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Ahhhhhh, now i understand. Thats why they bring military aircraft! How stupidly european of me.
Europeans have no problem with bringing military planes all over the world, doing joint exercises that simulate invading other countries, and building up stockpiled of weapons and supply chains to prepare for war with their enemies, and they think everyone who reacts badly to that is just overreacting. But God forbid the Chinese should have military planes defending an area that literally the world legally recognizes as party of China to defend against the constant military threats by the West.
It's orientalism at its finest. And we can't expect much from the EuroCentric world, orientalism is ingrained in their psyche - after all, they invented it.