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The recognized-by-treaty international boundary is 12 nautical miles.

As long as we're outside of that, we have every right to be there, and they have no right to try and intimidate us into moving further out.

In fact, an attempt to forcibly expand their boundary past the 12 NM limit should be considered an act of war, even if no one else claims that part of the sea. The sea frontier is an admittedly arbitrary limit, but exceptions to it should be agreed upon by mutual treaty, not by bullying. Any attempt to re-define it by force is an act of aggression, and should be treated as such. In fact, we should now start aggressively patrolling that frontier, with armed escorts, right up to the 12 mile limit, just to show we mean business. Any other response would only be met by more intimidation and more bullying.

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