Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal...
by Nomentatus on Saturday May 19, 2018 @11:57PM
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Other Western nations came in after that. Interesting history. Then finally China and Japan got interested. I've read a book entirely devoted to the history of the island.
Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal...
by forapurpose on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:54PM
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> Other Western nations came in after that.
Which ones and when? I'm pretty certain that isn't the case.
Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal...
by Nomentatus on Sunday May 20, 2018 @07:44PM
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Spain had colonized it earlier still. But my point of course was that the Europeans were the first colonizers.
Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal...
by forapurpose on Sunday May 20, 2018 @08:58PM
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It was at essentially the same time and they were driven out by the Dutch, and thus didn't seem worth mentioning. Regarding the rest, I stand by what I said above.
Re:China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first hal...
by Nomentatus on Monday May 21, 2018 @11:16AM
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So I said colonizing; were you just vehemently agreeing the whole time, and "settlement" to you means "mass migration?"
I don't think any Western country settled Taiwan, ever. The Netherlands controlled it for ~40 years in the 17th century, but that's as close as it comes. Taiwan was a frontier of China, with a native population, for much of history. Exiles of all sorts would set up there.
Japan (not a Western country) effective forced China to cede it at the end of the 19th century, and ruled Taiwan until losing it in WWII.
A few years later, the latest exiles, the Nationalists, fled there upon losing the civil war with the Communists. The government they created has controlled Taiwan since then.