China’s Foreign Ministry said Pompeo was just trying “stir up trouble for other countries.”
But Pompeo’s rebuke is about more than fish. Governments often use the fishing industry to advance their diplomatic agenda, as my work as a historian of fishing and American foreign relations shows. The United States used fishing, directly and indirectly, to build its international empire from its founding through the 20th century. Now China’s doing it, too.
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US-China fight over fishing is really about world domination
I feel sorry for the fish.
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