Germany is increasing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region | DW News

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1. Das ist richtig! est ist international Meer Danke Deutschland!

2. China is the only problem here. Encroaching on others EEZ, taking their natural resources while destroying its ecosystems and building artificial island… And the most important, disrupting Freedom of Navigation.

3. Germany has no military, the progressives took care of it.

4. Confused at why Germany is doing this. Germany is not like the US where its bases are virtually global, which forms island chains and its alliances forms Quad. US also has aircraft carrier moving around the region (This means US has a hugh interest in this region). China is not choking any of Germany's shipping routes. It's kind of peculiar as to the 'why' for this case (What is Germany's interest)??

   Btw, Trump recently had proposed that he would ask Taiwan to pay 10% of its GDP to defend itself, if he wins the election. US doesn't seem all that reliable. And because of the Israel lobby, it has little say about what Israel is doing currently (I feel kind of sorry for the US tax payers, that they are dragged into this rabbit hole whether they like it or not)

5. The return of the Jedi 🎉

6. Frankly if you couldn't even keep the Red Sea open and safe against the Houthis, what chance do you have against China and Russia ?

7. That uniform got some afrikakorps vibes

8. Germany can not even control its own border…🤣🤣🤣

9. Not ablesen to defend a against a Russian attack and wanting to play big power in the “Indo-Pacific” (an area so large, it does not even make sense

10. Its not their "interpretation of the law" lol
    Theyre gonna do what they wanna do unless stopped by force.

11. USA 's vessal state

12. Stay away from Australia

13. i love seeing germans take a stance internationally to support global efforts. wonderful

14. WW2: Allies + China against Militarist Japan
    WW3: Allies + Japan against CCP China

15. USA cleverly turned Germany into its attack dog? 😮

16. China is the real destabilizer of peace and stability in SCS. They can things to other countries about their histories but China's action today is not and will never be an excuse for them to hegemonize Asia.

17. Now is the time to change the names of All International waters/seas with country names. This will signal that no one owns those part of international waters. That all nations can navigate trhu those international waters freely.

18. what kind of reich is this?

19. Those German military posturing in the region was meant to uphold the UNCLOS ruling which invalidated the China 9 Dashline claims of the entire South-East-Indo-Pacific waters.

20. What a puppet 😂😂😂😂

21. Hahahha what the west doing in here😅

22. China scared of ramming their "Made in China" militia boats to these German-manufactured ships..

23. Southeast Asia has a lot of natural resources, such as natural gas, gold, and forests. If I were to be the leader, I would take over everything and not share it with anyone.

24. Germany is strong country

25. Ich verstehe eigentlich nicht, warum Deutschland in einen Streit im Fernen Osten eingreifen sollte? Sie müssen wissen, dass der russisch-ukrainische Krieg weitergeht. Europa hat noch viele Probleme zu lösen

26. intinya barat dan as adalah negara penjaja😝😝😝😝

27. Every country who join UN and sign agreement free trade they have to respect international waters rules .China don’t so the only way kick them out from UN and block Chinese to enter in the international waters

28. 97% is Chinese shipping, now what rocket scientist came up with the story about safe shipping ? who wants to control the maritime traffic. ?the west trying to choke off the trade in the south China sea. the U.S. and Philippines are not even signatory's to the convention of the sea. Germany literally on the other side of the world interfering

29. Germany flexing muscle again.. wew

30. How about stop calling it South China Sea.

31. I see double standards here.
    There's difference of interpretation of Territorial Water amongst NATO as well. While EU including Germany base it on IMOs definition of 12 Nautical Miles but the US doesn't respect that and says it to be 3 NM. Has Germany or EU or IMO ever challenged US on that stance?

32. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

33. The Chinese can only shadow so many then they surrounded.

34. With what do they increase ? There isnt a German fleet. Its a puny flotilla of way,way overpriced
    ships.

35. Is this all about Chinese growth

36. Germany never learn from treaty of Versailles 😂😂😂

37. Germany is deindustrializing! Nobody is worried about them

38. Will Germany continue to instruct and support Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu?Will Germany return to World War II?

39. If china really pursues war then the world's economy will be heavily affected. This is what im most scared of, specially that i live in a 3rd world country where our country's economy heavily relies on chinese exports to keep prices of things cheap.

40. The German better bring Bratwurst and Brezel to the Philippines if it docked in Manila.

41. How can you possibly have a good march at lunch time on such a small ship

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43. German and Japanese form military alliance… that's not a good memory

44. As an Indonesia, I dont agree !!
    Who allowed the Germans to pass? we will demonstrate, to block access for foreign military ships to pass through us.

45. now where are those chinese water canons???? are you afraid of germany??

46. Germany and Japan never learned their lesson. If it happens,It will be worse than WW2 for both