Re <<I must ask, what were you drinking/smoking when you wrote the post I am responding to? Just having a bit of harmless fun? asia.nikkei.com U.S. weighs returning smaller permanent fighter force to Okinawa jacobin.com Sacrificial Pawns en.wikipedia.org .An autosomal DNA analysis from Okinawan samples concluded that they are most closely related to other Japanese and East Asian contemporary populations , sharing on average 80% admixture with mainland Japanese and 19% admixture with Chinese population, and that have isolate characteristics. en.wikipedia.org Ryukyu independence movement scmp.com In Okinawa, Ryukyu royalty descendant stands firm on independence from Japan - Self-rule campaigner aims for prefecture’s freedom to choose its own security alliances and diplomatic ties - An independent Ryukyu would create a ‘recreation centre’ that would welcome warships from every nearby nation, including North Korea blogs.biomedcentral.com –%203600%20years%20agoSuch similarities are also reflected in our genetic data . The genetic difference between any of the three groups is less than 1% of their total genetic diversity, which is much smaller than that between any of the groups and a European population (~10%). Accordingly, the three groups separated from each other from their recent common ancestor only 3,000 ~ 3,600 years ago, roughly corresponding to the Shang Dynasty in Chinese history . Shang Dynasty is well within the recorded history of China China China per VIDEO bloomberg.com VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO VIDEO and all the current hot conflicts just so much footnotes. Assessing China’s and Russia’s Arctic Ambitions Assessing China’s and Russia’s Arctic AmbitionsInsights from Kristina Spohr.
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nssaspace.org For example, the PRC could establish an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in cislunar space, declare a Space Defense Identification Zone (SDIZ) and “keep out” zones to protect it, conduct in-situ resource utilization to support operations on the lunar surface, and extract valuable resources such as rare Earth materials and "edition.cnn.com The State Department said in its response to questions that the US would need to establish maritime boundaries in the future with Canada, the Bahamas and Japan where their claims overlap. US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources US Claims Huge Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for ResourcesState Department releases new extended continental shelf map Claims stretch into Arctic, a potentially resource-rich area Russia’s Next Standoff With the West Is in the Oil-Rich Arctic announcement earlier this week maps the outer reaches of the US continental shelf, the country’s land territory under the sea. Under international law, countries have economic rights to natural resources on, and under, the seabed floor based on the boundaries of their continental shelves.Rebecca Pincus , director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, which has devoted an entire web page to the ramifications of this week’s news. “It’s US sovereignty over the seabed floor, and so whether it’s seabed mining, or oil and gas leasing, or cables, or what have you, the US is announcing the borders of its ECS and will have sovereignty over those decisions.”article this week. The extension “highlights American strategic interests in securing these hard minerals on its seabed and subsoil, lying sometimes hundreds of miles offshore,” he wrote.America’s extended continental shelf — 520,400 square kilometers — stretches in a large wedge north of Alaska toward the Arctic Ocean, including an area that overlaps with Canadian claims to the seabed floor, according to the US statement. The U.S. ECS - United States Department of StateU.S. Extended Continental Shelf The United States has ECS in seven offshore areas (Figure 1): the Arctic, Atlant...
But beyond that, they can claim economic rights to resources on or below the seabed floor where their continental shelf extends, although not within the water column. The seas above also remain international waters. Russia, Denmark and Canada have waited years for their overlapping Arctic seabed claims to be reviewed by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, a UN supported group, with Russia the first to receive a ruling earlier this year. The State Department said in its response to questions that the US would need to establish maritime boundaries in the future with Canada, the Bahamas and Japan where their claims overlap. It added that the US uses the same rules to determine its extended continental shelf as in UNCLOS, which it said the Biden administration supports joining. — With assistance from Courtney McBride and Dave Merrill 
