The Philippine military chief demanded Wednesday that China return rifles and other equipment seized by the Chinese coast guard in a disputed shoal and pay for damage in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea.
That “China/Taiwan” is just kinda thrown in there without even an asterisk or anything
(Actually I guess leaving Taiwan out of the legend entirely would have looked like an accident or something, and having a separate color for it would have been a huge deal and they’d have started to get phone calls, and so they just shrugged and put that down and said you know what it’s not a perfect world let’s move on)
Somehow this factors into taking over Taiwan.
Anything China wants becomes “disputed” so they have an excuse to act like bullies.
It factors into China’s ambitions to control the entire South China Sea:
Straight-up imperialism. All your ocean are belong to us.
That “China/Taiwan” is just kinda thrown in there without even an asterisk or anything
(Actually I guess leaving Taiwan out of the legend entirely would have looked like an accident or something, and having a separate color for it would have been a huge deal and they’d have started to get phone calls, and so they just shrugged and put that down and said you know what it’s not a perfect world let’s move on)
There’s also that both PRC and ROC claim the area. IIRC, Taiwan actually claims three extra dashes.