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China having a coastline? Don't be silly. That's propaganda. Even if they did have one, who would they want to protect themselves from? It's not like they've ever been invaded by anyone. 
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I think this may just be a case of really bad translation? Or difficulty with just knowing the right term. Someone from an island nation probably would struggle to find the word to describe a...continental(?) country, I would probably call a nation on a continent "landlocked" as a brainfart myself.
Although their question about "where do the aircraft carriers go?" does make it seem like they think China is actually landlocked.
Maybe they think Vietnam has a Chile thing going on and just stretches up along the whole coastline?
I support Long Nam on the basis that it's funny
probably 30% or more of china's population lives in that coastal strip, so viet long would be maybe 3/4 chinese which is also funny i guess
500
Million
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Hell
Yeah
now the same format with viet cong and viet long xD
No, this person is just really that dumb. He's a Takaichi supporter, and his entire tweeting history is full of absolute nonsense.
The internet really does enable the people who should be investigating the most and not speaking to instead speak the most and refuse to investigate.
OP is from a timeline where viet nam kept going in 1979
内陸国, used in the original non translated tweet, literally translates to “landlocked country”. 内陸 is like interior of a landmass and 国 is country
Also if you go on their timeline their most recent retweet is some guy talking about a Chinese textbook from 1979 with no reference to the Nanjing massacre and heavily implying that because of this it’s fabricated soooooo maybe not someone worth the benefit of the doubt
Yeah, probably not worth giving them the benefit of the doubt. It was more just as someone from an island nation myself, I wouldn't really know the thing to call a not-island country, so I could see someone making a similar mistake. The rest of their tweet does show that they probably weren't just being ignorant of the term and were trying to disparage China somehow by calling them landlocked.
Japanese does not lack terms for describing the geographic situation of China's eastern coast compared to Japan. They have an extensive shared cultural heritage, including a long period of the Japanese intelligentsia sitting in China's shadow, and then a long period of them arguing against that attitude (frequently with silly arguments like "well our monarchs are gods"), and then another, and another.
They have catalogues of taxonomies we can barely even comprehend for talking about China,* and some of it probably doesn't translate very well, but I don't think it would ever mistranslate as "landlocked" rather than something like continental, as you said.
*though I should say that while some of it appears in influential classical literature, obviously the average Japanese person doesn't know the whole thing just like we don't know the equivalent for western phrenology, but notheless some phrenological concepts are in common speech and some is familiar to us beyond that despite it having much less literary importance.
I was erring on the side of "I'm Australian and I would probably say something dumb like that about a country that isn't an island by mistake" but it is different when you're speaking and misspeak vs typing something out for sure.
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Or they're some sort of fascist who thinks the coastal parts of China are all rightfully Japanese but "occupied" by the communists.
Like those Japanese soldiers who think WW2 never ended, except they think that China's coastline is still occupied by the Japanese.
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