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## Forkonomy() - ver4 @ Graz

How to buy/own/mint one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea?

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<!--15 mins participant arrival-->
<!--distribute water-->

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## 1 👋🇼‌🇪‌🇱‌🇨‌🇴‌🇲‌🇪‌🙋

How to buy/own/mint one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea? (guided by such a speculative question that takes the figurative and pirated material— the South China Sea as our object of study)

##### tags: `geopolitics`,`FLOSS`, `commons`, `ownership`, `transaction`, `water`, `queering`

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZJD4yYn.png" width="500">

<small>Image credit: Pete</small>

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## 2.1 👋Who are we (subject position)?

<!--Winnie-->
- Winnie (HK🇭🇰) & Tzutung (TW🇹🇼)
- background
- why the Taiwan and Hong Kong situations bring us together and do Forkonomy()?

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## 2.3 Context - why South China Sea?

<img src="https://www.graphicnews.com/media/GN/34488/W/jpg/EN" width="350">

<small>boundaries are constructed only in relation to land: three-mile zone and the two 12 miles international boundaries follow the coast line (UNCLOS 10 December 1982).</small>

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## 2.3.1 South China Sea Politics

==Why choosing South China Sea as a figurative and pirated object (of study) to think about forkonomy, digital commons and piracy?==

- Geopolitical site & colonial power (not only about the sea but natural resources e.g huge oil and gas reserves, economic trade, international relations, space, rights/power struggles)
- the sea gives an enormous trade value, military value, and world power.
- Indigenous territory issues (land/Sea/rights/ownership/contract)
- Buying/Owning (contract/licensing)
- Commoning (beyond privatized and state-owned property)
- resource for the communities
- grassroots
- code of conduct: how to operate in a fair, open, diverse, and more equal fashion

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## 2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/RtmAq9m.jpg" width="600">

<small> the note for deciding the sea water average price </small>

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## 2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan
<!--code of conduct and ownership type and set price -->
<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJsS0VJxp.png" width="400">

<small> the ownership style of the South China Sea water </small>

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## 2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/T8mWyci.png" width="350">

<small> the decided price for 1ml of the South China Sea water is 1.61 NTD = 0.047 euro </small>

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## 2.5 Exhibition - ver 2 in Taiwan

<!--NFT and get as many co-owners as possible -->

(https://hackmd.io/@siusoon/forkonomy_ver2)
<!--Winnie-->

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/Zj1Ob4q.png" width="500">

==What does it mean by mining and co-owning one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea (beyond Taiwan context)?==

- NFT: Based upon ver 1's agreed price and co-owned type
- decentralized network and protocols
- selling 1 millilitre of water (ownership via contract)
- contract (EN, CN, Code)
- unlimited edition (vs limited edition) -> unlimited water owners
- challenge the notion of privatized assets in the capitalistic economy

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## 2.6 Workshop - ver 3 in South Korea

<!--building alliances and solidarities-->

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/adk6rjC.png" width="350">

<small>what is our mutual connection with the sea?</small>

[The expansion of our committee 👈](https://hackmd.io/@forkonomy/ContractOwnerPage)

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## 2.4 Workshop - ver 4 in Graz

<!--Beyond the attentiom of power asymmetries, we want to dig deeper into military agression/strategy to see how this may change our perception of ownership + building alliances-->

Rundown 𓆡🌊🐬 🐳𓆝𓆟𓆜𓆛𓆞🌊🦈🐡🐟🐠

| Time | Item |
| -------- | -------- |
| 1400-1415 | Getting the seawater |
| 1415-1435 | Intro and context |
|1435-1455 |Forkonomy() Meditation Guide |
|BREAK|
|1515-1530 |Military aggression/strategy |
|1530-1610 | To buy or not to buy? -- Contract signing |
|1610-1630 | Counter reaction strategies |
|1630-1700 | Discussion / wrap up |

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## 2.5 Introduction (10 mins)

<img src="https://siusoon.net/gallery/albums/forkonomy/Screenshot-2022-08-30-at-12.24.17.png" width=400>

What's your name and pronoun?
Why you want to join this workshop?
What's your relation with the Sea?
<small> 30 sec / person </small>

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## 3 Forkonomy() Meditation Guide (20 mins)

==play the audio guide==

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BREAK (15 mins)

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## 4.1 Brief Recap Military Strategy (10 mins)
<img src="http://siusoon.net/gallery/albums/forkonomy/51716180712_fc4abebf10_c.jpg" width=500>

How did you feel about the meditation?
What have you heard just now?
<small> 30 sec / person </small>
<!--Seeing the bottle -->

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## 4.2 Introducing Military Aggression/Strategy

> Since 2009, China has advanced its territorial claims in this region through a variety of tactics—such as reclaiming land, militarizing islands it controls, and using legal arguments and diplomatic influence—without triggering a serious confrontation with the United States or causing a regional backlash.

<small>ref: https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea</small>

1. Establishing additional territories
2. Harrassing
3. Disinformation and Fake narration
4. Enhancing military equipments and economic alliances

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## 4.2.1 Establishing additional territories

<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1_YJ1Jxp.png" width=400>

narration and mapping:

- creation of 2 new municipal districts & building artificial islands (governing the Paracel and Spratly islands)
- declare an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) around the Spratly island
- Building airports, stores and military infrastructure on the islands
- [The Nine-dash line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line): as a means of coercing other competing claimants to accept these Beijing-mandated boundaries.

<small>ref image: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-u-s-and-chinas-nine-dash-line-ending-the-ambiguity/; https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/12/151215_special_south_china_sea_islands; https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/</small>

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## 4.2.1 cont'

<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rkydTRR16.png" width=700>

radio message:

from China: "China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment"

from US (pilot): "I am a sovereign immune United States naval aircraft conducting lawful military activities beyond the national airspace of any coastal state [...] Exercising these rights is guaranteed by international law and I am operating with due regard to the rights and duties of all states"

<small>ref: https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/</small>

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## 4.2.2 Harrassing

From Military airforce to oil, gas platform & fishing area harrassmenet

<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HysJGyJg6.jpg" width=400>
<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1Mvbkyx6.jpg" width=400>

<!--the Chinese fisherman are also the spies-->

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## 4.2.2 Harrassing

The timing and the frequency of the harrassment
<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H11jfy1lp.png" width=600>

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## 4.2.3 Disinformation and Fake

Referecing literatures, archiological evidence as well as blurring the history between ROC and PRC to claim that China is the earliest country that had found and use the South China Sea:
<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1TvVykxa.jpg" width=500></small>

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## 4.2.3 Disinformation and Fake

Information Warfare and Perception Management
<img src="https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJLu8J1xp.jpg" width=400>

<small>ref:https://www.thesouthchinasea.org.cn/</small>

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## 4.2.4 Enhancing military equipments and economic alliances

<img src="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/chinese-navy-1280x720.jpg" width=400>

- Naval Modernization <!-- China has been investing heavily in modernizing its naval capabilities, including the construction of advanced warships, submarines, and aircraft carriers. This modernization enhances China's ability to control and secure its maritime interests, including in the South China Sea.-->
- Air Defense and Anti-Ship Systems <!--China has deployed advanced air defense systems and anti-ship missile batteries on its artificial islands and coastline in the South China Sea. These systems aim to deter or repel any foreign military activity near its claimed territories.-->
- Building strategic partnerships: as of 2022, China has established 110 strategic partnerships <!--china has built partnerships with neighboring countries through diplomatic initiatives, economic investments, and joint military exercises. This approach aims to foster cooperation while potentially diminishing the willingness of these countries to align with other powers.-->

<small>ref: https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/naval-news/naval-news-archive/2020/august/8808-china-naval-modernization-becomes-top-focus-of-us-navy-plans.html; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481221127571</small>

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## 4.3 To buy or not to buy? (20 mins)

<!--Distributing the note for estimating the price for 1ml/ South China Sea.-->

digraph G {

"Forkonomy()" -> "to buy";
"Forkonomy()" -> "not to buy";

"to buy" -> "Preperation Comitee" -> "Co-decide\n the price and management protocol" ->"other";

"not to buy" -> "Pour back your water" -> "other"; 

"other" -> "collective action?";
}

<!--
- What do you think of the price of the 1.61 TWD / 1 ml of the South China Sea?
- Do you want to co-own the sea by buying 1 ml of the water?
- Ownership: private, co-owned, nation owned?
- signing contract
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## 4.5 Additional response: Drawing and Sharing (15-20 mins)

What forms of collective/activist/individual/artistic actions that you want to respond to the military aggression?

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## 5. Concluding ...

<img src="https://siusoon.net/gallery/albums/forkonomy/50737776432_ed95b8bb50_c.jpg" width=400>
<img src="https://siusoon.net/gallery/albums/forkonomy/Screenshot-2022-08-30-at-12.24.04.png" width=400>

The South China Sea Cooperative Preparation committee: https://hackmd.io/@forkonomy/ContractOwnerPage

<!--- How to link the discussion between different version of the participants?-->
- How to link the preperation commitee members?
- How to manage this organization?
- What agency do co-owners have?
- How would you document your voice?
- What platform should we use?

<!--Reddit or other (how do they think of the platform)
how to document this? -->

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## Unfinished

🙏Thank you for supporting the project🙏

https://hackmd.io/@forkonomy/forkonomy4

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<!--
- [ ] Co-opt 合作社共有
- This seawater is owned collectively by the ++group (TBD)++. When there is a need to transfer ++ownership (TBD)++, it requires a joint decision by the ++group++.
此海水為++群體(待定義)++ 共有，當須轉換 ++所有權(待定義)++ 時，需要++群體++共同決定.
- ++Conditions for joint decision++.
++共同決定的條件++。

- [ ] Private-Own 私有財產
- This seawater is owned solely by the winning bidder.
此海水為僅為得標者所有。

- [ ] State-Own 國家擁有
- This seawater is owned by the nation (countries with maritime disputes include: China, Taiwan, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam), and the winning bidder must apply for ownership from the nation.
此海水為國家（具有海權爭議的國家包括：中國、台灣、菲律賓、汶萊、印尼、馬來西亞、越南）所有，得標者需向國家申請所有權。

- [ ] Own by Others 擁有權屬他人
- This seawater is not owned by anyone present; the winning bidder engages in piracy and acts of thievery.
此海水非為現場人所有，得標者為瓢竊及海盜行為。

- Does Taiwan need to comply with the United Nations' Law of the Sea Convention?
台灣是否需要遵守聯合國的海洋公約？

- [ ] Other 其他方式
- Pending definition by on-site participants.
待現場參與者定義。

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