04-08-2013, 03:08 PM
They do have a little spat over a piece of a volcano, but China annexing North Korea is an utter nonsense.
I am not denying Chinese imperialist territorial ambitions, but there is a certain protocol followed by Chinese, when it comes to grabbing territory, something totally absent in the case of the entire North Korea.
For example, first they lay a claim to a territory, very often basing it on some tenuous prior occupation by the Chinese state within last four thousand years. Or being part of it.
Unlike many other territories there is no such claim, just the opposite, there are very distinct Chinese declarations as to the inviolate territorial integrity of North Korea ....
I am not denying Chinese imperialist territorial ambitions, but there is a certain protocol followed by Chinese, when it comes to grabbing territory, something totally absent in the case of the entire North Korea.
For example, first they lay a claim to a territory, very often basing it on some tenuous prior occupation by the Chinese state within last four thousand years. Or being part of it.
Unlike many other territories there is no such claim, just the opposite, there are very distinct Chinese declarations as to the inviolate territorial integrity of North Korea ....