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China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization

China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization

What was a submerged reef a year ago is now a 1,500 acre artificial island with a large runway under construction, as China's militarization of the South China Sea accelerates.
Ian Ellis-Jones (TWZ)
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in reply to Carlos Solís
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moldy_rice

Beijing has built up multiple artificial islands as military bases, and has used them to press its territorial claims and confront its neighbors across the nine-dash line, in strict defiance of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)


Sounds like not a loophole, but just an outright violation

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moldy_rice

In less than a year, the PRC dredged more than a million tons of sand to reclaim approximately 1,500 acres of land. The teardrop-shaped island is now 3.7 miles long


That's insane. I wish big superpowers would do this sort of thing to help island nations that are disappearing due to their historic pollution.

Instead we only do this for the military, which is responsible for enormous emissions causing sea level rise :(