While the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and the U.S. dither, mount legal challenges and complain, China is building in the Spratly Islands. The photographs are quite interesting; China is moving a lot of sand to create a number of what look (to my eye) to be military facilities, including an airfield.
By the way, where's Greenpeace on this? Shouldn't they be all outraged about the destruction of natural habitat? |
| The Outer Banks and various sand dunes here and there are forever at risk of washing away, we are warned. How stable are those sand islands China is building? What say you, O Rantburg engineers? |
| From the photos, these bases have sand berms about four feet high protecting them from the South China Sea. They look like typhoon-bait to me... |
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