To: Maurice Winn who wrote (137596 ) 12/29/2017 5:00:38 PM From: TobagoJack Respond to of 219655 :0))) naughty. but, yes, hawk moon ron conveniently forgets that the islands in the s.china sea are under dispute, had always been under dispute, and shall likely continue to be under dispute under dispute means exactly that, under dispute, and as such, possession is ... i do not want to finish the sentence so as to preclude elmat from charging "that's deep" regarding a sea. and besides, as to last 100 years, i do not remember team usa had admin right over a whole lot of far flung pacific islands before 1945 when the japanese militarists ceased to forcefully recruit comfort women to serve its invading armies. it is odd that hawk moon would favour japanese revisionist militarists invasion-prone over the peaceful s.koreans. and as discussed w/ hm before, per history does matter, that the usa militarists had always interfered, intervened, and otherwise disrupted per habits of empire irrespective of holding territory (which by the way is sooooo anachronistic, albeit perhaps necessary when recovering lost property until such time traceable citizenship is tee-ed up) w/r to traceable citizenship, chinese are actually at the forefront of the movement out of curiosity we were checking out some abodes in the neighbourhood here in penang (to quote jack, "this is nice"), and gad, while the environ is nice, homes affordable, schools fine, medical services good, and ambiance fab, the citizenship traders are already in force, doubtlessly disruptive, for better and worse, and residence visa pricing increasing penang city is traditionally 70% chinese since admiral zheng he times, but not marketing to chinese as the majority malay cities are. nevertheless mainland, taiwan, singapore and hong kong chinese are arriving in troves, buying and settling, even as mainland china companies are developing new cities and building out old ones elsewhere in malaysia, and the ever present china land reclamation boats are busy within line of sight making new land for a theme park and construction crews are turning plantations into industrial parks attached to new cities. i would have thought the elmat would champion such spread-the-capital developments, and he may still be so stance-d certainly seems that china is exporting people on top of exporting stuff, rejuvenating global energy and enhancing planetary immune system, and am guessing penang shall go expensive soon