th of July, the Philippines – and its allies and friends – commemorate the 2016 arbitral award, a landmark ruling that said #China’s sweeping #9DashLine claim had no basis in #InternationalLaw. #WestPHSea

WATCH: What the 2016 arbitral ruling says and doesn’t say about the #WestPhilippineSea
https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/podcasts-videos/video-summary-2016-arbitral-ruling-west-sea/

The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.

Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?

The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.

#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6

Could you do a blurb on your feelings about "pro-China" comments too?

Complete with a "fun fact"?

Maybe even one about the #CCP, or is that *too* complicated?

Some people recognize the #chinese #dictatorship to be an entity separate from its disenfranchised subjects.

#china #imperialism #colonialism #Tibet #Hongkong #Mongolia #Uighurs #9dashline
@liztai