Island Fever for China

from Actuality · host Marketplace

This week, China’s got island fever! Symptoms include building islands in seas claimed by other (irate) countries. Actuality looks at the law, and the US’s own nationalist pursuit of islands covered in bird poop. Plus, parachuting arachnids in Australia.

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Quartz and Marketplace look at the territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

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