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Title: What is China building on this tiny island'
Category: World
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2014-05-15 06:34:03
Canadian

[andyt]

They're just Chinese TFW's working in the Phillipines. How ironic.

[BartSimpson]

Given that some Chinese puke fairly recently said that the entirety of the Phillipines is 'rightfully' Chinese territory then it looks like China is acting on that opinion of theirs.

[stratos]

Any idea what the boat with the line/cable stretching behind it and across the reef/island is all about?

My first thought is they are going to enclose some of the water area and pump it out to make the reef/island bigger.

[BartSimpson]

stratos stratos:

Any idea what the boat with the line/cable stretching behind it and across the reef/island is all about?

My first thought is they are going to enclose some of the water area and pump it out to make the reef/island bigger.

That's actually a hose/pipe that's used to pipe sand/coral from the reef to the island.

These things get used to build up beaches and to build artificial islands all over the world.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&noj ... RZBNs_lZFs

It's likely too that the dredge is also clearing a channel for deep-water vessels to use to supply the new island base.

[stratos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

stratos stratos:

Any idea what the boat with the line/cable stretching behind it and across the reef/island is all about?

My first thought is they are going to enclose some of the water area and pump it out to make the reef/island bigger.

That's actually a hose/pipe that's used to pipe sand/coral from the reef to the island.

These things get used to build up beaches and to build artificial islands all over the world.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&noj ... RZBNs_lZFs

It's likely too that the dredge is also clearing a channel for deep-water vessels to use to supply the new island base.

Thanks.

[bootlegga]

Who really cares what they build? The what isn't important here, it's the why.

There is only one reason to build anything here - to enhance China's claim of sovereignty over this speck of dust. That's been a big piece to our claim over the Arctic archipelago - people living on the islands. I'm sure China will garrison it with some sad sack PLA section/platoon and force them to live there to enhance their nebulous claim.

The only hope the Philippines has now is that a typhoon comes along and flattens it, thereby erasing China's 'presence'.

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Who really cares what they build? The what isn't important here, it's the why.

There is only one reason to build anything here - to enhance China's claim of sovereignty over this speck of dust. That's been a big piece to our claim over the Arctic archipelago - people living on the islands. I'm sure China will garrison it with some sad sack PLA section/platoon and force them to live there to enhance their nebulous claim.

The only hope the Philippines has now is that a typhoon comes along and flattens it, thereby erasing China's 'presence'.

It'll be interesting when China garrisons one of those islands in your Arctic that they think they also have a right to.

[bootlegga]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

bootlegga bootlegga:

Who really cares what they build? The what isn't important here, it's the why.

There is only one reason to build anything here - to enhance China's claim of sovereignty over this speck of dust. That's been a big piece to our claim over the Arctic archipelago - people living on the islands. I'm sure China will garrison it with some sad sack PLA section/platoon and force them to live there to enhance their nebulous claim.

The only hope the Philippines has now is that a typhoon comes along and flattens it, thereby erasing China's 'presence'.

It'll be interesting when China garrisons one of those islands in your Arctic that they think they also have a right to.

Well, it worked for Europe with North/South America in the 1500s.

In reality, the big difference is that Canada already has communities on those Arctic islands and has for generations, so that would be considered nothing less than an invasion under international law.

Further, it's one thing to take over an island a hundred klicks or so off your coast in a temperate climate and slap up a building or two - doing the same in the Arctic would be a far more difficult task for the Chinese. Still I agree that it is something we should be watchful for if China ever surpasses the US.

This, however, is putting people on an unoccupied island and calling it a colony. As such, it enhances their claim under current international laws, but doesn't necessarily make it theirs.

[Goober911]

A reef cannot be claimed as their waters. An Island does. Though it would only work in a Russian/Chinese Court.
China wants to negotiate one on one. The rest realize that one on one they lose big time.

Asia-Pacific
Philippines to take China sea row to court
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-paci ... 11226.html
Albert del Rosario, Filipino foreign secretary, said at a news conference on Tuesday that his office had summoned the Chinese ambassador to notify Beijing that Manila will bring both countries' conflicting claims over the territories to a tribunal operating under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

"The Philippines has exhausted almost all political and diplomatic avenues for a peaceful negotiated settlement of its maritime disputes with China," del Rosario said. "To this day, a solution is still elusive."

There are six governments with overlapping claims across the vast South China Sea. China claims it has sovereignty on virtually all of it.

Chinese paramilitary ships confronted Philippine vessels last year in a months-long standoff over a shoal that both countries claim.

[Regina]

Whatever it is............they'll hit it with a ship.

[martin14]

Regina Regina:

Whatever it is............they'll hit it with a ship.

What is China building on this tiny island'



















A Chinese restaurant, of course.

[Jabberwalker]

Ho Lee Chow

[Strutz]

martin14 martin14:

Regina Regina:

Whatever it is............they'll hit it with a ship.

What is China building on this tiny island'

A Chinese restaurant, of course.

And a corner store.

[Jabberwalker]

Strutz Strutz:

martin14 martin14:

Regina Regina:

Whatever it is............they'll hit it with a ship.

What is China building on this tiny island'

A Chinese restaurant, of course.

And a corner store.

... with a hand laundry out back ...