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Originally Posted by Oberon
The whole area is a mess in regards to territorial claims, although the real fun comes a bit further south-west in the Spratlys, just about everyone in the area claims that dirt.
Then there's the Liancourt Rocks, that's a South Korea vs Japan affair.
Taiwan fits into the issue somewhere as well.
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There was Tom Clancy's SSN...
I just wish we'd just barge in there and end the bickering once and for all.
"HERE! YOU TAKE THIS AND YOU TAKE THIS! YOU GET WHAT YOU GET AND YOU DON'T THROW A FIT!" just like you would to some fighting children on the playground.
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Originally Posted by Stealhead
@Red October as Skybird said all of this has much more to do with having the largest "exclusive economic zone" which allows a nation to control who is using the sea and land for anything economic fishing and what all else. A good example would be the Bearing Sea between Alaska and Russia.The US maintains a very large exclusive economic zone which covers most of the Bearing Sea a Russian,Canadian or Japanese (or any other nations) fishing vessel must pay a fee to have permission to fish or do anything profitable in those waters while a ship registered in the US does not have pay these fees and must only obey federal regulations on what they can and can not take the industrial version of game laws.
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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
Not so bambino buddy; war was never declared against China or Korea; it was a 'police action' and the second largest Chinese country in the world is the USA. Start learning Mandarin so it looks like ya' got some class!  |
Police Action is a bad way to classify it IMHO.
Now, "United Nations Intervention" is a better way I think. Since nobody really declared war....
I keep saying we should've ended it 60 years ago...
And China wouldnt fight us....neither would North Korea.
The DPRK can't support a war with that government, infrastructure and economy. They got enough on their plate as it is.
And if we get into it with China, what happens to the economies of us both? We both take a huge hit. There goes all this labor and goods just....poof.
And I doubt an invasion of the US could easily happen.
