In the book The Chinese Navy Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles, it is written by Saunders "According to one source, roughly half, or 1.5 million square kilometers, of the approximately 3 million square kilometers of maritime territory under China's legal jurisdiction is in dispute or already controlled by other regional nations " (Saunders). This is not just over a couple miles of ocean that no one has ever heard of, this area is larger than some countries. ... The biggest island in the group is only a mile, in area (Senkaku Islands Dispute "). ...

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Furthermore, debris that is displaced miles from where it once stood whole may cause a breakdown or clogging of the infrastructure or highway systems that were created a considerable distance away from the coast for the very reason of not being influenced by coastal activity. ... Normal wind-generated waves may have a wavelength of only 100 meters at most, but tsunamis can span as much as 100 miles from crest to crest. So, as the initial wave runs up the shore it has a 100- mile trail behind it full of the same energy pushing it into the shore. Because of this long wavelength (and the e...

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When looking at a globe, a map of the world, or a satellite picture of earth, two colors which stand out from the others; blue and green - water and land - the dominating oceans and the massive, scattered continents. Water covers more than 70% percent of the earth's surface, with over 97% of it cont...

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