Reported claim

“The use of historical claims to contest territorial sovereignty by Chinese academics represents a pattern of Chinese strategy to challenge the claims of geopolitical antagonists, as evidenced by similar historical claims against Okinawa.”

Strengthened after The Diplomat reported it.

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