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Combined population of, what, somewhere around the 1.5 billion mark.

I can’t see them running out of sympathetic merchant sailors anytime soon.

China isn't involved in naval sabotage in Europe. They're doing their own thing in the South China Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

At risk of being flippant, and I appreciate your response and over valuable contributions to this forum…

How would you know?