Hello, welcome to your extra morning news show. My name is Philip DeFranco with my co-host today,

loudest shirt that I own. And in this video we're going to be talking about possibly the

sexiest story of the day. We are talking hot, Chinese Chinese territorial disputes.

Right we're talking about why one of the biggest countries in the world, a world

power cares so much about a few tiny islands in the ocean.

With China even disagreeing with some neighbors over who owns islands in both the South and East China Sea.

So back in January, the US Navy ran what's called a Freedom of Navigation Operation,

and they sailed a destroyer 12 nautical miles from one of the disputed islands.

According to a Navy spokesman the operation was

meant to challenge excessive Chinese claims in the area and in response China

complained that the operation quote infringes on China's sovereignty. But of note

this isn't really a new thing. These operations have

happened before because the island disputes have been unresolved for a long time now.

So with that in mind, we wanted to take a look into why China cares so much. And there are a lot of

reasons why China cares.

But one reason we're going to talk about today is one you probably wouldn't expect.

And that is how outrage the country is over its own past and how much of those lasting frustrations

are affecting it right now.

So like I said China

disagrees with its neighbors over who owns parts of the South China Sea and

that sea borders a few countries including the Philippines Taiwan, Malaysia,

Vietnam, Indonesia, Brunei, and China.

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