Chinese Dredger

[NickW]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-41882081

AKA Create your own Exclusive Economic Zone. Damm smart the Chinese.

Nick

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Re: Chinese Dredger

Three Olympic swimming pools an hour.

[skuthorp]

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The US has lost this battle, welcome to being No. 2.

[AlanMc]

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i'd have to worry about the stability of an island you dredged up and dumped in a pile.

[skuthorp]

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I don't think that's very important in the Chinese long term view, and unlike weathervaning US administrations the Chinese do take a very long view. A 'sphere of influence' once established does not depend on an island being washed away or not for its continuance.

[StevenBauer]

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And lookit the size of that giant sawhorse!

[Norman Bernstein]

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I believe that Tokyo's airport is on a man-made island...

Nope, it's Kansai, near Osaka:

Kansai International Airport (関西国際空港 Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) (IATA: KIX, ICAO: RJBB) is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Ōsaka Station,^[4] located within three municipalities, including Izumisano (north),^[5] Sennan (south),^[6] and Tajiri (central),^[7] in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The airport is off the Honshu shore and was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. The airport serves as an international hub for All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Nippon Cargo Airlines, and also serves as a hub for Peach, the first international low-cost carrier in Japan.

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

Re: Chinese Dredger

I don't think that's very important in the Chinese long term view, and unlike weathervaning US administrations the Chinese do take a very long view. A 'sphere of influence' once established does not depend on an island being washed away or not for its continuance.

When you have a one party state run by dictatorship, it's easier to take the "long term view". As, flawed as our two party democracy is, I'd take it over china.

[Chris Smith porter maine]

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The US has lost this battle, welcome to being No. 2.

It's not the US that lost, it's Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the phillipennes, Korea, South East Asia all of it, that lost, heck you Australian s perhaps lost the most, with your dependency on coal sales and raw material exports now the chinese can just come get that stuff at will, I can't see England saving you, we on the other hand are the market, never has so much been protected by so little.

[carioca1232001]

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Around 250 years ago, India and China were quite a formidable force, their combined economic output accounting for 50% of our planet´s .

Their population taken together is currently over the 2,5 billion mark, with China poised to contend for the top position in the world economic order; India is on a much slower track, but nevertheless the Indian economy is currently booming while China´s has slowed down somewhat.

The US is beginning to acknowledge India´s rise as a major player in the Asia-Pacific region:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/indo-pacific-over-asia-pacific-reflects-the-importance-of-indias-rise-us-official/articleshow/61519942.cms

[Reynard38]

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i'd have to worry about the stability of an island you dredged up and dumped in a pile.

Perfect analogy for the current administration.

Sorry I just couldn't resist.

[Gerarddm]

Re: Chinese Dredger

Sink it.

[skuthorp]

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It's not the US that lost, it's Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, the phillipennes, Korea, South East Asia all of it, that lost, heck you Australian s perhaps lost the most, with your dependency on coal sales and raw material exports now the chinese can just come get that stuff at will, I can't see England saving you, we on the other hand are the market, never has so much been protected by so little.

The Australian political community, and Government in particular, is just waking up to the fact that Trump's America is not the same as America has been since WW2. It can no longer be relied upon, and frankly it's not before time that Aus took a good look at itself and ceased outsourcing it's foreign policies to Washington. Those countries you quote are in a similar position and realignments will and are ocurring. It's all in the mix at present, if Donald get's a second term then all bets are off.