This seems quite naive as geopolitics go. One imagines China or the US, for example, would have no qualms about claiming both. "We assert Egyptian sovereignty o

This seems quite naive as geopolitics go. One imagines China or the US, for example, would have no qualms about claiming both. "We assert Egyptian sovereignty over Hala'ib based on the treaty of 1899, and Egyptian sovereignty over Bir Tawil based on the inalienable historic right of the Adabda people to live under Egyptian rule." Maybe it works better if you can afford to build a settlement there, like in Palestine, or an airstrip like in the South China Sea.