South China Sea and China (2011-2017)

[jmm99]

Amer-Indians did manage independently to invent the wheel, but used them on toys. Unfortunately, for their military capabilitries, they never received the Irish saying that "guns are dangerous toys". Otherwise, Cortes would have been met by cannon - and the rest would have been His Story (that is, Montezuma's).

Anything having Indian in it is fine.

But consider Canada, where all "status Indian groups" are First Nations. So, a "status Indian" must then be a "First National".

The First Nationals are coming !; the First Nationals are coming !

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The Chinese are coming !; the Chinese are coming !

And, to illustrate that, we have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China, "The Issue of South China Sea" (June 2000), in five parts - and still the official statement of the claims:

(1) Its Origin, The Issue of South China Sea

(2) Historical Evidence To Support China's Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands

(3) Jurisprudential Evidence To Support China's Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands

(4) International Recognition Of China's Sovereignty over the Nansha Islands

(5) Basic Stance and Policy of the Chinese Government in Solving the South China Sea Issue

As a counter-point, here are two articles - viewing the Chinese claims less favorably - written by the guy (Jerome Cohen) who provided us with our Chinese Communist Law textbook in the late 60s.

2010 Cohen, China's Claims to the South China Sea

2010 Cohen, China and its Ocean Disputes

Regards

Mike