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| China stakes a claim to North Korean territory |
| 2003-11-24 |
| This is the kind of thing that China has been doing throughout its millenia history (why do you think China is so big) - Manifest Destiny / Lebensraum arguments without the guilt. From the Marmot’s Hole: According to the piece, scholars from our Big Brothers to the East are beginning to claim that Koguryeo and Parhae - two ancient Korean kingdoms that occupied what is currently North Korea and parts of Manchuria - were actually administrative districts of China, Kojoseon - another ancient kingdom - was a colony founded by Chinese, and that the ethnic Koreans that ruled those kingdoms were, in fact, nothing more than Chinese ethnic minorities. This "unified multi-ethnic nation" school of thought, which is apparently receiving official backing from the Chinese government, appears to be more than simply an exercise in academics - some fear that the Chinese intend to use these arguments to press territorial disputes in the post-Korean unification era. Given the Chinese inclination of stressing their rights to "historical Chinese territories," perhaps this fear is not so far-fetched. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #1 --- some fear that the Chinese intend to use these arguments to press territorial disputes in the post-Korean unification era-- Do we have a timetable? What do they know??? |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2003-11-25 1:13:16 AM |