Can you pillage your own cottages? May as well squeeze a few pennies from them rather than let China get access to them if they pop borders over there.
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon