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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:19PM (#17110633)
Well, they think they should have more than their neighbors if the nine dashed line is any indication (we don't believe in 100 km, except for other countries so...). Note that those countries in the SCS are much more densely populated than China, and double especially where the conflicts occur (they have millions and millions of people living on the line, china has like a garrison on small artificially buffed islands).

If they do claim that as a rationalization, the cognitive dissonance to dismiss the hypocrisy must be amazing. However, I've never heard them make such a rationalization before, and I don't think they have.

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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:38PM (#17110693)
Dense, not nec huge populations -but you're right re Indonesia, it has a huge population. But isn't much affected.
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 20, 2018 @12:16AM (#17111181)
Phillipines, Vietnam, Malaysia are all very populated and rather dense.
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Sunday May 20, 2018 @12:49AM (#17111284)
None of these are even in the top ten for population. So they're all dwarfed by China. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-...
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:33AM (#17111403)
Philippines has 100 million people. Vietnam has 90 million people. Malaysia has 30 millions. None of these are big countries area wise, they are all located very close to the SCS, much closer than Hainan’s 8 million.
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Sunday May 20, 2018 @12:12PM (#17113411)
In other words, the Philippines has less than 10 per cent of China's population. Dwarfed. This doesn't contradict them not even being in the top ten.

re SCS, I haven't mentioned or endorsed any precise boundary.

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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:13PM (#17113745)
The population of all these countries is pretty much in the vicinity of seas disputed. The population of China is pretty much not (Hainan is one of the least populated provinces).
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Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal... by Nomentatus on Sunday May 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#17114012)
Which is consistent both with my proposal, (considering population), and would allow create boundaries very different from the little islands rules - so you seem to be "agreeing with vehemence" here, not disagreeing.
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