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Old 06-26-2018, 10:36 AM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard View Post
Bases have been being built for a while, what's happened on Trumps watch is they've actually militarised them and moved weapons in, why the fuck that's been allowed is any ones guess.

Trump cancelled TPP day one of his presidency, that handed China the area no repercussions and it was also the ultimate gift for Russia. TPP hasn't been replaced with nothing from the USA to slow China significantly so basically USA just needs to get the fuckout now and let China progress.
The problem is what do you actually do about it? No matter who is in office, the artificial island thing is a tough one to solve. Added to this the Brits set the precedent for it back in WW2 when they built a off shore structure outside of their territorial waters. This structure was later claimed by some random people who literally turned it into a country called Sealand. ( https://www.sealandgov.org/ )

I don't like Trump, but short of going to war what do you do about it? They created a land mass in international waters then claimed that land as if it were a natural undiscovered island.. Short of every western/asian country putting sanctions on them I don't know what anyone can actually do about it.
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