Brumby
Major
Have you ever managed projects in your career?
China's SCS Strategy Thread
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Have you ever managed projects in your career?
shen
Senior Member
What is your argument? Do present it if you have one.
Brumby
Major
If you have not managed one, you have no idea of complexities, timelines, resourcing, critical pathing, and management issues that are involved. If you are a in a hole, the best advise is to stop digging.
shen
Senior Member
You can do all the personal attacks you want, if you don't have a coherent argument present in a rational manner, you don't have a case. Attack the argument, not the person.
Brumby
Major
It is not a personal attack. There is a limit to what you can get from reading Wikipedia.
Yanshan deepwater port off Shanghi.
Its mostly reclaimed land and the project in total will last more than 20 years.
I saw this video a few years back on the Sydney Morning Herald but I think its a National Geographic or Discovery channel program.
I just saw the start of it again and I think it said the port is now more than 3km in length.
Very large scale engineering project.
The point I'm making is that China has done South China sea style reclaimation before.
Its mostly reclaimed land and the project in total will last more than 20 years.
I saw this video a few years back on the Sydney Morning Herald but I think its a National Geographic or Discovery channel program.
I just saw the start of it again and I think it said the port is now more than 3km in length.
Very large scale engineering project.
The point I'm making is that China has done South China sea style reclaimation before.
shen
Senior Member
You posed a question about my experience, in reply to an argument that is not based on personal experience, rather on facts. That's a classic example of ad hominem fallacy.
A valid reply would address the validity of the facts or the logical connections in my argument.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Your comparison between one right next to the mainland with the other 500Km away really does not make any sense. The logistics would be many time difficult for example keeping barge moving from the mainland to the reclaiming site in various weather conditions in which sand barges does not really do well in typhoons.
shen
Senior Member
The sand use in the reclamation for SCS islands are dredged from the local area not transported from the mainland. Those large dredge suction vessels are the key advantage China has in this reclamation race.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Have you ever heard of the saying "砂上の楼閣(A castle built upon a pile of sand)"?
That is exactly what would happen if you try reclaiming land with only sand.