Similarly, China is staking its claim to the South China Sea in full violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the basis of vague histories of bygone empires. Both countries are now behaving as if power is a zero-sum game dictated by the old rules of realpolitik.
同样，中国也基于昔日帝国的模糊历史全然不顾联合国海洋法公约主张其对南海的权力。两国都表现得好像权力是现实政治旧规则决定的零和游戏。