Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "The Six-Country Fight Over These Tiny, Terrible Islands" video.

  1. China’s dashed-line claim was subsequently a reaction to France’s enormous assertion. This still lives on today as Vietnam inherited and decided to continue pursuing the French claim to the SCS.
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  2. They would but China keeps blocking reconstruction supplies from getting to it.
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  3. More like Taiwan has to keep asserting China’s dashed-line claim, because diverging from it (even if they lost interest) signals declaring independence from the it being part of “China”.
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  4. It’s like a dozen Chinese bases, none of which are there by the consent of who legally has the strongest sovereign claim to it. Meanwhile the US bases are there with the blessing or at least tolerance of their host nation, because of concern what will happen with domestic politics and territorial integrity without American forces to help/blame.
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  5. China was clasically a land power and kind of scared of the sea. That’s why even into the late Qing period they were so caught off guard when Europeans came in such force from their east (not just as isolated traders and pirates), and why the Qing court would always try to put as many water features as they could between colonial concessions and the rest of China (most notably the original Hong Kong and Macau).
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  6. Mainly because European rivals were already doing the same.
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  7. The Chinese claims were only made out of reaction to an short-lived French claim when it still controlled Indochina. Vietnam inherited and continues to pursue that old French claim especially since their forever-enemy China refuses to drop theirs.
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  8. Probably because the ROC still officially competes for the title of "China", and matching agreements that the PRC made on its own signals Taipei's deference to Beijing.
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  9.  @Eltener123  Because at this time Taiwan cannot be seen as separating from "China". It's just a signal meant to keep appearances, even though nobody takes it seriously. Besides, the ROC has no official presence with Mongolia and the other nations affected, so there's no authority to officiate those handovers in territory.
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