Talk:List of flags of convenience

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Sorting
The numbers are ASCII-sorted, not numerically (i.e., 95 is being counted as higher than 639, etc). Can someone fix this? --Kloth (talk) 23:51, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Diplomatic Relations
What is the relevance, if any, of the comments that China does not have diplomatic relations with some of these states? Davidships (talk) 10:19, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It might be more clear to go back to my previous iteration that said those countries do not recognize China, and/or link to the Foreign relations of the Republic of China page to explain why. My attempt was to point out that there are ships that fly the flag of a country which does not vaildate the ship's country of origin.  (I should add that S%C3%A3o Tom%C3%A9 and Pr%C3%ADncipe also does not recognize China, but there are no substantially-sized Chinese ships registered with them, so I did not include the note in that case.)
 * When all is said and done, it probably doesn't have any less relevance than the fact that Mongolia & Bolivia are landlocked.Farolif (talk) 19:16, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm still struggling to comprehend the connection with the ITF's "Flags of Convenience", and don't understand what is meant by "there are ships that fly the flag of a country which does not validate the ship's country of origin." It doesn't need diplomatic relations to confirm the beneficial owner of a ship - nor, so far as I know, are diplomatic processes normally used for this purpose.  To turn the issue round, the well-known Republic of China shipping group Evergreen currently has ships under the flags of 3 countries with which RoC has no diplomatic relations - as well as one registered in Hong Kong!  (And the fact that only two of the world's landlocked countries that have merchant ship registers are on the ITF's FoC list is of little consequence either - there are plenty that aren't).
 * As the article is about an ITF list, I think that it should just stick to that.Davidships (talk) 19:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

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