You can have trouble building artificial islands. The Dubai Palm islands are said to sink below the waves. Japan built an island in order to win the space for a civilian airport. That island subsided twice as fast as was expected ( I haven't heard about it for a long time so I presume not that it disappeared altogether but that it is now functioning as intended ). The new Hong Kong airport built in the '80's and '90's by filling the sea between a small number of small islands seem to be a success and is perhaps the example for the developments in SCS.
China's SCS Strategy Thread
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I just don't like how the article use of the word "fake" (to convey an image of fakes in China) instead artificial.
Rising China
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Blackstone
Brigadier
It's just another dog and pony show, and doesn't mean squat. No one will be persuaded one way or the other by photocopies of textbooks; Vietnam will continue to agitate, and China will continue to assimilate. Like Locutus said, "resistance is futile!"
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
ah Blackstone.... I am a trekie so let me point out the flaw... Starfleet Resisted... and Resisted and resisted and and Oh yeah... Kicked Borg Cybernetic Bootie....
So do not Assume that Current trends lead to future results. The Future is fluid.
So do not Assume that Current trends lead to future results. The Future is fluid.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Blackstone
Brigadier
How dare you out trekie me?! From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
"as He piled upon the Whales White helm a Son of all the Rage and Hate, Felt by his whole Race, Had his Chest been a Cannon he would have shot his heart upon it." Picard in Startrek First Contact quoting a Abridged version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The Same source Khan was quoting with his last Words in Startrek 2.
Blackstone
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They'll need a lot more than that to justify running down and sinking Vietnamese "fishing" boats, because what's in the video isn't nearly enough.
China Offers First Goodwill
China says it won't send navy to confront Vietnam
BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that it was exercising "maximum restraint" in its ongoing confrontation with Vietnam over a Chinese oil rig deployed in disputed waters and won't send its navy to the area.
Chinese ships have been rammed more than 1,500 times by Vietnamese vessels since the dispute began more than a month ago, Foreign Ministry official Yi Xianliang told reporters. Vietnam accuses Chinese ships of doing the ramming.
China currently has 71 vessels on station to enforce a security cordon around the rig, including 32 coast guard vessels, Yi said. But he said there were no plans to send warships to the area.
"This is a minimal response. We have exercised maximum restraint," said Yi, the ministry's deputy director general of its Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs.
Yi said the ships were there merely to protect the rig and that Vietnam was the aggressor. However, he said the Chinese vessels must take defensive action against Vietnamese ships that attempt to break through the security cordon. Vietnam has accused China of smashing into its vessels and sinking one.
China sent the rig into the disputed waters on May 1, leading to confrontations with Vietnamese ships, complaints from Hanoi and street protests that turned into bloody anti-Chinese riots. Hundreds of factories were damaged, and China said four of its citizens were "brutally killed" and more than 300 injured.
The oil platform is located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the China-controlled Paracel Islands, which Vietnam claims, and 278 kilometers (173 miles) from the coast of Vietnam.
Both Vietnam and China have taken the dispute to the United Nations, circulating rival documents among the U.N. General Assembly's 193 member states. Vietnam has said it is considering legal action against China in an international court, something Yi said China firmly rejected.
Yi reiterated that China doesn't acknowledge a dispute over the Paracels, but denied Vietnam's accusation that Beijing refuses to engage in dialogue over the placement of the rig. China and Vietnam have had more than 30 exchanges over the issue, most of which were initiated by Beijing, he said.
"We believe that China and Vietnam have the patience and wisdom to resolve our differences through bilateral channels," Yi said.
China says it won't send navy to confront Vietnam
BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that it was exercising "maximum restraint" in its ongoing confrontation with Vietnam over a Chinese oil rig deployed in disputed waters and won't send its navy to the area.
Chinese ships have been rammed more than 1,500 times by Vietnamese vessels since the dispute began more than a month ago, Foreign Ministry official Yi Xianliang told reporters. Vietnam accuses Chinese ships of doing the ramming.
China currently has 71 vessels on station to enforce a security cordon around the rig, including 32 coast guard vessels, Yi said. But he said there were no plans to send warships to the area.
"This is a minimal response. We have exercised maximum restraint," said Yi, the ministry's deputy director general of its Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs.
Yi said the ships were there merely to protect the rig and that Vietnam was the aggressor. However, he said the Chinese vessels must take defensive action against Vietnamese ships that attempt to break through the security cordon. Vietnam has accused China of smashing into its vessels and sinking one.
China sent the rig into the disputed waters on May 1, leading to confrontations with Vietnamese ships, complaints from Hanoi and street protests that turned into bloody anti-Chinese riots. Hundreds of factories were damaged, and China said four of its citizens were "brutally killed" and more than 300 injured.
The oil platform is located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the China-controlled Paracel Islands, which Vietnam claims, and 278 kilometers (173 miles) from the coast of Vietnam.
Both Vietnam and China have taken the dispute to the United Nations, circulating rival documents among the U.N. General Assembly's 193 member states. Vietnam has said it is considering legal action against China in an international court, something Yi said China firmly rejected.
Yi reiterated that China doesn't acknowledge a dispute over the Paracels, but denied Vietnam's accusation that Beijing refuses to engage in dialogue over the placement of the rig. China and Vietnam have had more than 30 exchanges over the issue, most of which were initiated by Beijing, he said.
"We believe that China and Vietnam have the patience and wisdom to resolve our differences through bilateral channels," Yi said.