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Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Island Fever for China

Sabri Ben-Achour May 22, 2015
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Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Island Fever for China

Sabri Ben-Achour May 22, 2015
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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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