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Chine has installed a surveillance network on the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. Recent satellite imagery shows a new structure that appears to be anchored on the north edge of the Bombay Reef, with solar panels and a radome on top. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative believes the dome to be an Ocean E-Station destined to be part of the Blue Ocean Information Network which China is building for "exploration, exploitation and control" of the region. China's interest is in claiming control of the area which is currently claimed by multiple countries and to prevent the US and other countries from entering the international waters around the islands. If this continues China may very well claim the area by right of possession in the same way it claims ownership of Tibet.
(Score: 2) by legont on Thursday December 27 2018, @04:06AM
The question is which system is better at all out war.
Assuming we can avoid it, the current tendency is to converge. In practice it means that West's population loses freedoms, while China's gains them. Who is the sucker in this game?
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.