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if that's a bogus claim, then so's the american claim to the entirety of its contiguous continental shelf, which is the basis for it's 200 mile claim to sovereignty over the ocean.
you can't play this silly game of sitting in a chair and deciding which claims are and are not legitimate based on a vague sense of whether you happen to like a particular country or not, much in the way that you might like a type of cheese and not another.
these claims are all basically arbitrary: either all such claims are legit or no such claims are legit.
btw i still maintain that the underlying issue here is taiwan, not the extent of china's claims to ocean.
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