Getting their goat

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[fujikumo]

エコノミスト誌の解説。尖閣諸島、野生化した山羊と珍しいモグラの住んでいる島々をめぐって、中国と日本の外向的対立。この付近は、マグロの漁場であることとか。

[pho]

ちょくちょく領海侵犯されてるんだな。で、まともに対応するとこうなるわけか。

[Scatterbrain]

The goat-infested island is part of a group of small outcrops controlled by the Japanese, who call them the Senkaku Islands, and also claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu. They are virtually uninhabitable (though the goats and a rare species of mole scratch a living on the largest one), but