• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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      4 months ago

      It factors into China’s ambitions to control the entire South China Sea:

      Straight-up imperialism. All your ocean are belong to us.

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        That “China/Taiwan” is just kinda thrown in there without even an asterisk or anything

        (Actually I guess leaving Taiwan out of the legend entirely would have looked like an accident or something, and having a separate color for it would have been a huge deal and they’d have started to get phone calls, and so they just shrugged and put that down and said you know what it’s not a perfect world let’s move on)

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          There’s also that both PRC and ROC claim the area. IIRC, Taiwan actually claims three extra dashes.

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            Bloody hell, you are right (well, sort of; apparently it’s complex.) That’s convenient for the map makers, I guess, although best of luck to them in enforcing any of it (and according to that article they’ve sort of clarified that that doesn’t mean they’re actually claiming the sea, as best as I can understand it.)

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      4 months ago

      Anything China wants becomes “disputed” so they have an excuse to act like bullies.