China makes new islands in the Spratleys

[bob10]

How bizarre, how bizarre, Bob



China's Island Factory (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8701/index.html)

[TerryO]

I saw for myself something like this back in 95 when I was on my way to Macau for the Macau GP, back then you used to have to take a Hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong to get to Macau. I was amazed to see in the middle of the night islands of light in the darkness and when you got closer all you could see was D8's rolling back and forth flattening out these small islands one after the other and pushing the dirt into the sea.
I believe most of this water and the flattened out Islands have been reclaimed now all the way back to mainland China.

A coupe of days later we took a bus ride into main land China to some Golf resort for lunch and as we drove to it all you could see for miles on end were massive hills several thousand feet high again being flattened by dozens and dozens of bull dozers who were pushing all of this soil into the sea to reclaim the land out to those islands which were many miles off shore.

Back them I wondered where the Greens and Green Peace were to complain and protest about this destruction of the environment on a scale that is that large that it is truly hard to comprehend. To me it proved once and for all that the green movement only picks on easy western targets and has no balls to take on a power like the Chinese who are the ones who truly have little to no regard for the planet. But because they are not a democracy there is no point trying to anger the citizens to protest against government policy.

So the fact that the Chinese are now building a few new islands to strengthen their position in a conflict should be no real surprise to anyone in the region.

[BMKal]

There's an island not far off Shanghai that is (at the moment) quite rocky and hilly. Some people I work with have recently been over there arranging to supply tracked mobile crushing & screening plant for the island.

The Chinese are going to blast all the rock to remove the "hills" and crush it down to be used as building materials in Shanghai and surrounding areas, and when the island is levelled off to only a few metres above sea level, it is going to become a huge fuel storage depot / tank farm. There will be shipping berths built for tankers to come alongside and unload into the storage tanks, and undersea pipelines across to Shanghai for fuel distribution.

Not sure how big this island is, but I got the impression from what I was told that it's more than a few square km.

A major project - and the crushing and screening of the rock is being done using equipment supplied by an Australian company. ;)

[Hoges]

Fiendishly clever... don't ever underestimate them... they are very patient....:eek: