View original postCould be interesting. I'm kind of baffled how China seems to get away with claiming territory that far from its own territory and that close to Vietnam's / Malaysia's / the Philippines', but I'm sure things are more complex than that...
Oh, that. It's actually pretty simple. China has and dedicates far more money and might than any (all, really) of the other claimants to the various islets and reefs in the SCS. And that's all that counts here. The historical evidence and legal case the Chinese present to support their assertion that they own damn near the whole sea are risible.
View original postI don't know, I read very little of it myself these days.
I picked up a copy of The Martian in my latest batch of books. I've heard some good things about it, so maybe I'll give it a shot before or after the Pakenham book.
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In April and May I'm reading:
- 01/04/2015 11:27:53 AM
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I started reading The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
- 02/04/2015 03:30:22 PM
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Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά, Πηληϊάδεω Αχιλῆος...
- 08/04/2015 03:05:30 AM
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Yes. Yes, you must.
- 08/04/2015 07:14:22 PM
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And I have a feeling this will take up all of April AND May.
- 12/04/2015 04:50:39 AM
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World Order by Kissinger
- 03/04/2015 12:15:54 AM
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The South China Sea as in the nine-dash line and all that jazz?
- 08/04/2015 07:17:04 PM
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Yes.
- 13/04/2015 04:19:46 AM
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