Wait for Tsai and the DPP to run into hard times. Stop supporting unification once and for all. Emphasize support for capital punishment (one of the few issues where the KMT is more popular than the DPP) Rename itself the Taiwan Nationalist Party. Bolster its traditional support base of military, p…

[image] RandomName: Japan didn’t occupy them before France. Both China and Japan protested when France annexed them… but neither occupied the islands. Japanese government and private businesses were operating on the islands, that’s why the French send ships to drive them out. From French wik…

[image] RandomName: You are looking at the wrong issue though. You can’t claim on one hand to be a victim of imperialism then also insist to be enriched by the same imperialism… Japan gained Formosa and Pescadores permanently through an international treaty. Since when have I complained abou…

Individuals exploiting resources is not occupation.

[image] RandomName: Individuals exploiting resources is not occupation. ‘Occupation’ being legally an original means of peaceably acquiring sovereignty over territory otherwise than by cession or succession, it was a cardinal condition of a valid ‘occupation’ that the territory should be ter…

Who said they were living there? I’m guessing it wasn’t fulltime occupation. And those individuals were not state actors.

Thanks for asking Gemini, but the French clearly said they only surveyed the Spratly Islands in April of 1930. La France avait fait reconnaître l’archipel, le 13 avril 1930, par la canonnière « La Malicieuse ».

Vietnam probably has the strongest claim.

[image] RandomName: Vietnam probably has the strongest claim. Japan had people living on the islands first. If anyone gets to claim the islands by terra nullius, it would be the Japanese. Japan’s claims was 大正6年以来我が国人は何国人にも先立って巨額の資本を投下し恒久的諸施設を設けて同島嶼の経済的開発に従事し来った Since 1917, the Japanese…

The japanese didn’t claim the islands under such. They weren’t there fulltime. It was only after the french took them that china and japan showed interest. A bit like Taiwan in that regard… no one wanted it until the dutch took it.

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