Loudmouth
China's waters reach the high-rise mark on Vancouver waterfront of Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC). The only hope for avoiding demolition of Japan is the Irish map of Saint Brendan of Clonfert ( 484 – 577AD) in Viking Latin which proves he sailed around Canada in the peat-fire Global Warming , wearing green and blessed the whales and coral reef. Michi's kamikaze tuna spearmen will join IRA river dancers in liberating Chinese fishing boat slaves.

Hi Nick,

Yes, you could be onto something. After all, Iceland can just as easily lay such claims to Greenland Canada and the north-east of the US too. Roman coins have been found in Malaya, so clearly it should belong to Rome, and therefore Italy, including the seas in between. How else can anybody explain how they got there ? The Vikings founded Moscow and Dublin and Edinburgh, so clearly Norway should be able to seize them back, including all waterways in between.

And don't let's get started on Mesopotamia and the Middle East :) Nobody mention Out-Of-Africa either. Which the Chinese don't believe, by the way: they ignore DNA and claim that their ancestors sprang up out of China.

Cheers,

Joe

ABC has investigated Chinese who are contributing to Australian political parties and influencing politicians.
Bob Carr has an interesting part to play in many of the places investigated.
Worth an article..... or four...

LEGO,
I know I am bothering you, but this is what I wanted to mean:
Japanese militarists would have pounced on the United State in July 1937 from the beginning if they had wanted to build peace by Japan in East Asia, no matter how stupid they were, without making a very long detour of first doing it on China and exhausting themselves in a waste of resources and energy for four protracted years.

To use the chicken or egg first metaphor, Hitler rose to power in 1933 and nazified German society first before embarking on his project, and then started war as it was his wish; it was the egg first. Japan fell into an accidental warfare with China and the need of carring it on militarized Japanese society.

Thank you.

Hitler was betrayed by Germans . Japan was betrayed by Chinese who sabotaged Japan's cultural hanamachi odori geishas. Japan spent aircraft carrier money in rebuilding its geisha charities and had 3 large carriers and 2 small ones in 1937 , not enough to bring a full cast of singers to Madame Pearl Harbour.

The Australian carried a fascinating article today on page 10, concerning the name of the South China Sea. The sea, or different parts of it, have had many different names over the past couple of thousand years, but 'the South China Sea' has only been around - even in China - for only a couple of hundred.

After all, the Chinese were not known as traders until recently. Every other state and empire across that region seems to have been heavily involved in all manner of trade, from the east coast of India throughout south-east Asia to Korea and Japan. But China has been the recipient of that trade, not the initiator, or even the participant, in it. Both China and Japan, as we know, shut their doors to foreigners for hundreds of years.

Still, if we are to divvy out territory on the basis of its common name, then perhaps Ireland should be recognised as the rightful owner of all of the Irish Sea, India of the Indian Ocean, Mexico of the Gulf of Mexico, Timor of the Timor Sea, and so on. Perhaps Hudson's Coffee could register as a country and sue Canada over infringement of its sovereignty.

Crazy world.

Joe