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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Saturday May 19, 2018 @08:07PM (#17110443)
I'm from Canada, and we suffer from U.S. nonsense and exploitation (which cost me a brother, actually), but you have to be next to somebody, and they're above average as neighbors, in this world.
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by phyller on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:36AM (#17118669)
> but you have to be next to somebody

Unless you are New Zealand :D

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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Monday May 21, 2018 @11:18AM (#17119009)
If you prefer I'll change "next to" to "nearest", since I didn't mean to imply contiguity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93New_Zealand_...

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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by lostlogin on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:39PM (#17128778)
Thousands of kilometres is too close sometimes.
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