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2018-01-31 China-Japan-Koreas
China as a ‘near Arctic state’ – chutzpah overcoming geography
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Posted by 3dc 2018-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 That picture looks like one of Sidney Paget's original illustrations for the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand. The guy on the far right looks like Holmes, trying to observe the guy's technique.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-01-31 11:41||   2018-01-31 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 So China will take over eastern Siberia? Not sure Russia can stop them.
Posted by Glenmore 2018-01-31 18:05||   2018-01-31 18:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "6.537th Holiest place in Islam Always part of the Upper Middle Kingdom"

I think we know how they see this playing out
Posted by Frank G 2018-01-31 19:59||   2018-01-31 19:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder how much fun could be had letting the Russians steal a draft agreement where the US is recognizing Chinese claims to Siberia in return for helping squash North Korea.

Definitely a contender for Snark o’the Day. Congratulations!
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2018-01-31 20:07||   2018-01-31 20:07|| Front Page Top

#5 This is the Chinese playbook through and through. Once upon a time, the empire was a smallish kingdom on the banks of the Yellow River. It was a peaceful country that kept expanding in order to counter the barbarians who kept raiding its land. Of course, it defined its land as anywhere its armies could raise their banners. The barbarians were incorporated into the empire as they were conquered, or as they conquered China, and claimed its lands as their own, and the original ruling families went from rulers to subjects, in many cases, of the erstwhile, but Sinicized barbarians.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-01-31 20:59||   2018-01-31 20:59|| Front Page Top

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