Is This How Wars Start? India and China Now Feud Over the South China Sea -- TimeLast week, one of the world's most intractable disputes got even stickier. News leaked that the international-arm of India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) was in talks with the government of Vietnam over hydrocarbon exploration rights in the South China Sea. In most parts of the world this would seem a routine bi-lateral development between two countries driven by their dynamic economies. But the South China Sea, whose waters are claimed to varying degree by half a dozen countries and almost in full by China, is unlike any body of water in the world, and where an oil company may see opportunity, most others only see a swirling geo-political maelstrom.
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My Comment: Is this how wars start .... in some cases yes .... but in this case .... no. Both countries do not have the mindset right now to start a military confrontation .... but the result of such a dispute will probably result in a massive arms buildup, a buildup that in turn will destabilize and impact the entire Asian continent and invite the prospect of war at some future date.
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